The National Academy of Sciences has estimated that 98% of the potential risk of developing cancer from pesticide residue on food grown in the U.S. could be eliminated if
A) the entire industrialized agriculture business switched to integrated pest management
B) genetically modified foods were grown exclusively
C) pheromone traps were used more effectively to capture pests
D) EPA standards for pre-1972 pesticides were as strict as standards for later pesticides
E) the government banned just one of the worst pesticides from use
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