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Memoir: How the “Greener Cleaners” got started (1986)

In 1974, my friend Karen Frerichs was a 12 year old playing by herself outside her family home in Kankakee. A crop dusting plane coated the adjacent field with pesticide, but it wafted over to Karen on a breeze. Her eye membranes, which absorb pesticides faster than any external body part, took in the toxin,…