Date Sent	SUBJECT
NEXT	May, 2000
4-29-00	Lawmakers Pass Landmark Pesticide Legislation Massachusetts will become the first state in the nation to ban the use of the most dangerous chemical pesticides in schools and day care centers
4-28-00b	U.S. Citizens refuse to quietly go to their deaths under the government's pesticide spraying programs (Profit before People) (Governments ignore the Precautionary Principal so citizens must utilize the Bodies-in-the-Street Principal.)
4-28-00a	The use of highly concentrated DEET-containing insect repellents should be avoided to reduce the risk of toxicity in both children and adults. The consequences of DEET toxicity are variable and unpredictable.
4-28-00	French government scientists have called for a ban on the insecticide Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) after finding that inhaled spores cause lung inflammation, internal bleeding and death in laboratory mice.
4-27-00b	A ten-point pesticide reduction program has been proposed by 8 organizations brought together by Wildlife and Countryside Link.
4-27-00a	The finding may help determine if other people with exposure to the chemicals, which are known as organophosphates and found in insecticides and industrial chemicals, are indeed experiencing problems because of the exposure.   A 7-year-old boy ended up with mild mental retardation after being exposed to chemicals in infancy, researchers report.
4-27-00	A 1987 study sponsored by the National Cancer Institute found that children living in homes where garden pesticides were used had as much as a six-fold greater chance of developing childhood leukemia (autism, brain cancer and more... stop the madness)
4-26-00b	Superintendent Urges Schools to Turn Up the Heat on Pests
4-26-00a	University Study "... children of farm workers who live in Douglas and Chelan counties in Washington state were exposed during the spraying season to pesticide levels that exceeded federal safety levels"
4-26-00	Parathion (registered pesticide) Kills Birds According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, "substantial evidence verifies that mortality of migratory birds and other non-target organisms occurs even when parathion is applied in  complete conformance with the label."
4-23-00a	Nature Wars - People vs. Pests American losses from ("registered") pesticide-contaminated livestock facilities and animal products are about $30 million annually.
4-23-00	Long Island Lobster Deaths - Are Malathion and/or Methoprene To Blame?  The well-established biological relationship between lobsters and insects support the interest by Simon, Bayer and others in the highly charged notion that the pesticides applied to rid Long Island of mosquitoes last fall may have contributed to the  deaths of millions of lobsters in Long Island Sound.
4-20-00a	Professor Abou-Donia's team demonstrated... combinations of toxic pesticides are far more damaging than any (single) compound (active ingredient) acting on its own.  When they combined three compounds at "safe" level for chlorpyrifos and others, they produced an effect on the laboratory animals which was equivalent to the lethal dose of chlorpyrifos
4-20-00	Public Health Officials down play danger of Btk spraying -  Letter to the Editor of the Queens/Magnolia newspaper refuting the studies "reviewed" by the Health Department (Gypsy Moths and Btk)
4-19-00	Children are lab rats for pesticide industry by Dr. Bernard Weiss, Ph.D., University of Rochester
4-18-00	A US team has found changes in the blood of a child with organophosphate (OP) poisoning, which could make it easier for other patients to prove exposure to similar poisons. Until now, doctors have told people suffering from similar conditions that their symptoms were all in their heads.
4-17-00	Brevard Mosquito Control Pesticides -  Environmental and Health Effects Research  Are Mosquito Spray Pesticides Actually Creating An Encephalitis Problem?  (a must read... it boggles the mind to think what other changes are occurring) Click here: http://www.chem-tox.com/brevard/index.htm
4-16-00	The "New York Mosquito Control Plan" at no charge to anyone....  NON-TOXIC MOSQUITO CONTROL
4-15-00a	No Malathion - Health Chief: City Not Spraying Until EPA Gives Okay The position is a reversal of the city’s position last summer. Then, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani approved widespread aerial and ground spraying of the pesticide
4-15-00	Dated/Useless "Registered" POISONS are Still Contaminating The chemicals, stored because they are no longer considered powerful enough to battle agricultural pests, remain toxic to humans and the environment.
4-14-00a	pestiCIDES may cause suiCIDES ? Studies begin to show ... that there is a relationship between chronic exposure to pesticides and suicide
4-14-00	Top Scientists call For Ban on DursBAN Twelve prominent scientists, including two former EPA officials, have sent a letter to EPA Administrator Carol Browner urging tighter restrictions on the pesticide chlorpyrifos, sold as Dursban
4-13-00	The Question is not Pests or Pesticides Steve Tvedten on the "Panic" misuse of pesticides for Mosquitos and New York's plan to once again "protect" the people with untrained poison applicators
4-11-00	The Alps, seen as a pristine ecosystem, act as a magnet for toxic pollutants drawn from the atmosphere, a new international study shows  In the icy lakes above the tree line, fish are contaminated with DDT from the tropics where the insecticide is used extensively against malaria
4-6-00	Snow White.... her apple was healthier than what we're feeding our kids. Despite an August 1999 ban by the federal government on an apple pesticide, recent tests of Washington state apples show dangerous levels of the bug killer and other agriculture chemicals (MORE "REGISTERED" POISONS - YUMMY!) on apples
4-5-00	Unholy Contamination.  Years after pesticide application, home is still "toxic". "registered" POISONS can and do cause significant "registered" contamination and/or that these "registered" POISONS can and do harm people and pets  So what's the score:    Chemical Companies - $$$$$$   Bugs (pests) - evolved and doing fine People - contaminated, unhealthy and dying Homes - contaminated and unlivable Water - undrinkable, unbathable - toxic Ground, Air, Food - contaminated, unhealthy and dying
4-4-00	Unthinkable Risk: How Children Are Exposed and Harmed When Pesticides Are Used at School
MORE	March, 2000

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