Study Finds Almost 200 Pesticides in European Homes (theguardian.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/11/147243/study-finds-almost-200-pesticides-in-european-homes
- Source link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/11/toxic-cocktail-pesticides-europe-homes-dust-cancer
> Scientists say their research supports the idea that regulators should assess the risks posed by pesticides when they react with other chemicals, as well as individually. They say this should apply to substances already in use, as well as those yet to be approved.
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> In preliminary findings from the largest study of its kind, scientists examining household dust from homes in 10 European countries in 2021 [1]detected 197 pesticides in total . More than 40% of the pesticides found in the dust have been linked to highly toxic effects, including cancer and disruption of the hormonal system in humans.
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> The number of pesticides in each home ranged between 25 and 121, and levels of pesticides tended to be higher in the homes of farmers. Prof Paul Scheepers, of the Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, said: "We have many epidemiological studies showing that diseases are associated with mixtures of pesticides."
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/11/toxic-cocktail-pesticides-europe-homes-dust-cancer
You can do better than that. (Score:2)
Get on our level, UK. We gotta pump those numbers up! It's not a home until you can smell the chemical waste wafting up out of the carpet! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Water is a pesticide (Score:2)
100% of all living creatures, including insects, that consume H2O eventually die. Coincidence? I think not!
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Obligatory link to the DHMO website. Beware of this hidden danger!
[1]https://www.dhmo.org/facts.htm... [dhmo.org]
[1] https://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
what are the concentration levels? (Score:2)
I'm not asking just to be a sophist. The top tier of molecular identification methods can detect unbelievably tiny amounts of stuff.
This is just like detecting "radiation". If I crank up the sensitivity of my detector, I can show that every object on the planet emits damaging radiation.
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The other side of that sensitivity coin: On what day? Is it breezy out now? Was the measurement taken right at this spot, or 10 feet to the left?
I'm chasing/learning that about the radon in the house. The visiting "experts" said that it can't come in from the floor drains. Yeah right, then why does my meter say it's 12x the concentration right at that spot?
The one that's got me is the spoon. (Score:2)
You probably have a spoons worth of plastic in your brain. I keep seeing article after article blaming cell phones for various mental problems and concentration and here we all are with a spoons worth of microplastic in our brain.
I've also seen cell phones blamed for declining birth rates, skin issues, and of course various mental health problems.
When I was a kid we did the exact same thing with TV. Before that they did it with Penny dreadfuls. I think before that it was just good old Satan.
they spray pesticides in factories (Score:2)
like carpet factories, clothing factories, food warehouses, etc... anywhere bugs could be a threat to the products they build and store, they more thsn likely get residuals on the products, still better than moth eaten clothes, or bug infested food, just wash new clothes eaven though they are clean, wash food before eating
Renaming? (Score:2)
Maybe instead of "pests" we should rename them to "our ancient ancestors". Then maybe we wouldn't be so ready to do anything (including insane things like re: TFA) to kill them.
we don't have this problem in the US (Score:1)
Because we would not have studied the negative effects of highly profitable chemicals. In fact, anyone that has these chemicals in their home effectively stole them from their rightful owner and should be paying the chemical companies and farms for all of these beautiful and safe pesticides.
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> In fact, anyone that has these chemicals in their home effectively stole them from their rightful owner and should be paying the chemical companies and farms for all of these beautiful and safe pesticides.
Even worse, there might be some patented GMO pollen in the mix.