StarLink Unloaded by Aventis

Farmers file Class Action Suit because of contamination

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Subject:    StarLink Unloaded -- Class-action suit filed----
 Date:        Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:33:56 -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 read two articles from the January, 2001 issue of Farm Industry News, the first article is entitled:

StarLink Unloaded

Aventis is spinning off its ag biotech division, which produces StarLink.  The company recently announced it will divest itself from Aventis Cropscience through a possible stock sale.  Aventis reports it will focus on just pharmaceuticals.

Aventis Cropscience was created just a year ago with the merger of Rhone Poulenc Agro and AgrEvo.  The new company will be called Agreva.  Major products going with the company include StarLink and LibertyLink as well as crop protection products such as Liberty, Balance and Regent.

The second article is entitled:

Class-action suit filed

In early December, a class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of farmers against Aventis, the developer of StarLink. The suit states Aventis failed to inform farmers that EPA had only approved StarLink for animal feed and industrial purposes.  As a result, farmers allowed the StarLink crops to cross-pollinate with other crops in nearby fields and mixed the contaminated corn with regular corn supplies.  Therefore, farmers who did not raise SarLink corn still had crops contaminated with StarLink.

Well Mr. Helliker, This is truly another excellent example of what the POISON "industry" likes to call "sound science".  I would not want to be the "regulator" that "approved" this "product" that now has contaminated food supplies all over the earth.  This is just one reason why you should clearly wait, until you properly test "frankenfoods", BEFORE you "approve" them.

Respectfully,  Stephen L. Tvedten

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