Autism and Agricultural Pesticides

摘要

The purpose of the CDC's Environmental Public Health Tracking Program is to integrate diverse data sources for surveillance and research.In a demonstration project by program grantees,a powerful convergence of data on births,social services,and agriculture allows researchers to ask highly focused questions about the relationship between environmental exposures to farm pesticides and autism spectrum disorders(ASDs)in children [EHP115:1482-1489;Roberts et al.].