From the Department of Things Other People Have Done That are Still Messing With Us Today: So you’re rustling up a healthy meal in the kitchen, maybe using some fresh veggies from the garden or pick-your-own berries from a local farm … And yum, you can top the whole thing off with a zesty dash of pesticides scuffed up from the kitchen floor. You don’t use pesticides, you say? You don’t have to. New research shows that pesticides linger in American homes much, much longer than previously suspected.
A little dab’ll do you … and do you, and do you, and do you. An Environmental Protection Agency study published in Environmental Science & Technology shows that toxic pesticides, some which have been banned in the United States for decades, continue to show up current tests of American homes.
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