{"id":28338,"date":"2025-05-22T17:44:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T17:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28338"},"modified":"2025-05-22T18:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:27:31","slug":"what-a-white-house-report-says-and-doesnt-say-about-pesticides-and-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28338","title":{"rendered":"What a White House Report Says (and Doesn\u2019t Say) About Pesticides and Health"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The report on children\u2019s health calls attention to glyphosate and atrazine, which are widely used on U.S. crops.<\/p>\n

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A report released on Thursday by the presidential Make America Healthy Again commission raised concerns about the potential health effects of pesticides on American children, but it stopped short of calling the chemicals unsafe.<\/p>\n

The report singled out two pesticides, glyphosate and atrazine, which are among the most widely used weed killers in the United States. The report notes that some studies have linked these and other pesticides to adverse health outcomes, especially in children.<\/p>\n

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who worked for years as an environmental lawyer, has long wanted to rein in use of these and other pesticides. But efforts to include a stronger warning about the chemicals in the report encountered pushback<\/a> from farmers, industry lobbyists and Republican lawmakers.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican farmers rely on these products,\u201d the commission said in its report, \u201cand actions that further regulate or restrict crop protection tools beyond risk-based and scientific processes set forth by Congress must involve thoughtful consideration of what is necessary for adequate protection, alternatives and cost of production.\u201d The report focused on what the Trump administration says are the leading causes of chronic disease among American children.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Each year, American farmers spray atrazine on about 75 million acres of agricultural crops<\/a>, such as sugar cane, corn, pineapples, sorghum and macadamia nuts. Glyphosate is even more widely used: An average of 298 million acres of farmland<\/a> are sprayed with the chemical annually, including soybean, cotton, corn and grapes. The herbicides are also frequently used to clear out weeds on golf courses, school grounds and city parks, and they have been used in home gardening.<\/p>\n

Mr. Kennedy and others have argued that these herbicides are linked to the increase in chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and asthma, which now affect more than half of U.S. adults<\/a> and about 40 percent of children<\/a>. The evidence for that is preliminary, however. Many scientists believe that the increased prevalence of certain diseases is likely caused by a combination of factors, possibly including pesticides like glyphosate and atrazine.<\/p>\n

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The report on children\u2019s health calls attention to glyphosate and atrazine, which are widely used on U.S. crops.A report released on Thursday by the presidential Make America Healthy Again commission raised concerns about the potential health effects of pesticides on American children, but it stopped short of calling the chemicals unsafe.The report singled out two pesticides, glyphosate and atrazine, which are among the most widely used weed killers in the United States. The report notes that some studies have linked these and other pesticides to adverse health outcomes, especially in children.Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who worked for years as an environmental lawyer, has long wanted to rein in use of these and other pesticides. But efforts to include a stronger warning about the chemicals in the report encountered pushback from farmers, industry lobbyists and Republican lawmakers.\u201cAmerican farmers rely on these products,\u201d the commission said in its report, \u201cand actions that further regulate or restrict crop protection tools beyond risk-based and scientific processes set forth by Congress must involve thoughtful consideration of what is necessary for adequate protection, alternatives and cost of production.\u201d The report focused on what the Trump administration says are the leading causes of chronic disease among American children.Each year, American farmers spray atrazine on about 75 million acres of agricultural crops, such as sugar cane, corn, pineapples, sorghum and macadamia nuts. Glyphosate is even more widely used: An average of 298 million acres of farmland are sprayed with the chemical annually, including soybean, cotton, corn and grapes. The herbicides are also frequently used to clear out weeds on golf courses, school grounds and city parks, and they have been used in home gardening.Mr. Kennedy and others have argued that these herbicides are linked to the increase in chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and asthma, which now affect more than half of U.S. adults and about 40 percent of children. The evidence for that is preliminary, however. Many scientists believe that the increased prevalence of certain diseases is likely caused by a combination of factors, possibly including pesticides like glyphosate and atrazine.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28340,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28341,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28338\/revisions\/28341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}