A new study shows farmers and farm workers are at more than twice the normal risk for melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer, if they used one of six common pesticides on vegetables, nuts and fruits.
Consumers are at risk too from direct exposure to at least one of these toxic chemicals, since one of the linked pesticides, carbaryl, is marketed as Sevin (manufactured by Bayer) for home garden use.
Researchers did not study the links between rates of melanoma and consumers of pesticide treated produce. Nonetheless, notice how the Sevin product website advertises its “wash-off resistance”… worrisome for the average consumer of vegetables, fruits and nuts treated with Sevin.
Louis Wertz 