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How safe your children are might depend on where you live. Today we hear about how one pesticide has been banned for household use, but affects the health of farmworkers and their children. And another, formerly used as part of Agent Orange, is set to be sprayed near thousands of schools.
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Is your children s schoolyard routinely sprayed with pesticides? How safe your children are might depend on where you live. Today we hear about how, and why one pesticide has been banned for household use, but affects the health of farmworkers and their children. Children s health is especially fragile–so why aren t we protecting them?
This program received funding from the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
