Unthinkable Risk: How Children Are Exposed and Harmed When Pesticides Are Used at School

 

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Subject:   How children are POISONED by your "Registered" POISONS----
Date:      Tue, 04 Apr 2000 16:13:08 -0400
From:        Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization:     Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)

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

Dear Lyndon, I thought you might like to check out the following e-mail I just received entitled: School-IPM: New Report on How Children Are Harmed by Pesticide Exposures at Schools - there are some interesting California incidents posted.  The risk is only unthinkable to those who do not care-----

NCAP is pleased to announce the release of our new report, "Unthinkable Risk: How Children Are Exposed and Harmed When Pesticides Are Used at School."  You can view the report, some supporting materials, and several news releases about it, at http://www.pesticide.org/UnthinkableRisk.html.  There will be several news conferences about the report in California at 10:00 am PST tomorrow morning, Tuesday, April 4th. Feel free to pass this information on to local media, activists, or organizations, starting tomorrow after that time.

It looks like the report will be getting significant media coverage nationwide! Help us get it out, and make sure that it is put to good use in securing strong local, state and federal policies to reduce pesticide use in schools.

Paper copies are available from NCAP. Order from the address below.

Becky Riley (briley@pesticide.org)  
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP)
PO Box 1393
Eugene, OR 97440
(541) 344-5044 x 25
fax (541) 344-6923

Well Lyndon, no one actually has any chance of reducing "registered" pesticide POISON use in any California schools,  if you STILL will not "legally" allow the use of any unregistered alternatives to actually and safely control pest problems in California - now do they?

Respectfully,  Stephen L. Tvedten

(Editor's Note:  Lyndon, you could have prevented this.)

Please!

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