Malathion and Atrazine are Directly Linked to Amphibian Deformities

Pes­ti­cides have been found to have direct con­se­quences for amphibi­ous life, even where lev­els have been found to be in drink­ing water EPA safe levels.

Test­ing con­ducted on frogs showed that the frogs not exposed to pes­ti­cides were free of any types of defor­mi­ties. Where frogs were tested with even the most minute lev­els of pes­ti­cides, once con­sid­ered safe and used in aer­ial spray­ings agasinst such pests and the Mediter­ranean Fruit Fly have now been shown to be haz­ardous to frogs at very low level .

Sev­eral char­ac­ter­is­tics were shown from lower repro­duc­tive health,  weak­ened immune func­tion and sev­eral defor­mi­ties. The test­ing was over a large pop­u­la­tion of test frogs.

Nema­todes, tem­atodes were found to mutate as agents mod­i­fied by the expo­sure to pes­ti­cides to pro­mote defor­mi­ties and other immune dysfunctions.

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