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The bill\u2019s sponsors, state Senators Shirley Turner (D-Mercer) and Robert Gordon (D-Bergen) \u2014who moved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njleg.state.nj.us\/2012\/Bills\/S1500\/1143_R1.HTM\">Senate Bill 1143<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0through the New Jersey Senate Environment and Energy Committee with unanimous support in December, are seeking a full Senate vote this month. The bill prohibits lawn pesticides on playing fields of child care centers and schools, kindergarten through eighth grade.<\/p>\n<p>On December 14, 2012, the New Jersey Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) wrote \u00a0a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njspotlight.com\/assets\/12\/1220\/2050\">letter \u00a0to legislators <\/a>in support of the legislation, citing the recent policy position and technical report that AAP released last year. In its letter, the AAP chapter said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The NJ Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) represents 1650 pediatricians. The national Academy is a professional membership organization of 60,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical sub-specialists and pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to the health, safety, and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults. AAP recently issued a policy statement and technical report, Pesticide Exposure in Children (see attached); the past decade has seen an expansion of the evidence showing adverse effects after chronic pesticide exposure in children. The strongest links between pesticides and health effects to children involve pediatric cancer and adverse neuro-development. However, low birth weight, preterm birth, congenital abnormalities, cognitive deficits and asthma at times are pesticide-induced.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The New Jersey \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=4892\">Safe Playing Fields Act<\/a> \u00a0passed the same committee in 2011. Organizers in the public health and environmental community will emphasize medical support for eliminating children\u2019s exposure to pesticides, while industry continues to cite EPA standards as adequately protective of children. The New Jersey Green Industry Council, which represents the lawn care and chemical industry, has stated that, \u201cNobody is arguing that these aren\u2019t toxic substances, but what we don\u2019t agree on is that there is, in fact, a lot of testing and training with these products.\u201d This stands in contradiction to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=8630\">findings of the AAP<\/a>, which concluded in a December 2012 article in its magazine <i>Pediatrics<\/i>, that, \u201cChildren encounter pesticides daily and have unique susceptibilities to their potential toxicity.\u201d \u00a0 This is not the first time that the medical community has warned public officials and the general public that the hazards of legal and common pesticide use under EPA standards is not adequately protective of the public\u2019s health. In 1997, the Council on Scientific Affairs of the American Medical Association (AMA) said, \u201cParticular uncertainty exists regarding the long-term health effects of low dose pesticide exposure\u201d\u00a6Considering [the] data gaps, it is prudent \u201d\u00a6 to limit pesticide exposures \u201d\u00a6 and to use the least-toxic chemical pes \u00adticide or non-chemical alternative.\u201d See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/infoservices\/pesticidesandyou\/documents\/LetterVol.32No.3.pdf\">Medical Community takes a Stand on Pesticides <\/a>in the Fall 2012 issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/infoservices\/pesticidesandyou\/documents\/Fall2012.pdf\">Pesticides and You<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=3637\">New York Safe Playing Fields Act <\/a>was signed into law in May 2010, preceded \u00a0by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=p.a.%2009-56%20connecticut%20school%20pesticide&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CDYQFjAB&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ct.gov%2Fdep%2Flib%2Fdep%2Fp2%2Fgovernment%2Fturf_mgt_without_pesticides_final_(2).pdf&amp;ei=i5vjUJ2UAtHy0QHjxICACw&amp;usg=AFQjCNFLpVFQ-MUBlZ3v1aD0nCZJgloL1w&amp;bvm=bv.1355534169,d.dmQ\">Connecticut\u2019s school playing field pesticide ban<\/a> (P.A. 09-56).<\/p>\n<p><em>For information on starting the new year off right with an organizing \u00a0campaign in your community to stop hazardous and unnecessary pesticide use and adopt organic practices, please contact Beyond Pesticides\u2019 information program at <a href=\"mailto:info@beyondpesticides.org\">info@beyondpesticides.org<\/a> or see our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/doorway\/activisttools.php\">Tools for Change webpage. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njspotlight.com\/stories\/12\/12\/20\/fine-print-safe-playing-field-act\/\">NJSpotlight<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Beyond Pesticides, January 2, 2013) As the medical community weighs in, the new year begins with a push in New Jersey to adopt the Safe Playing Fields Act (S1143 \/ A2412), straightforward common sense legislation to remove children from harm\u2019s way by stopping hazardous lawn pesticide use on school grounds. The bill\u2019s sponsors, state Senators Shirley Turner (D-Mercer) and Robert Gordon (D-Bergen) \u2014who moved Senate Bill 1143 \u00a0 \u00a0through the New Jersey Senate Environment and Energy Committee with unanimous support in December, are seeking a full Senate vote this month. The bill prohibits lawn pesticides on playing fields of child care centers and schools, kindergarten through eighth grade. On December 14, 2012, the New Jersey Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) wrote \u00a0a letter \u00a0to legislators in support of the legislation, citing the recent policy position and technical report that AAP released last year. In its letter, the AAP chapter said: &#8220;The NJ Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) represents 1650 pediatricians. 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