Over half of the cases involving the pesticide poisoning of children actually happen in the home and garden.
Pesticides News #48.
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Subject: PESTICIDES NEWS
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 17:15:17 -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 the latest issue of the Pesticides News #48.
GARDEN PESTICIDES:
The risks are greater than most Britons realize.
Despite growing public concern over pesticide use, it's still generally
seen as a rural problem. Over half of the cases involving the pesticide
poisoning of children actually happen in the home and garden. Despite this,
garden centres promote chemical preparations of uncertain safety. Confused
consumers are offered no objective advice on the risks - or the necessity.
The latest issue of Pesticides News takes a look in the
garden sheds of the nation and comes up with some surprising and alarming
findings.
In the same issue:
THE BAN IN BANANA: The hazardous pesticide DBCP was banned
in the US in 1977, but it's still cynically dumped in a dozen banana producing
and exporting countries around the world. Tens of thousands of men and women
working in banana plantations have consequently become sterile. Banana
plantations use 20 times more pesticides per hectare than the average crop in
the industrialized world.
A BURNING ISSUE: While the UN takes steps towards
eliminating toxic chemicals like organochlorines, insecticides and dioxins,
Britain's Crop Protection Association (CPA) is busy encouraging farmers to burn
their pesticide containers, and consequently increase dioxins, furans and other
noxious emissions.
PESTICIDES AND SUICIDES: An analysis of the high rate of
depression and suicides among tobacco farmers in Brazil and other countries.
THE POISONING OF MADAGASCAR: This vulnerable island's
fragile ecosystem may be less at risk from the locusts than from fipronil, the
insecticide that's being aerially sprayed to control them.
GM CROPS - AND THE HERBICIDES USED ON THEM: Herbicides used
in the
ANIMAL POISONINGS: Pesticides may be killing more domestic
and wild animals than the official reports indicate.
A contents page for Pesticides News No.48 and a selection of articles are available on line:
Contents http://www.pan-uk.org/pnews/pn48.htm
Editorial http://www.pan-uk.org/articles/pn48p2.htm
Poisoning an island? Locust control in Madagascar http://www.pan-uk.org/articles/pn48p3.htm
Feeding the world without poisons - The 5th PAN International Conference http://www.pan-uk.org/articles/pn48p12.htm
Fact Sheets
Slug and snail control least toxic options: http://www.pan-uk.org/briefing/slugs.htm
Fipronil: http://www.pan-uk.org/actives/fipronil.htm
PESTICIDES NEWS is the quarterly journal of Pesticide
Action Network UK. For further
information on the above features , call David Buffin: +44 (0)207 274 8895 or
email davidbuffin@pan-uk.org
Well Lyndon, All
over the world people are beginning to realize the true dangers of using your
"registered" POISONS rather than safe and far more effective
alternatives. When will it be
"legal' (in your opinion) to use safe and far more effective (unregistered)
alternatives to actually control pest problems in California?
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