New Handbook Available on Pesticide Poisoning
(if the government and chemical companies keep denying there is a problem... why do physicians need this help?)

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Subject:    New Handbook Available on Pesticide Poisoning----
Date:        Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:58:06 -0500
From:        Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization:     Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)

To:     Lyndon Hawkins <hawkins@empm.cdpr.ca.gov>
          State of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation
          Integrated Pest Management

Dear Lyndon,  Many California physicians (obviously) see patients who have been exposed to your "registered" POISONS. A free manual has been developed by the Office of Pesticide Programs,  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to assist frontline clinicians dealing in primary care settings with techniques on how to take appropriate histories and diagnose and treat "registered" pesticide (active ingredient)-related illnesss and injury.  You can contact the following site to get your free copy:

http://www.epa.gov/ncepihom/orderpub.html

Well Lyndon, the December, 1999 issue of the Global Pesticide Campaigner has an article by Jessica Hamburger, who notes California's use of "registered" pesticides (active POISON ingredients) has risen to unprecedented levels.  Data just released by the state reveals that use of "registered" pesticide (POISONS) including carcinogens, neurotoxins and reproductive toxins, continued to climb in the 1990's.  So, rather than "legally" allow the use of any safe and far more effective alternatives - you might as well get your frontline clinicians ready to diagnose and "treat" more POISONED people.  Obviously, some will not survive your "registered" POISONS, but that is just an example of "sound science" and an unfortunate result of ongoing chemical contamination.  The new text is in an easy-to-use format - sort of like your "registered"  (easy-to-use) POISONS.

Respectfully,  Stephen L. Tvedten.