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Is There Enough Evidence of Health Risks for the EPA to Ban Paraquat?
In other words, the epidemiological studies span decades of paraquat exposure before 2021’s more stringent application rules for the herbicide, which lowered exposure—and presumably the risk. California DPR’s review continues, with a final decision due by …