Sources
Dairy and Meat
Organic Standards:
Organic cows omega 3 and milk:
Ellis KA et al. Comparing the fatty acid composition of organic and conventional milk. Journal of Dairy Science. 2006;89:1938-1950.
Butler G, et al. Fatty acid and fat-soluble antioxidant concentrations in milk from high- and low-input conventional and organic systems: seasonal variation. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. 2008;88:1431-1441.
Pesticides and Pregnancy
Landrigan, PJ, and LR Goldman, 2011. “Children’s Vulnerability to Toxic Chemicals: A Challenge and Opportunity to Strengthen Health and Environmental Policy,” Health Affairs, Vol. 30, No. 5, May, 2011.
Pesticides and ADHD:
Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics
Pesticides and obesity:
Pesticides and autism:
Roberts, EM et al. 2007. Maternal residence near agricultural pesticide applications and autism spectrum disorders among children in the California Central Valley.
Environmental Health Perspectives. 115(10):1482-1489
Pesticides and reproduction/sexual development:
Pesticides, Sexual Development, Reproduction, and Fertility: Current Perspective and Future Direction
Organic and Nutrients
Organic Center Report:
Grains and Pesticides
Imported Produce
Organic Center Report:
Simplifying the Pesticide Risk Equation: The Organic Option, March 2008
Pesticides and pregnancy:
Landrigan, PJ, and LR Goldman, 2011. “Children’s Vulnerability to Toxic Chemicals: A Challenge and Opportunity to Strengthen Health and Environmental Policy,” Health Affairs, Vol. 30, No. 5, May, 2011.
Pesticides and ADHD:
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2010/05/17/peds.2009-3058.abstract
Pesticides and obesity:
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/newscience/long-term-atrazine-exposure-may-lead-to-fat-rats/
Pesticides and autism:
Roberts, EM et al. 2007. Maternal residence near agricultural pesticide applications and autism spectrum disorders among children in the California Central Valley.
Environmental Health Perspectives. 115(10):1482-1489
http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2007/10168/abstract.html
Pesticides and allergy/asthma:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/738955
Pesticides and reproduction/sexual development:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1122680/pesticides_sexual_development_reproduction_and_fertility_current_perspective_and_future/index.html
DYK 25% higher nutrients:
http://www.organic-center.org/science.nutri.php?action=view&report_id=126
Grains and pesticide source citation:
USDA PDP for 2004 and 2005
Imported produce source:
http://www.organic-center.org/science.pest.php?action=view&report_id=125
