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On Brazilians’ exposure to pesticides, one thing’s for certain: Farmland is expanding.

  Brazil is the world’s largest consumer of pesticides. But how dangerous are they to Brazilians? A new study out in the journal Chemosphere implies that pesticides are carcinogenic to Brazilians by showing a positive correlation between pesticide sales and colon cancer mortality rates in the country. But the authors – who hail from University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, the U.K.’s University of Central Lancashire, … Continue reading On Brazilians’ exposure to pesticides, one thing’s for certain: Farmland is expanding.