OK, back with my opinion. I'm a consulting environmental engineer, so I actually read the results of studies similar to these. They picked Jacksonville, Florida, because the way insects invade houses there make it essentially necessary to use pesticides year-round. Pesticides have been through some degrees of testing, and it is "generally accepted" how they should be used in order not to deliver a harmful dose to an adult. There has been a recent realization that you can't just "scale down" the dosage levels when it comes to the effects of medicine on children (see studies of antidepressants, for instance). It is likely that the same is true for pesticides.
The EPA does not know enough right now to say "You should never use pesticides indoors if you have children under 3". So, the study. Only 70 households, which is pretty small. Looks like they'll select some households that avoid pesticides altogether, in order to have a control group. The pages I linked to said "Researchers at EPA are very sensitive to issues associated with children participating in this study. The study protocol has been reviewed and approved by four independent institutional review boards for the protection of human participants." That sounds like more review than would be typical.
I think the EPA is doing everything that they can in this study. I think Boxer is grandstanding.
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