Now to an emergency order from the Environmental Protection Agency.

The EPA issuing an emergency ban of a common weed killer.

The EPA is demanding this weed killer be pulled from store shelves immediately.

The Environmental Protection Agency has issued an emergency suspension

of the common weed killer DCPA, it's also known as Dactyl.

The agency's risk assessment found handling D.C. P.P.S.C.'s

assessment found handling D.C. P.A. products,

could expose fetuses to between 4 to 20 times

the chemical level considered safe.

The EPA says exposure can alter fetal thyroid hormone levels, which is linked to low birth weight,

impaired brain development, decreased IQ, and impaired motor skills later in life.

A lot of women that now have kids with special needs because they were working while

pregnant.

They were directly impacted by pesticide and so now their kids have learning disabilities.

Dactol is just one.

I mean there are 100 more than 130 pesticides that are banned that are used in California every year.

It's the first emergency action of its kind taken by the regulatory agency in 40 years.

Wow. in 40 years. It's emergency for sure. Yeah. Yeah. 40 years. So it's the EPA is doing

something and you know perhaps we should tell our counterparts over in the European Union

but they banned it in 2009 so this thing has been in our food supply for 15 years.

Here's the actual order from the European Commission.

27 countries have banned this.

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