Summary

The study was intended to collect data on children's exposure to household pesticides, and would have paid low-income families in Florida to record their use of pesticides and to videotape their children for purposes of later assessment.

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• The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday canceled a controversial study using children to measure the effect of pesticides after Democrats said they would block Senate confirmation of the agency's new head.
• Stephen Johnson, as EPA's acting administrator, ordered an end to the planned study, a reversal from the agency's position just a day earlier when it said it would await the advice of outside scientific experts.
• The aim of the study, Johnson said, was to fill data gaps on children's exposure to household pesticides and chemicals.
• He suspended it last November after ethical questions were raised by scientists within the EPA and by environmentalists.
• Over the study's two years, EPA had planned to give $970 plus a camcorder and children's clothes to each of the families of 60 children in Duval County, Florida, in what critics of the study noted was a low-income minority neighborhood.
• EPA also had agreed to accept $2 million for the $9 million "Children's Health Environmental Exposure Research Study" from the American Chemistry Council, a trade group that represents chemical makers.
• I am committed to ensuring that EPA's research is based on sound science with the highest ethical standards."
• "I am very pleased that Mr. Johnson has recognized the gross error in judgment the EPA made when they concocted this immoral program to test pesticides on children," Boxer said.
• On Thursday, the agency said it would await a report from a science advisory panel, a process that spokesman Rich Hood said could take until May, before deciding the study's fate.
• The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which met on Wednesday to hear from Johnson, said Friday it would meet again next week to consider his nomination.

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