Subject: Drinking water to be checked for pesticides
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 10:07:20 -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: Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov
Dear Mr. Helliker, I
thought you might like to read an article entitled:
Drinking water to be checked for pesticides
February 28, 2001
Web posted at: 11:45 AM EST (1645 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government will start monitoring
pesticide residues in city water supplies around California and New York to
find out more about the toxins people are drinking.
The water monitoring is being added to an annual survey
that the Agriculture Department does of pesticide residues on fruits and
vegetables.
The data will be used by the Environmental Protection
Agency in assessing the health risks posed to infants and children by
pesticide residues.
Water supplies in other areas of the country may be added
to the survey as USDA gets the money to do so, said department spokeswoman
Jessica Faust. The first data from the water monitoring will be released early
next year with the full pesticide report.
In California, the survey will include water systems in
the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas as well as the Central Valley, a major
agricultural region.
Water will be monitored in three sites in New York City
and also in Buffalo, Ithaca, Monroe County, Poughkeepsie, Rochester and
Syracuse.
Copyright 2001 The Associated Press. All
rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or
redistributed.
Well Mr. Helliker, If you did not continue to demand
that only your "registered" POISONS can "legally" be used
to "control" pest problems in California, you would not have to
monitor your drinking water for "registered" CONTAMINATION.
Respectfully, Stephen
L. Tvedten
(Editor's Note: It's about time. People haven't been
buying bottled water because it's fashionable. People know something is
wrong with the water.)
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