Why are you forcing the Fontana Unified School District to only use "registered" poisons to "control" their pests now?

Email sent by Steve Tvedten of Get Set, Inc. to Lyndon Hawkins of the California Department of Pesticide Regulation.  No response received.


Questions have been asked of the California Department of Pesticide Control since Fontana Unified School District declined to consider a pesticide free IPM program because of the Department of Agriculture's opinion about only utilizing registered pesticides to eliminate pests.  The California Department of Pesticide Regulation has remained silent and not responded to these issues:

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Subject:               TRUE IPM vs. POISON
    Date:               Fri, 26 Jun 1998 17:54:56 -0400
    From:              Rosalind Tvedten <stvedten@earthlink.net>
 Organization:     Get Set Inc.
         To:              hawkins@empm.cdpr.ca.gov
         CC:
             Linda Jensen-Pascarella <lindap@idea4u.com>, "Dr. Marion Moses" <pec@pesticides.org>,
             "Doris J. Rapp, M.D." <djrapp933@pol.net>, Jay Feldman <ncamp@igc.apc.org>,
             Will Snodgrass <lookusup@bigsky.net>, Sandy Schubert <sandy@checnet.org>,
             Norma Grier <info@pesticide.org>, wilkie_larry@saturn.fontana.k12.ca.us
 
 

Lyndon Hawkins      June 26, 1998

Dear Mr. Hawkins:
 

Trends Noted in "registered" Pesticide Poisons Being Banned.

The first city to ban "registered" pesticide poisons of note was San Francisco in 1997, where the City Council moved to phase out pest control that used pesticide poisons.  Since then the San Francisco School Board has banned "registered" pesticide poisons.  In Spring of 1998 Albany, NY joined that enlightened group and will also phase out pesticide poison use in City-owned buildings and Buffalo and Erie Counties are considering similar ordinances.  Massachusetts Governor Argeo Paul Cellucci has issued Executive Order No. 403 that clearly states "Chemical pesticides (poisons) may pose a threat to public health and the environment and, therefore, calls for IPM programs for all facilities owned or managed by the Commonwealth.  The use of "registered" pesticides (poisons) classified as "toxic" (which poisons are not toxic?) would be outlawed in California schools and day care centers under recently introduced legislation UPI, Feb. 16, 1998.  If this is going to happen in California eventually, why are you forcing the Fontana Unified School District to only use "registered" poisons to "control" their pests now?

      Respectfully,
 
 

      Stephen L. Tvedten

Copy:        L. Pascarella              NCAMP
                 J. Mitchel                  W. Snodgras
                 L. Wilkie                   CHEC
                 M. Moses                  NCAP
                 D. Rapp                    Others

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