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Subject:   'Pesticide "Safety"
     Date:  4/26/2004
    From:     Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization:     Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com) (www.thebestcontrol.com)

To:     Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
          Director, State of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation 

Monday, Apr. 26, 2004 - The Globe and Mail
Unsafe until proven safe By PAMELA PATCHET HAMILTON

Beaconsfield, Que. -- Re Pesticides Too Harmful To Use In Any Form, Doctors Warn (April 24): Gee, whom to believe when it comes to the health effects of pesticide use? A spokesperson for multinational companies that manufacture pesticides and stand to lose millions of dollars in revenue, or the not-for-profit Ontario College of Family Physicians?

Lorne Hepworth, president of CropLife Canada, argues that pesticides are "highly regulated in Canada by federal health staff . . . to see if the products cause cancer before they are approved for use." Nonsense. The label "government approved products" does not, in fact, mean "safe." According to Environment Canada, it only means that these products have not yet been proven unsafe.

We must weigh the benefit of a weed-free lawn against the risk of cancer in our children and ask ourselves "is this worth it?"

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040426/LETTERS26-10/TPComment/Letters
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CTV National News - New report says home gardening pesticides bad for your health (Lead Story)

* CTV News: David Akin on the pesticide peril 2:35

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1082735824419_7/?hub=TopStories
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