The national research council has launched a study to evaluate whether kids face a greater risk than adults of cancer, neurological damage and other ills from pesticides. Children may be more vulnerable consumers a lot more food than you or I do, says Jack Moore of the Environmental Protection Agency. Kids also eat comparatively more than adult do of particular foods, such as apples and juices. Either way, children ingest proportionately more pesticide. Secondly, children's physiology may be ill equipped to handle a pesticidelaced diet. For any given child, the threat may be tiny, but in the aggregate America's preschoolers may face an intolerable risk.