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4 . Missouri’s largest peach farm: Tom Philpott, “Farmers Say Mon-santo’s Pesticide Drifted from Nearby Farms and Killed Their Crops. Now
They Need Monsanto Seeds to Fix Them,” Mother Jones, October , 0 7 , https:
//www.motherjones.com/food/ 0 7 / 0 /farmers-say-monsantos-pesticide-
drifted-from-nearby-farms-and-killed-their-crops-now-they-need-
monsanto-seeds-to-fix-them/.
46. farmers were to blame: Charles, “Monsanto Attacks Scientists.”
47. full-blown resistance to dicamba: Chris Bennett, “First Signs of Di-
camba Resistance?” A g We b, March 6 , 0 7 , https://www.agweb.com/article/first
-signs-of-dicamba-resistance-naa-chris-bennett/.
48. Fields should not be entered: EPA, “Chlorpyrifos,” accessed March 9 ,
0 8 , https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/chlorpyrifos.
49. impaired cognitive functioning: Virginia Rauh et al., “Brain Anoma-
lies in Children Exposed Prenatally to a Common Organophosphate Pesti-
cide,” PNAS 09 , no. 0 (May 0 ): 787 – 76 , https://doi.org/ 0 . 073 /pnas. 0339
6 09 ; “Prenatal Exposure to Common Insecticide Linked to Decreases in
Cognitive Functioning at Age Seven,” Mailman School of Public Health, Co-
lumbia University, April 8 , 0 , https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/public
-health-now/news/prenatal-exposure-common-insecticide-linked-decreases
-cognitive-functioning.
0. Studies of juvenile salmon: Cathy Laetz et al., “The Synergistic Tox-
icity of Pesticide Mixtures: Implications for Risk Assessment and the Conser-
vation of Endangered Pacific Salmon,” Environmental Health Perspectives 7 ,
no. 3 (March 009 ): 348 – 3 , https://doi.org/ 0 . 89 /ehp. 0800096.
. EPA’s own biological evaluation: Michael Biesecker, “AP Exclusive:
Pesticide Maker Tries to Kill Risk Study,” Associated Press, April 0 , 0 7 , https:
//apnews.com/a 9073 ecef 9 b 484 be 6 cca 07 0 bb 67.
. zero tolerance for chlorpyrifos: EPA, “Proposal to Revoke Chlor-
pyrifos Food Residue Tolerances,” accessed March 9 , 0 8 , https://archive.epa
.gov/epa/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/proposal-revoke-chlorpyrifos
-food-residue-tolerances.html.
3. exceed allowable standards: EPA, “Revised Human Health Risk Assess-
ment on Chlorpyrifos,” accessed March 9 , 0 8 , https://www.epa.gov/ingredi
ents-used-pesticide-products/revised-human-health-risk-assessment-chlor
pyrifos.
4. full respect for human health: Biesecker, “AP Exclusive: Pesticide
Maker.”
. rejecting its own science: Eric Lipton, “EPA Chief, Rejecting Agency’s
Science, Chooses Not to Ban Insecticide,” New York Times, March 9 , 0 7 ,