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Subject:  Chemical POISONING program
 Date:     Wed, 3 Apr 2002 07:14:03 -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

http://www.latinousa.org/program/index.html

BREWSTER COUNTY POISONING

On this edition of the Best of Latino USA , we bring you the story of one work shift that changed lives. It changed marriages and affected the worker¹s faith and health.

It was a workday at the height of the cherry season in a packing plant about 70 miles from the Canadian border in Washington state. 300 people began work at 6 a.m. , and before the next day was over, 100 of them would become ill, inundating the local emergency room, and overwhelming it.

What happened that day at Brewster Heights Packing was the talk of the region's fruit industry for months. The story at Brewster Packing yielded little news coverage and, to date, even less redress for the affected workers.

Recently, this story, which originally aired last April, was awarded the Scripps Howard Journalism Award For National Radio Excellence.

Latino USA producer Ingrid Lobet reports.

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