Children's Health Defense Proposed Iaws in Iowa and other farm states would bar people from suing pesticide manufacturers for failing to warn them of health risks associated with their products, as long as the product labels are approved by the EPA.
Pesticide companies’ efforts to push through laws that could block litigation against them are igniting battles in several U.S. farm states and pitting some farm groups against each other.
Laws have been introduced in at least eight states so far and drafts are circulating in more than 20 states, backed by a deluge of advertising supporting the measures.
The fight is particularly fierce now in Iowa, where opponents call the pesticide-backed proposed law, the “Cancer Gag Act,” due to high levels of cancer in Iowa that many fear are linked to the state’s large agricultural use of pesticides.
Iowa has the second-highest rate of new cancer cases in the U.S. and the fastest-growing cancer rate.
Organizers against the Iowa bill are planning a rally at the state capitol on Feb. 10 after the state senate voted Feb. 5 to advance the measure.
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