Why is the EPA Still Exposing Women to Pesticides Linked to Breast Cancer?
The EPA must update its testing to better capture the effects of pesticides on the mammary gland.
This fall marks the 60th anniversary of writer and scientist Rachel Carson’s 1962 book “Silent Spring.”
The book was seminal in that it sparked the modern environmental movement, a U.S. ban of DDT, and the founding of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). However, despite decades passing since Carson first warned us about the dangers of pesticides, EPA continues to approve pesticides linked to breast cancer.
A recent peer-reviewed study by my colleagues at the Silent Spring Institute, a scientific research organization named in Carson’s honor, found that regulators routinely fail to consider the risk that a pesticide might cause breast cancer when approving its use.
