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Subject:   Your "Registered" POISONS Are Killing At Least The Applicators--
Date:       Sun, 15 Oct 2000 10:10:01 -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 the following study:

Cantor, Kenneth P. and Warren Silberman.1999. Mortality Among Aerial Pesticide Applicators and Flight Instructors: Follow-up from 1965-1988. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 36(2): 239-247.

Abstract: A retrospective cohort study compared mortality data for 9,961 aerial pesticide applicators with corresponding data for a control group of 9,969 flight instructors. Aerial pesticide applicators suffer risks both from chronic pesticide exposure and from the "possibility of exposure to neurotoxic pesticides that impair coordination, balance, and other neuromotor functions essential for safe flying."

The study covered the period 1965-1988. The aerial pesticide applicators had significantly elevated mortality rates from malignant tumors, stroke, motor vehicle accidents, non-motor vehicle accidents (mostly aircraft accidents), and all causes of death. Aerial pesticide applicators also had significantly higher rates of pancreatic cancer and leukemia than the controls.

Well Mr. Helliker, when will it be "legal" (in your opinion) to use (unregistered) soap and water and other safe and far more effective alternatives to actually control pest problems in California without KILLING the applicators and other innocent people?

Respectfully,  Stephen L. Tvedten

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