Editing Pesticide (section)

==== Non-occupational pesticide use====
Pesticides are also found in majority of U.S. households with 88&nbsp;million out of the 121.1&nbsp;million households indicating that they use some form of pesticide in 2012.<ref name="EPAPesticides">{{cite web|url=https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2017-01/documents/pesticides-industry-sales-usage-2016_0.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170417185628/https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2017-01/documents/pesticides-industry-sales-usage-2016_0.pdf |archive-date=2017-04-17 |url-status=live |title=Pesticides Industry Sales and Usage 2008–2012 |date=2012 |publisher=US EPA |access-date=26 March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.statista.com/statistics/183635/number-of-households-in-the-us/ |title=U.S.: Number of households 1960–2017 |website=Statista |access-date=26 March 2018}}</ref> As of 2007, there were more than 1,055 active ingredients registered as pesticides,<ref name="Goldman 2007">{{cite journal |vauthors=Goldman LR |year=2007 |title=Managing pesticide chronic health risks: U.S. policies |journal=Journal of Agromedicine |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=67–75 |doi=10.1300/J096v12n02_08 |pmid=18032337 |s2cid=216149465}}</ref> which yield over 20,000 pesticide products that are marketed in the United States.<ref name=":2">{{cite web |title=Pesticide Illness & Injury Surveillance |date=Feb 7, 2017 |website=CDC.gov |publisher=[[National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health|NIOSH]] |url=https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/pesticides/ |access-date=Jan 28, 2014}}</ref>

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends limiting exposure of children to pesticides and using safer alternatives:<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=James R. |last2=Karr |first2=Catherine J. |collaboration=Council On Environmental Health |title=Pesticide exposure in children |journal=Pediatrics |volume=130 |issue=6 |pages=e1757–63 |date=December 2012 |pmid=23184103 |doi=10.1542/peds.2012-2757 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

One study found pesticide self-poisoning the method of choice in one third of suicides worldwide, and recommended, among other things, more restrictions on the types of pesticides that are most harmful to humans.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Gunnell D, Eddleston M, Phillips MR, Konradsen F |title=The global distribution of fatal pesticide self-poisoning: systematic review |journal=BMC Public Health |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=357 |date=December 2007 |pmid=18154668 |pmc=2262093 |doi=10.1186/1471-2458-7-357 |doi-access=free}}</ref>