Subject: Even When Used As Directed - Your "Registered" POISONS Generally Harm People and the Environment--
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:46:12 -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, Dale Carnegie once wrote: "There
is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. And that is by
making the other person want to do it."
I thought you might like to read the Florida definition of a
Restricted-Use Pesticide.
487.042 Restricted-use
pesticides; designation.- The department may designate by rule a pesticide,
or a pesticide applied under certain conditions or a certain purpose, as a
"restricted-use pesticide" if the pesticide, when applied in
accordance with its directions for use, warnings and cautions, for uses for
which it is registered or for one or more such uses, or in accordance with a
widespread and commonly recognized practice, may generally cause, without
additional regulatory restrictions, unreasonable adverse effects on the
environment or injury to the applicator or other persons.
Well Mr. Helliker, By this simple "regulatory"
definition there should not be any "registered" Restricted-Use
Pesticides allowed to be "used in accordance with widespread and commonly
recognized practice" in this country - because even that labeled use may
generally cause unreasonable adverse effects on the environment or injury to the
applicator or other persons! How
can I make you want to protect the people and the environment from these hideous
POISONS? How can I make you want to
"legally" allow the use of safe and far more effective alternatives?
Respectfully, Stephen
L. Tvedten.
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