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Contamination:

1994 - Milk from 9 1080 poisoned cows got into Kiwis Co-op Dairies Ltd processing system. The milk, from a Carterton dairy farm, got into Kiwi's tanker collection. MAF and MOH officials kept the case under wraps untill June 11, six weeks after the event. Paul Marra, of Kiwi, said the milk was processed into milk powder. The Ministry of Health's director of Public Health, Gillian Durham, said there was no risk to those who drank it. (Rural News)

QUESTION: Can Gillian Durham tell us what a safe amount of 1080 contaminated milk is for pregnant women?

The Wairarapa Community Health Council called for an investigation as to whether or not 1080 was entering the human food chain. They asked Wairarapa doctors to record any miscarriages or heart problems. 1080 drops took place that winter in Wairarapa's domestic water catchments.

Later that year, two Wairarapa doctors approached Citizens Against 1080 to express their concern over a cluster of miscarriages. The Wairarapa Medical Officer of Health, Stephen Palmer, was urged not to permit further 1080 drops untill an investigation had taken place. He sought advice from the Ministry and interviewed the two doctors. He concluded they could not convince him that the miscarriage increase was significant, and allowed further drops to proceed in 1996. (Dominion)

Wairarapa's miscarriage rate sky-rocketed to almost twice the national average in 96. Dr Palmer says the increase was insignificant.

1999 - 1080 was detected in a processed deer carcase in Blenheim, the second in 4 months. The deer was taken from an area where livestock grazed. It was not known if they had been exposed to 1080. (Marlborough Express)

1995 - 10 bulls on a King Country farm died after drinking water on a topdressing airstrip. 1080 had "puddled" during rainfalls. (Reporter Paul Campbell, Rural News? 1996?) Contact Paul Tucker, Friends of the Earth. Mrs Glenys Perkins pedigree bull died after drinking from a contaminated water source. (Greymouth)

2000 November 2 - AHB's Ian Robb writes to Westland dairy farmers, warning them not to object to aerial 1080, and that they must support it in "the interests of having their milk processed".

1995/6? - Following a 1080 drop, 15 month old Natalie Albert eats 1080 baits on Labour Day, at a Maori cemetery at the foot of Mt Tongariro. Her life is spared by quick acting parents who induce vomiting. They struggle to keep her conscious during a 25 minute drive to Turangi Medical Centre, where further vomiting is induced. She lives.

1992 - A central North Island TB free deer farm loses 70 deer to an "over-fly" of 1080. The surviving sub-lethaly poisoned deer test positive for TB. Of the remaining 48 binds, only 2 breed the following season.

An "over-fly" on a Balclutha sheep farm claims 570 ewes. Sheep are still dying 6 months later and there are several miscarriages.

The US EPA classify 1080 as a reproductive toxin. That's all for now, I'm off to bed.

Quaid

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