關(guān)于毒死蜱你需要知道什么

關(guān)于毒死蜱你需要知道什么

Chlorpyrifos is an organophosphate insecticide. It has been almost entirely banned for residential use since 2000 because of the heath risks it presents for children. But the pesticide's residue is still persistent in the environment. In addition, it is still sprayed commercially on some agricultural crops, including fruit trees and vegetables, and is also used on golf courses and for mosquito control.

毒死蜱是一種有機(jī)磷殺蟲劑。自2000年以來，由于它給兒童帶來的健康風(fēng)險(xiǎn)，幾乎完全禁止在住宅使用。但農(nóng)藥殘留在環(huán)境中仍然存在。此外，它還被商業(yè)地噴灑在一些農(nóng)作物上，包括果樹和蔬菜，還被用于高爾夫球場和蚊蟲控制。

Chlorpyrifos is sprayed commercially on some agricultural crops, including fruit trees and vegetables. (Photo: Tommy Lee Walker/Shutterstock)

There has been a back-and-forth through the years as the government has struggled whether to keep the pesticide legal. The Obama administration's EPA banned it in 2015 and then the Trump administration EPA reversed that decision in 2017.

多年來，政府一直在為是否讓這種農(nóng)藥合法而斗爭。2015年，奧巴馬政府的環(huán)保局禁止使用該物質(zhì)，2017年，特朗普政府的環(huán)保局撤銷了這一決定。

Since then, a dozen environmental groups petitioned the EPA to ban the pesticide and a federal judge ordered the agency in August 2018 "to revoke all tolerances and cancel all registrations for chlorpyrifos within 60 days." But the EPA just announced that it will not ban chlorpyrifos, CNN reports.

自那以后，十幾家環(huán)保組織向美國環(huán)保署請?jiān)?，要求禁止使用這種殺蟲劑。2018年8月，一名聯(lián)邦法官命令該機(jī)構(gòu)“在60天內(nèi)撤銷所有毒死蜱的抗藥性，并取消所有登記。”但據(jù)CNN報(bào)道，美國環(huán)保署剛剛宣布不會禁止毒死蜱。

"EPA has determined that their objections must be denied because the data available are not sufficiently valid, complete or reliable to meet petitioners' burden to present evidence demonstrating that the tolerances are not safe," the agency said in a statement.

環(huán)保署在一份聲明中說:“環(huán)保署已經(jīng)決定，必須駁回他們的反對意見，因?yàn)楝F(xiàn)有的數(shù)據(jù)不夠有效、完整或可靠，不足以滿足請?jiān)刚咛岢鲎C據(jù)證明耐受量不安全的要求。”

Prenatal exposure to chlorpyrifos can affect a boy's short term memory later in life. (Photo: mike mols/Shutterstock)

Environmental groups have argued that studies show that exposures to the pesticide is liked to low birth weight, reduced IQ, attention disorders and other issues in infants and children.

環(huán)保組織認(rèn)為，研究表明，嬰兒和兒童接觸殺蟲劑會導(dǎo)致出生體重低、智商降低、注意力紊亂和其他問題。