FSPH Epidemiology's Beate Ritz was quoted in a New York Times article about paraquat, one of many pesticides that can’t be used in Europe but is sold in the United States and elsewhere.
“It’s a poison, and we really shouldn’t be using this as an herbicide in the way we do,” said Dr. Beate Ritz, a professor of epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has studied health risks to people living near where pesticides are used.
