Subject: Throw out the Insecticides and Cancel the
Exterminator Seven-Fold Increased Cancer Risk Found
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 15:09:41 -0500
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
cc: Carol Browner browner.carol@epa.gov
Dear Mr. Helliker
I thought you might like to visit a website located at: http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/24/insecticide.htm
- there is a very interesting article entitled:
Parents - Throw out the Insecticides and Cancel the
Exterminator Seven-Fold Increased Cancer Risk Found
Children who are exposed to insecticides in the home are
significantly more likely to get a type of cancer called non-Hodgkin's
lymphoma, and the risk is increased according to how often the exposure
occurred.
Researchers compared the pesticide exposures of 268
children who developed this type of cancer against the exposures in healthy
children. Investigators assessed the children's and their parents' exposure to
pesticides in the home a month before pregnancy, during pregnancy, or while
breastfeeding.
According to Dr. Jonathan D. Buckley of the University of
Southern California in Los Angeles and colleagues:
Children whose mothers used pesticides in the home once
or twice a week were nearly 2.5 times as likely to have non-Hodgkin's
lymphoma. Children whose mothers
used pesticides on a more daily basis were 7 times more likely to have the
cancer. Pregnant women exposed to
pesticides by professional exterminators in their homes were three times more
likely to have a child with the cancer.
Children directly exposed to pesticides by professional
exterminators were more than twice as likely to develop the disease.
Cancer, December 1, 2000
DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT: It is certainly imperative to
avoid as much exposure to these poisons as possible in order to achieve
optimal health. Many readers may
however, on occasion, encounter instances where some type of pest control is
necessary or warranted. To find out more information about alternative methods
to using pesticides, visit The Pesticide Advisor page run by the Pesticide
Action Network North America.
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Well Mr. Helliker, Albert
Einstein once wrote: "The significant problems we have, cannot be
solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them".
When will it be "legal" (in your opinion) for everyone to use
unregistered alternatives to safely and far more effectively control pest
problems in California?
Respectfully, Stephen
L. Tvedten
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