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"Registered" POISONS In The News
Date:
Wed, 24 Jul 2002 14:11:18 -0400
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
PESTICIDE POLITICS
As the endosulfan controversy erupts afresh, the Kerala government finds itself in a tight spot. Ever since the lid was blown off the machinations of the pesticide lobby in conniving with the government in lifting the ban on the deadly pesticide in March 2002, resentment has been brewing in Kerala over the government's surreptitious move.
Follow the Down To Earth (DTE) endosulphan investigation from the magazine's first reports in February 2001 to the latest July 31, 2002 issue.
This article is available online at http://www.downtoearth.org.in/cover_nl.asp?mode=1
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DOUBLE INDEMNITY: DEATH BY DDT
Despite the ban on Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) by most developed countries in the 1970s, India sprayed 7,000 tonnes of DDT in 2001-2002. Ignoring the widely accepted fact that DDT induces alarmingly high levels of toxicity and possible carcinogenicity, India has continued to consume 3,50,000 tonnes of DDT since 1985, mainly for agricultural and public health purposes. Studies reveal Indians have one of the highest body DDT concentrations. Now, intensive use of DDT has made mosquitoes resistant to the insecticide. More at: www.cseindia.org/html/eyou/healtnews/2002may_june/lead_story.htm
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