Rudy Richardson, Dow professor of toxicology at the University of Michigan who blatantly states:  Caffeine will kill you at the same rate that chlorpyrifos will kill you...."  I thought it was against the federal law to compare any "registered" poisons/toxins with foods.

Subject:         MISUSE & MISLEADING STATEMENTS-------
Date:      Tue, 09 Nov 1999 10:25:49 -0500
From:     Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization:     Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To:     Lyndon Hawkins <hawkins@empm.cdpr.ca.gov>
 

Lyndon, thought you might like to read about just another "litttle" problem with your dangerous, "registered" pesticide poisons ----- the fact is these "registered" poisons are often misused and unless someone actually complains - no one knows about the misuse and/or why they are sick/dead.  It continually amazes me how many times the poison "industry" can openly violate your laws with impunity - yet no one in "regulation" moves to stop them.  The 11/8/99 U.S. News and World Report article quotes Rudy Richardson, Dow professor of toxicology at the University of Michigan who blatantly states:  Caffeine will kill you at the same rate that chlorpyrifos will kill you...."  I thought it was against the federal law to compare any "registered" poisons/toxins with foods.  Earlier Dow's director of science policy and regulatory affairs, Craig Barrow, stated in the same article:  "This compound is safe as used, according to the label, it takes a 'sledgehammer' dose to inflict harm."  I thought that it was also against the federal law to makes these kind of statements about any "registered" Pesticide poison.  Is any one in "regulation" going to do anything about stopping Dow from making these misleading and/or illegal statements?

1)TEXAS FIRM SENTENCED FOR FIFRA VIOLATIONS
(Press Advisory 11/4/99)
 

Friendly Systems Inc. of Irving, Texas, was sentenced on Oct. 27, in U.S. District Court in Aberdeen, S.D., for its July conviction on three counts of violating the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).  Friendly was fined $450,000, which will  be suspended if the company pays $150,000 into a special fund to be used for the health care needs of Sioux Indian children on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.  Friendly was also placed on five years probation and ordered to pay $9,375 restitution to the Federal Crime Victims Assistance Fund and $1,282.39 to the Rosebud Sioux Head Start Program.  Friendly  illegally sold the pesticides Tisan and DDS-164 to tribal programs for sanitizing children's tooth brushes, a use that is inconsistent with their FIFRA registrations.  These pesticides are registered and labeled for the purpose of sanitizing floors and silverware.  Friendly sold the pesticides in November 1995 and October 1996 to the Rosebud Head Start Program and to the Badlands Head Start Program in February and March 1997.  Many of the approximately 100 children who were exposed to the pesticide by brushing their teeth with toothbrushes dipped in pesticide developed medical problems, including blisters and burns in their mouths.  The case was investigated by EPA's Criminal Investigation Division and was prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Well Lyndon, the simplest way to avoid exposure to any of your  "registered", dangerous toxins is simply not to use them.  The ball/answer is still in your court, when will it be "legal" (in your opinion) to use any of my GRAS/safe alternatives to actually control pests in California, rather than your dangerous "registered" pesticide poisons?

Respectfully,  Stephen L. Tvedten.

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