A recent study by an international team led by the American University of Illinois investigated how the expansion of soybeans, the increased use of pesticides in the Cerrado and Amazon biomes of Brazil, is associated with an increase in mortality from childhood cancer.
The study found that an increase of about 10% in soy production is associated with the death of about 0.40 among all children under the age of five, and an additional 0.21 deaths under the age of 10 years per 10 thousand inhabitants.
The study pointed out that in total, they estimate that 123 children under the age of ten died from eating related to pesticide exposure between 2008 and 2019, out of a total of 226 reported cases of total deaths in the same period.
