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chlorpyrifos; trichlorpyrphos (Dursban, Lorsban)
Notes:
- banned by EPA during the Obama Administration
- ban repealed by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt early in the Trump Administration, who overrode the recommendation of agency scientists to ban all commercial use of chlorpyrifos
- particular vulnerability of very young children with respect to neurocognitve development a concern not addressed by Mr. Pruit [2]
General
organophosphate
pesticide
Database Correlations
PUBCHEM cid=2730
References
- PubChem: 2730
- Rauh VA
Polluting Developing Brains - EPA Failure on Chlorpyrifos.
N Engl J Med 2018; 378:1171-1174
PMID: 29590550
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1716809