California regulators recommended new restrictions Thursday on chlorpyrifos, a widely used pesticide blamed for harming the brains of babies.
The Department of Pesticide Regulation issued temporary guidelines for chlorpyrifos that include banning it from crop dusting, discontinuing its use on most crops and increasing perimeters around where it's applied.
The Dow Chemical Co. pesticide currently used on about 60 kinds of crops — including grapes, almonds and oranges — has increasingly come under fire from regulators, lawmakers and courts.
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