http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-te.testing14sep14,1,795566.story?coll=bal-home-headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true
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And the last line of the article...Exceptions In New EPA Rules Okay Testing of Pesticides on Children
By Andrew Schneider
Sun National Staff
Originally published 9/14/2005
WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency's new rules on human testing, which the agency said last week would "categorically" protect children and pregnant women from pesticide testing, include numerous exemptions - including one that specifically allows testing of children who have been "abused and neglected."
The rules were revised under intense criticism from environmental groups, scientists and members of Congress, after the disclosure that subjects in some earlier pesticide studies were unaware of what they were being exposed to and, in many cases, did not know why the testing was being done.
One study would have used $2 million from the chemical industry to measure the pesticide consumption of infants in low-income households in Florida.
"This would be a public health benefit, even though the exposed children may experience an adverse effect."
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