The US banned a brain harming pesticide on food. Why has it slowed a global ban?

Illustration: Simon Bailly/ProPublica Illustration: Simon Bailly/ProPublica Farmers can’t use chlorpyrifos on food because it damages children’s brains but an EPA official questions restrictions under global treaty This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power

On his first day in office, President Joe Biden announced that his administration planned to scrutinize a Trump-era decision to allow the continued use of chlorpyrifos, a pesticide that can damage children’s brains. And with great fanfare, the Environmental Protection Agency went on to ban the use of the chemical on food.

“Ending the use of chlorpyrifos on food […]

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