{"id":8439,"date":"2017-10-29T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8439"},"modified":"2017-10-27T11:18:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T15:18:46","slug":"california-cracks-down-on-weed-killer-as-lawsuits-abound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8439","title":{"rendered":"California Cracks Down On Weed Killer As Lawsuits Abound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Stephanie O&#8217;Neill for California Healthline produced by Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Jack McCall was a fixture at the local farmers market, where he sold avocados and other fruits he grew on his 20-acre ranch in Cambria, on California\u2019s Central Coast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 25px; color: #1a1a1a; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">The U.S. postal worker and Little League coach was \u201cvery environmentally friendly,\u201d said Teri McCall, his wife of 41 years. He avoided chemicals, using only his tractor-mower to root out the thistle and other weeds that continually sprouted on the flat areas of the ranch. <a href=\"https:\/\/californiahealthline.org\/news\/california-cracks-down-on-weed-killer-as-lawsuits-abound\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=57823660&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8M4NdE06x-hDglDLR9qByV2M3yYQZn8b4kxTI5VpRof7sTz8LLFVKK8lm0H6L4TsYTt7AahMDZ9W0y0_6RyJd4WZV9LA&amp;_hsmi=57823660\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This story was produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/\">Kaiser Health News<\/a>, which publishes California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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