Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. U.S. agriculture has developed a heavy reliance on chemicals to
safeguard crops from yield-robbing weeds. However, many of those
herbicides can pose substantial health risks to people, pets, and
wildlife, which is why laws prescribe how some of these chemicals are
handled in fields. A study now finds that trace quantities of such
agricultural chemicals nonetheless find their way into consumers'
homes—not on the fruits and vegetables they buy but
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