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Poisonous Pesticides
Story aired: Monday, August 01, 2005



A new study claims that a growing number of children are getting sick at school because of pesticides.

The Journal of the American Medical Association published a study last week that shows that pesticides being used in or near schools caused more than twenty five hundred illnesses over five years.

Guests:


Dr. Geoffrey Calvert, co-author of the pesticide study

Jay Vroom, president of Croplife America


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