Groups Call for Full Ban of Pesticide, Once Widely Used in Homes

Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog » Blog Archive » Groups Call for Full Ban of Pesticide, Once Widely Used in Homes: "Over 13,000 organizations and individuals -consumers, parents, health advocates, farmworkers and others- from across the U.S. sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday calling for a ban on the insecticide chlorpyrifos and a phase out of other organophosphate (OP) pesticides.