Subject: Pesticides Linked to Miscarriage- - - - - -
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:59:25 -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: Pesticides Linked
to Miscarriage. http://www.mercola.com/2001/feb/28/pesticides_miscarriage.htm
About 19,000
fetal deaths occur in the United States
each year, and the causes remain a significant public health
problem. Among known risk factors are smoking, advanced age among pregnant
women and previous history of fetal deaths.
In the past, few epidemiological studies of pesticide
exposure and birth defects have considered timing of possible exposures. And
now it appears pregnant women living close to farms
where pesticides are sprayed on fields may have an increased
risk of having a fetus die due to birth defects.
This is the first study to our knowledge of pesticides
and pregnancy in which exposures were in close proximity to the subjects and
the verification of pesticide use was objective, not relying on people's
memories of what they might have been exposed to.
Researchers found a slight increase of fetal death due to
birth defects when pesticides were applied near where the pregnant women
lived.
That span -- much of the first
trimester -- appears to be a special window
of vulnerability for birth defects, just as earlier research has
suggested. If the women were exposed during the 3rd and 8th week of
pregnancy--the point when the fetal organs are forming--the fetus seemed to be
the most vulnerable to the effects of pesticide exposure.
The association increased for women living within 1
square mile of the field where pesticide application occurred.
The take home message is clear:
Living close to
areas where agricultural pesticides are applied will boost the risk of fetal
death due to birth defects.
Epidemiology March 2001;22:148-156
DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:
You don't need to have a medical degree to know that
anything that kills insects and other living creatures is not likely to be
very good for developing babies. One of the most important things a pregnant
woman can do is avoid this chemicals as if her baby's life depended on it. I
would also encourage you to review the first link for practical alternatives
to pesticides.
Well Mr. Helliker, it is my opinion that until you
allow the use of unregistered alternatives in California you will continue to
boost the risk of fetal death due to birth defects.
When will it be "legal" (in your opinion) to use safe and far
more effective (unregistered) alternatives to actually control pest problems
in California?
Respectfully, Stephen
L. Tvedten
From Steve - Quotes to Ponder:
"The
first task is population control at home. How do we go about it? Many of my
colleagues feel that some sort of compulsory birth regulation would be
necessary to achieve such control. One plan often mentioned involves the
addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food. Doses of
the antidote would be carefully rationed by the government to produce the
desired population size." — Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb, p.135
"A
total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels,
would be ideal." — Ted Turner - CNN founder and UN supporter - quoted
in The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, June '96
"Childbearing
[should be] a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a
government license ... All potential parents [should be] required to use
contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen
for childbearing." — David Brower - first Executive Director of the
Sierra Club; founder of Friends of the Earth; and founder of the Earth Island
Institute - quoted by Dixie Lee Ray, Trashing the Planet, p.166
"Truth
is not what is; truth is what people perceive it to be." -- Adolf Hitler,
Propaganda Maxim
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