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QRC – Wheat and birth defect production

October 30, 2009 on 12:19 am | In Energy | No Comments

* Chlorophenoxy compounds are often mixed into commercial fertilizers to control the growth of broad leaf weeds.

* Several hundred commercial products contain chlorophenoxy herbicides in various forms and at various concentrations.

* Chlorophenoxy herbicides are heavily used in wheat production.

* An infant born in a rural, wheat-producing county in the United States has about twice the chance of suffering birth defects as one born in a rural place that doesn’t produce wheat.

* Scientific researchers blame chlorophenoxy herbicides for these birth defects.