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     Date:     Sun, 22 Feb 2004
    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 

Farmworker advocates want pesticide exposure notification laws reinstated.

A bill that would require employers to provide concise health information faces opposition from agribusiness representatives, who say it duplicates other laws and may expose growers to frivolous lawsuits filed on behalf of farmworkers.

http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/news/article/0,2071,NPDN_14940_2672027,00.html

 

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Manufacturers of pesticides say human studies will demonstrate that higher levels of toxins in the air and water are not harmful. Many scientists and ethicists have argued that such research is never
justified.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56062-2004Feb19.html
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Two years after initial reports that the world's most popular herbicide, atrazine, is an endocrine disrupter in frogs, the issue has exploded into allegations of ethical misconduct and bad science.

http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2004/feb/science/rr_controversy.html

 

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Go to the website below for the DoD, and then do a search there for "malathion" and then go to the website for the Occupational Medical Surveillance Manual, which comes up with the pages for OP's and Carbamates on pages 55 through 58 on the pdf.  This information should be easily available for the farmworkers.  

 

www.defenselink.mil/

 

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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

 

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