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Better Living Through Chemistry?

Tom Heap investigates how being exposed to a cocktail of pesticides could potentially damage our health.

Tom Heap investigates how being exposed to a cocktail of pesticides could potentially damage our health. A High Court ruling in November 2008 found in favour of a woman who claimed that prolonged exposure to pesticides sprayed in the fields surrounding her home had made her ill. In the light of this, the EU has proposed that several pesticides be banned, but how might crop yields and food prices be affected should a ban be implemented?

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Thu 8 Jan 200913:30
BBC Radio 4

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