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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Tom Perkins

SHOCKING: Exposure to widely used insecticides decreases sperm concentration study finds - What They Never Told You

Man spraying pesticides on a golf course.
Agricultural workers face the highest exposure to pesticides, but about one-third of the studies’ participants were exposed largely through food, or other environmental routes Photograph: Cappi Thompson/Getty Images

Exposure to several widely used insecticides probably decreases sperm concentration and may have profound effects on male fertility, new US research finds.

The George Mason University paper analyzed five decades of peer-reviewed studies to determine if organophosphates and carbamate-based pesticides exposure correlated with decreased sperm concentration.

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