Methal Bromide kills mother and Sickens child

 

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Subject:   "Registered" POISON Kills Mother and Sickens Child----
Date:       Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:44:25 -0400
From:        Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization:     Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)

To:     Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
          Director, State of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation 

Dear Mr. Helliker,  I thought you might like to read a recent EPA release on one of your "registered" POISONS entitled:  FOUR CONVICTED IN LOUISIANA METHYL BROMIDE CASE THAT KILLED MOTHER AND SICKENED CHILD (Press Advisory 8/11/00).

Amtek of La. Inc., and its president Robert Case, both of Baton Rouge, La., and Sims Brothers Construction Inc. and its site superintendent, Mark Jerkins, both of Pensacola, Fla., were convicted on July 31, in the U.S. District Court in Baton Rouge for violating the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.  In May 1997, Sims Brothers hired Amtek to demolish buildings on a construction site in Baton Rouge.  During the demolition, two 200-pound cylinders marked "poison," containing the highly poisonous rodenticide methyl bromide, were found at the site.  Case and Jerkins removed the cylinders from the building and then stored them in an open area at the construction site.  An Amtek employee removed the cylinders believing that they contained butane or propane and gave them to his cousin Edith Rome in Albany, La. to be stored in her home.  Ms. Rome, 32 years of age, died of methyl bromide poisoning from a leaky valve.  Her son Christopher became seriously ill and required emergency medical treatment.  The case was investigated by EPA's Criminal Investigation Division, the Louisiana Department of Agriculture with assistance from the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and the La. State Police.  It was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District in Baton Rouge.

Well Mr. Helliker, it is obvious that your "registered" POISONS can KILL/INJURE even when they are being stored.   Martin Luther King, Jr. once said:  "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.  I find it interesting where you continue to "stand" as this Country becomes more and more CONTAMINATED!  Your silence is not "golden".

Respectfully,  Stephen L. Tvedten

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