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Group Claims EPA Wrongly Downgraded Pesticide s Cancer Risk

Agriculture your username February 26, 2021 Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) argued on Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) downgraded the risk of cancer from use of “one of the nation’s most popular fumigants,” dichloropropene (1,3-D), which is produced by Dow Chemical under the brand Telone and ignored science showing that the pesticide does cause cancer.  According to a press release from PEER, the EPA downgraded its classification in 2020 from “likely to be carcinogenic to humans” to “suggestive evidence of carcinogenic potential.” Telone is reportedly used as a soil fumigant and a nematicide. PEER asked for an examination of the downgrade, along with the “composition of (the) EPA’s Cancer Assessment Review Committee and the rigor of its procedures.” 

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