Babies Are Larger After Ban On 2 Pesticides, Study Finds.

This article reports on a study which found that the size of babies have increased after the U.S. Government ban on pesticides. Pregnant women in upper Manhattan who were heavily exposed to two common insecticides (chlorpyrifos and diazinon) had smaller babies than their neighbours, but recent restrictions on the two substances quickly lowered exposure and increased babies' size. The new study being published by the journal "Environmental Health Perspectives" found that the ban had a notable effect on pesticide exposure and infants' size. The women who participate, all of them black or of Dominican descent, were recruited from the prenatal clinics at Harlem Hospital and New York-Presbyterian Hospital.