Date Sent	Subject
Apr. 2000	NEXT
3-31-00a	Dursban Label Changed----- Now Extremely Toxic-----
3-31-00	CANCER, ASTHMA AND OTHER POLLUTION RELATED DISEASES PERSIST IN CALIFORNIA Murder is Murder --- Even if You Make it "LEGAL"---
3-30-00f	Joint Letter to the EPA from Children's Environmental Health Network   American Public Health Association National PTA
3-30-00e	California Farmers Increase the Use of Toxic Substances---- Overall, more than 50 million pounds of harsh fungicides, herbicides, insecticides and soil fumigants were applied to California farm fields in 1998--a 3-million-pound increase since 1994.
3-30-00d	EPA will dump sand, 50,000 truckloads of it, to cap undersea DDT The area - the Palos Verdes Shelf - was declared a Superfund environmental cleanup site in 1996. A lawsuit in the dumping is the largest pending natural-resource-damage case in the nation, previously exceeded only by the Exxon Valdez case in Alaska.
3-30-00c	Pollutants can reach babies in the womb An 80% rise in asthma death rates between 1980 and 1993, along with the increasing incidence of birth defects and developmental problems, has raised questions about how chemicals in the environment effect infants and young children.
3-30-00b	Unregistered Contaminants in Your "Registered" POISONS Are Finally Being Researched  Air Force study released yesterday reported the strongest evidence to date of a connection between exposure to Agent Orange, the herbicide used by U.S. forces in the Vietnam War, and diabetes. ... and heart disease
3-30-00a	Concentrations of Organochlorines Related to Titers to Epstein-Barr Virus
3-30-00	Government Finds Excessive Risks in Widely Used Insecticide - Majority of U.S. Population Exposed - Children Found Especially Vulnerable  (DURSBAN) A massive government review has concluded that the most widely used insecticide in the United States poses excessive safety risks to millions of Americans
3-29-00a	Farmworker health probe - Pregnancy: Study will try to gauge the effects of  household hazards in the Salinas Valley The five-year study will look at the potential health effects of low-level, chronic exposure to such menaces as pesticides, pollens, mold, dust and other allergens common to an agricultural community
3-29-00	California Wants to Crush Thirsty Insect
3-27-00a	Malathion has been sprayed on millions of innocent people even though the EPA has known since 1986 something is wrong  ...studies under agency review also showed malathion produced "significant" tumors in mice, according to EPA memos. The pesticide and its chemical cousins - used in homes and schools and on lawns and food crops - act on the central nervous system.
3-27-00	Spring is here but what's that in the air?  The bitter sweet taste and invisibility of seasonal spraying of poisons  Insecticides were discovered while developing chemical warfare agents in WW2. They were proven to be lethal to insects while searching for killing agents for man.  Cide = to kill.  Exposure to minute amounts of these synthetic, neurotoxic chemicals can cause debilitating health problems.
3-25-00	New York... Giuliani undertaking Second "Holocaust" with aerial spraying of synthetic pesticide poisons The sheet (MSDS) on Pendulum states:  “Caution! Keep out of reach of children. Avoid contact with eyes, skin or clothing. Do not ingest. Avoid breathing sprays or mists”. ... They chose to spray the more dangerous and toxic chemical in our neighborhood on a street lined with synagogues, yeshivas and playing children.
3-24-00b	Does PB (Pyridostigmine bromide) Lead to MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity)?
3-24-00a	Why is asthma on the rise in Oxnard schools?  Expansion of schools into ag belt brings perceived risk of exposure to toxic pesticides.   UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR
3-24-00	Lyndon, get some guts and stop the pesticides   Sort of Answered by Lyndon
3-21-00c	Male Fertility and Pesticides - Revisited  ... when the cells were exposed to the pesticide for 6 hours, there was no resumption of testosterone production 18 hours later.   UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR
3-21-00b	New Push to Eliminate Food Chain Pollutants The week of United Nations sponsored talks in Germany is the fourth of five scheduled rounds working towards a treaty to stop the use of so-called ``persistent organic pollutants,'' or POPs.   UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR
3-21-00a	How Many Children are POISONED and not Mentally Ill How many Psychiatrists will diagnose neurotoxicity as a psychiatric condition and put the child or for that matter grown up on medication?   UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR
3-21-00	Pregnant Women At Risk From Chemicals In Food An analysis by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) of government data shows that women may inadvertently increase their intake of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) during pregnancy and lactation, times when both mothers and babies are vulnerable to insult from environmental toxins.   UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR
3-20-00a	Trimper Family, poisoned by Terminix with Dursban, Speaks to EPA From what we are being told by a contact close to family, it is an eerie 4 minutes or so of watching people who look terribly sick, stare into the camera and tell of their plight. Paraphrasing, Bruce urged the EPA to wake up and get it together, then closing with a reference to the blood on the hands of the people in the industry.   UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR
3-20-00	Experts Urge Study of Chemicals and Children's Health The goal of the study would be to determine whether synthetic chemicals are responsible for the increase in asthma, birth defects and cancers observed in US children since World War II, according to Dr. Philip J. Landrigan, director of the Mount Sinai Center for Children's Health and the Environment   UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR
3-19-00	Terminix backs out of suit against private citizen's web site After Virga created a Web site critical of Terminix, the company sued her twice, once for libel. Carla won. And once for trademark infringement for using the name Terminix.   UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR
3-17-00	World Wildlife Federation requests a ban on 12 POPs  (Persistent Organic Pollutants) "POPs are the super-hurricanes of the chemical world," said Clifton Curtis, Director of WWF's Global Toxic Chemicals Initiative. "They cannot be controlled, are completely unpredictable and wreak untold havoc on the environment.   UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR
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