Even the "inert" unlisted chemicals in pesticides may be toxic. See 4 ways to protect your child from pesticide exposure. 7.1.2009
By Dan Shapley Link to full article below
As if links to Parkinson's disease, diabetes and obesity, cancer, low sperm counts and other reproductive health problems, and childhood developmental problems and diseases were not enough ... or that pesticide residue is common on foods, or that that children are even more susceptible than previously thought, or that pesticides stick around in the home for decades after being used, or that the EPA is slow to remove known toxic pesticides from the market ... now there's another reason to avoid using pesticides.
Not only are the chemicals designed to poison insects, weeds and other pests toxic ... but the other so-called inert ingredients in pesticide mixtures may be as well.
A new study found that polyethoxylated tallowamine (a.k.a. POEA), an inert ingredient in Monsanto's popular herbicide Roundup (used on farms and on residential lawns) is "more deadly to human embryonic, placental and umbilical cord cells than the herbicide itself," according to an account of the research by Beyond Pesticides. Maybe it shouldn't be all that surprising, considering that POEA is designed to infiltrate plant cells, so the pesticide can gain access for the kill.
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