接觸殺蟲劑被發現降低智力

接觸殺蟲劑被發現降低智力
Pesticide Exposure Found to Lower Intelligence
Anthony Gucciardi
Activist Post
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Translation by Autumnson Blog

Pesticides, ubiquitous among not only the food supply but farms and homes worldwide, have been found to be creating lasting changes in overall brain structure — changes that have been linked to lower intelligence levels and decreased cognitive function.
農藥殺蟲劑已被發現，不僅在糧食供應而且是世界各地的農場和家庭之中無處不在，在整體大腦結構創造持久的改變 - 即已被聯繫到降低智力水平和減退認知功能的改變。
Previously linked in scientific research to the massive obesity crisis, pesticides are now known to impact the mind in ways that are still not entirely understood.
此前在科研方面被聯繫到大量的肥胖危機，農藥目前已知道影響頭腦，以仍然沒有完全理解的方式。
Despite these findings, they are continually touted as safe by the profit-hungry chemical industry.
儘管有這些發現，它們由餓盈利的化工行業繼續吹捧為安全的。
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, observed pregnant mothers in New York who were exposed to a pesticide known as chlorpyrifos (CPF). Banned in 2001 from household use, the chemical is still used worldwide in agriculture.
由國家科學院的論文集中出版的研究，觀察接觸農藥毒死蜱（CPF）的紐約孕婦，CPF在2001年已禁止家庭使用，但化學物仍使用於世界性的農業。
That’s right, this is a chemical that is not permitted to be used in your home, though it is perfectly fine to spray on your food. What the researchers found was that women who had higher levels of CPF had children with ”significant abnormalities” in brain structure compared to mothers with lower exposure levels.
那是正確的，這是一種不被允許用於你家中的化學物質，雖然噴灑你的食物上它是完全良好的。研究人員所發現的是，有較高水平CPF的婦女的兒童會在大腦結構中有“重大的異常”，
相比有較低接觸水平的母親。
Perhaps the most startling finding by the academic team is that all of the women in the study, of which there were 369 total, were actually below the US-established thresholds of acute exposure. Therefore, even low to moderate levels of exposure can seriously impact brain function.
也許學術團隊最驚人的發現是，所有在研究中的婦女共369人，都實際上低於美國既定的急性接觸門檻。因此，即使是低到温和接觸水平，仍能嚴重影響大腦的功能。
Lead researcher, Virginia Rauh, a professor at the Mailman School of Public Health, summarized the findings:

Toxic exposure during this critical period can have far-reaching effects on brain development and behavioral functioning.
The findings will certainly cause a ripple in the pesticide industry, though the larger issue is why this pesticide is being used in your food after it was banned from being used indoors.

If the pesticide is damaging by simply being used in the same living space as human, how could it be considered safe to put into your body?

http://www.activistpost.com/2012/05/pesticide-exposure-found-to-lower.html

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