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CANCER CLUSTER Women on New York's Long Island face a breast-cancer risk 30% higher than the national average. Activists blamed pesticides that farmers used to spray on potatoes and other crops, but a seven-year, $8 million government-ordered study found no link--at least to DDT (banned in 1972). The jury is still out on the pesticides now in use. --By David Bjerklie...
...organic fruits and vegetables contain pesticide residue, but far less often than conventional produce does (23% vs. 73% of the time). And when residues show up, they're usually in very low concentrations. Why does organic food contain chemicals in any amount? Pesticides that were banned long ago, like DDT, can hang around in soil for years...
...UNITED STATES Chemicals Pledge President Bush sought to reverse his "anti-green" image by pledging to sign a global treaty restricting the use of a dozen toxic chemicals known as POPs. Most of the "persistent organic pollutants" are already banned in industrialized countries, but DDT and other pesticides linked to health problems are widely used elsewhere...
November 2004. Having reversed the nation's shortages of cyclamates, DDT and lead-based house paint, President Bush wins easy re-election, racking up huge pluralities among oncologists and people with three arms. Not to mention working beavers...
While the consensus favors a fat connection, other explanations haven't been ruled out. One is chemical pollution in the food chain--specifically, DDE, a breakdown product of the pesticide DDT, and PCBs, once used as flame retardants in electrical equipment. Both chemicals are plausible suspects because they mimic hormones that play a key role in the development of the reproductive system. Beyond that, says Dr. Walter Rogan, an epidemiologist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, N.C., both chemicals are ubiquitous in the environment, and they persist in the body for years after exposure...