Posted AT 12:05 AM EDT on 21/06/07
Pesticides poison 6,000 Canadians a year, report says
Pesticides poison more than 6,000 Canadians every year and almost half of them are children younger than 6, the David Suzuki Foundation says after reviewing poison control records across the country.
In a report to be released Thursday, the environmental non-profit organization calls on the federal government to create a national database to accurately record the number of poisonings.
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