"Legal" Contamination
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"Legal" Contamination
Date:
Sat, 9 Nov 2002 08:59:57 -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.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4454118.htm
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Tom Elmore wants to keep supplying the nation's booming organic foods industry with tomatoes, okra, blueberries and other pesticide-free crops he raises on his small farm near Asheville. But, like many of his peers, Elmore is concerned about fallout - the economic kind that may come from a proposal to relax North Carolina regulations that bar crop-dusters from allowing even tiny amounts of pesticide to drift where they were not intended to go. Under the proposed revisions before the North Carolina Department of Agriculture's pesticide board, there would no longer be any pesticide-free zones around homes, schools, hospitals, nursing homes and churches. Instead, buffer areas between "spray" zones and "no-spray" zones could have pesticide residue of 6 parts per million without being a violation and triggering sanctions against the applicator.
Well Mr. Helliker, Your "registered" POISONS contaminate all life now; is this how you will try to destroy the organic food industry?
Respectfully, Stephen L. Tvedten
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