Subject: The Dangers To Children Who Have Been Exposed To Your "Registered" POISONS.
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 15:40:12 -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 the following article that discusses some of
the dangers that children who have been exposed to your 'registered"
POISONS, have been needlessly facing:
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http://unisci.com/UniSci -
Daily University Science News
(Nov. 30,
2000)
Children
who have been exposed to household insecticides and professional extermination
methods within the home are three to seven times more likely to develop
non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) compared with children who have not been exposed to
pesticides.
These are the results of a study published in the December 1 issue of
the journal CANCER, an international publication of the American Cancer
Society.
The study indicated that a child's risk of developing NHL was similar
for both maternal exposure to pesticides during pregnancy (in utero) and
direct (postnatal) exposure to pesticides.
Significant variations in risk were associated with various NHL
morphologies. For instance, the use of household insecticides increased the
risk of lymphoblastic lymphoma by 12.5 times.
The term "pesticides" refers to a group of chemicals that
have in common their ability to kill insects, plants, mammals (particularly
rodents), or fungi. [I
would note these also include humans.]
"A limited number of these compounds may be capable of inducing
lymphoma, particularly when used around the home," comments chief
researcher Jonathan D. Buckley, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., from the Department of
Preventative Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Lymphoma, the third most common childhood malignancy, occurs at a rate
of 21.7 per million in children age < 15 years. Approximately 60% of these
cases are NHL.
In
the current study, the Children's Cancer Group evaluated the correlation
between home pesticide use or occupational exposure to pesticides and the
incidence of NHL in a pediatric study sample.
The study included children and adolescents age < 20 years who were
diagnosed with NHL between February 1986 and June 1990.
Tumors were classified according to cell type (predominantly B-cell or
T-cell).
Telephone interviews with the participants' mothers included questions
regarding occupational and home exposure to pesticides around the time of
pregnancy and direct exposure of the child to pesticides.
From a total of 268 NHL pediatric cases examined, 49 of the patients
had lymphomatous leukemia, whereas the other 218 patients were diagnosed with
various NHL morphologies, including lymphoblastic subtype (38%), Burkitt
lymphoma (28%), undifferentiated (non-Burkitt) lymphoma (12%), and large-cell
NHL (19%).
Frequency of household insecticide use by the mothers around the time
of the pregnancy (in utero) was associated with a 2.62- fold greater risk of
NHL for limited applications (1-2 days per week), compared with a 7.33-fold
greater risk for regular use (on most days).
Professional home extermination was related to a 3-fold greater risk
for developing NHL. Direct (postnatal) exposure of the child to pesticides was
associated with a 2.4-fold greater risk, whereas occupational exposure and the
use of pesticide sprays in the garden demonstrated an increased risk, although
not statistically significant.
When the researchers focused their analysis on the association between
different types of pesticide exposure and the development of different NHL
morphologies, they observed the risk for developing lymphoblastic lymphoma was
12.5 times greater after a child's exposure to household insecticide use.
The risk of developing Burkitt lymphoma was observed to be 9.6 times
greater after occupational exposure to pesticides. The risk for developing
large cell lymphoma or Burkitt lymphoma was 6.7 and 8.0 times higher,
respectively, after professional insect extermination.
("Professional"!)
The authors note that the most statistically significant correlation
between exposure to pesticides and the risk for developing NHL were observed
for those children who were directly exposed to pesticides.
(Someone should check the "health'
of the children who have been routinely "treated' with
"registered" pediculicide [lice treatment] POISONS!)
The risk for developing lymphoblastic subtype lymphoma and large cell
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was 10.9 times and 6.5 times greater, respectively, for
these children compared with children who have not been exposed to pesticides.
The researchers also noted a 7.1 times greater risk for Burkitt
lymphoma among these children. Overall elevations in the risk associated with
pesticide exposure were present for both the younger (age < 6 years) and
older (age 6 years) study
participants.
Due to the small number of cases studied and the difficulties in
accurately determining the duration and intensity of pesticide exposure, the
investigators stress that the findings of this study should be interpreted
with caution, and should be further examined in subsequent studies involving
larger study samples.
(Reference: "Pesticide Exposures in Children with Non-Hodgkin
Lymphoma," Jonathan D Buckley, M.B.B.S., Ph.D.,
Anna T. Meadows, M.D., Marshall E. Kadin, M.D, Michelle
M. Le Beau, Ph.D., Stuart Siegel, M.D., and Leslie L. Robison,
Ph.D., CANCER 2000; 89:11.) [Contact: [3]Anna Radev]
3.
mailto:aradev@wiley.com 30-Nov-2000
2. http://unisci.com/
Well Mr. Helliker, What do
you tell the parents of those children who needlessly develop the above
"registered" diseases from exposure to your "registered'
POISONS? When will it be
"legal" (in your opinion) to use safe and far more effective
(unregistered) alternatives to actually control pest problems without KILLING
THE KIDS?
Respectfully,
Stephen L. Tvedten
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