Dr. Rauh states in the article, “Among the most worrisome findings are the corroborative results from several prospective cohort studies of children, which show an inverse dose–response effect of prenatal exposure to chlorpyrifos on cognition at 7 years of age.2 In a subgroup of inner-city children 5.9 to 11.2 years of age from one of the cohorts, magnetic resonance imaging revealed structural anomalies in the brains of the most highly exposed children in the superior temporal, posterior middle temporal, and inferior postcentral gyri bilaterally, and in the superior frontal gyrus, gyrus rectus, cuneus, and precuneus along the mesial wall of the right hemisphere”.
“The imperfect alignment of industry interests with regulatory and public health interests has been known to result in industry’s failure to reveal known health risks and efforts to discredit the scientific evidence linking exposure with negative health outcomes” Dr. Rauh concludes. Read more about Dr. Rauh's research.