Human Pesticide Testing.....No, I'm not kidding.

Just when you think it's safe to douse yourself with pesticides, you read something like THIS

"Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT), chairman of the subcommittee overseeing EPA spending, will likely oppose a provision in the House version of the agency's appropriations bill that bans the agency's use of data from pesticide testing on humans, after EPA and industry lobbied against the House language, a congressional source says.

"We've heard numerous expressions of concern about the House language from the science community, the agency and industry, and we're not likely to follow along," the source says [...]

"CropLife America, the pesticide industry trade group, issued a statement after the House vote, calling on the Senate to `overturn' the provision." Since 2000, Burns has accepted $10,000 from political action committees set up by some of the pesticide industries top producers. In total, Burns has accepted $5,000 from DuPont, $3,000 from the American Crop Protection Association, $1,000 from Bayer Crop Science and $1,000 from Monsanto."