Exposure to Indoor Pesticides during Pregnancy
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Date:
Sat, 11 Jan 2003 09:57:03 -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
Dear Mr. Helliker, I thought you might like to read an email I just received:
Bayer was chaired by Ter Meer in the fifties. Ter Meer was the chair of IG Farben during WWII and was convicted of "plundering and slave laboring." He supervised Otto Ambros who was convicted of "slave laboring & mass murder."
Together they set up & ran the Buna rubber facility at Auschwitz.
Bayer hired (or re-hired) Ter Meer & he served as chairman of the board after he got out of prison.
Bayer patented the concept of adding malodorous substances to pesticides as a warning mechanism. This odor was removed form the pesticides that they produced and shipped to the concentration camps to murder the inmates.
They did not want to upset the inmates as they were killed. I guess this shows their concern for the psychological well being of the victims.
Ambros served as consultant for WR Grace (until his death from natural causes in 1991), Dow and several other US corporations.
Dow now runs the chemical facility at Auschwitz which was reopened after the fall of the Berlin wall. No German company could take the political heat associated with running this facility.
In the 90s Bayer knowingly sold factor VIII the was HIV contaminated.
Bayer settled lawsuits filed worldwide after it and other groups sold blood products infected with the HIV virus to hemophiliacs.
Hemophiliacs were infected with HIV -- the virus that causes AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) -- from imported blood products.
In March 1996, Bayer and four other groups agreed to make a one-time total payment of 45 million yen ($420,000) and continuing monthly payments to over
450 claimants or their families in Japan. Sehnert said Bayer's portion of that settlement was 100 million German marks ($66.4 million).
It is of course of interest and sad to see that Bayer has learned nothing from all of this.
David Egilman MD, MPH Clinical Associate Professor of Community Health Brown University degilman2@yahoo.com
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