EPA recall on Monsanto Corporation's Roundup® Ready-To-Use Weed and Grass Killer and the Scotts Company's Ortho® Ready-To-Use Home DefenseTM Indoor & Outdoor Insect Killer5. 

 

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Subject:   More examples of "Sound Science"-----
Date:       Thu, 01 Jun 2000 09:34:52 -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 read an Environment News Service article entitled:  TWO HOME PESTICIDES RECALLED - COULD SPRAY USERS.

WASHINGTON, DC, May 31, 2000 (ENS) - The EPA has issued a voluntary consumer product safety recall for two faulty Pull 'N Spray home pesticide products. The problem is with a faulty container that could expose users to the pesticide. The products are Monsanto Corporation's Roundup® Ready-To-Use Weed and Grass Killer and the Scotts Company's Ortho® Ready-To-Use Home DefenseTM Indoor & Outdoor Insect Killer5. This manufacturers reported calls from consumers who described experiencing mechanical failures with the pump spray causing exposure to the pesticide. When the mechanism does not function properly, it may spray the pesticide contents onto the user or may pop out of the container and strike the user.

Most of the Pull 'N Spray product reports concerned skin and eye irritation associated with leaks resulting from container failures or misuses. A small number of consumers have reported some respiratory difficulty associated with exposure to the Home Defense product. EPA is working with the companies in alerting consumers to return these products to avoid pesticide exposure. Both companies have begun removing more than 1.8 million Pull 'N Spray products from the marketplace. Scotts and Monsanto will modify the containers and make labeling changes to ensure the containers function properly. Consumers who have purchased Pull 'N Spray products should return the container with any remaining contents to the retailer where purchased for a full refund. The containers can be identified by the words Pull 'N Spray on the label or by the UPC codes. The Roundup® UPC code item numbers are either 70183-58064 or 70183-58065. The Home Defense(tm) UPC code is 71549-01991. For more information, call the Manufacturers' Consumer Helpline at 1-800-225-2883.

Amazing!  Just another example of the poison "industry's" idea of "Sound science".

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