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06-14-00e	Senate Passes Boxer Amendment on Military Use of Pesticides -  Measure would ban routine use of highly toxic chemicals in areas used by children
06-14-00d	Environmental Contaminants and Learning Problems - Kids at Risk Chemicals in the environment come under scrutiny as the number of childhood learning problems soars
06-14-00c	California Farm Workers POISONED By "Registered" Pesticides The two toxic pesticides, Omite and Lorsban, drifted onto the grape workers from a nearby almond field that was being sprayed
06-14-00b	Malathion Poisoning In Texas - Way to Go Governor Bush! They have made it impossible for the farmers to refuse the aerial sprayings. They hold the money from the cotton sales until the farmers pay for the spraying's. Our whole community has become very ill over the past 6 years. (Another case of Profits before People!)
06-14-00a	Some States Are Actually Trying to Protect The People In a letter to major retailers, state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said the voluntary pullback agreed to by the Environmental Protection Agency and chemical manufacturers doesn't go far enough in protecting children and pets.
06-14-00	Endosulfan Deaths in Benin Official sources in Benin state that at least 37 people died due to endosulfan poisoning during the 1999/2000 season in northern Borgou  province. Another 36 were poisoned and became seriously ill.
06-13-00b	Why is Hazardous Waste Called "Inert" in Your "Registered" Poisons? Xylene one of the many toxic "inerts" in pesticides.
06-13-00a	Assessing children's toxic risks - Pediatricians gain new diagnostic tool It's a weighty acknowledgment that conditions ranging from asthma to sudden infant death syndrome may have environmental causes.
06-13-00	Canadian National Pesticide Ban Proposed
06-10-00	Our POISONS Are Perfectly "Safe"-----Yeah, Right Orkin Pest Control said it was "perfectly safe" to stay in the home while they sprayed Dursban
06-09-00h	"Registered" Bug Bombs Make People Sick Automatic pesticide dispensers used in  restaurants (and schools - see related story) and other public places have sickened 97 people over 13 years, according to government researchers.
06-09-00g	"Registered" Lindane A Problem In Water Treatment Plants-----
06-09-00f	DursBAN "Basically Banned" The agreement announced today will: Stop production of and phase-out all home, lawn, and garden uses; Stop production of and phase-out the vast majority of termite-control uses; Significantly lower allowable pesticide residues on several foods regularly eaten by children.
06-09-00e	World Awash in Chlorine Based Poisons Agent Orange, DDT, PCBs - they are famous chemicals, notoriously toxic - notoriously banned. Yet they, and their (still) legal cousins, continue to contaminate the environment, wildlife, our food and our bodies.
06-09-00d	California - now recognizes FIFRA Section 25(b)
06-09-00c	Family Man faces physical disability after being poisoned by chlordane 20 years after it is banned by the EPA (Being banned by the EPA doesn't mean anything if people are allowed to stockpile)
06-09-00b	EPA To Ban Common ("Registered") Pesticide The agency, after a lengthy review, has concluded that the pesticide, chlorpyrifos - sold under the trade names Dursban and Lorsban - poses a risk to children because of its potential effects on the nervous system and possibly brain development.  (However, Dow AgroChemical and other manufacturers will be allowed to manufacturer and sell these deadly poisons to the public for home use for another 18 months.  What part of "it is harmful to children" don't we understand.)
06-09-00a	Soon, the POISON "industry" may find real science will kill their profits--- Advances in genetic technology which allow scientists to tell the precise effects of chemicals on the body mean that the companies that produce them face a bleak future of lawsuits over allergies and toxicity, says a report by Friends of the Earth.
06-09-00	Uneasy Alliance -- Clinical Investigators and the Pharmaceutical Industry How much influence does industry have over the work and products of the research community? Can practicing physicians trust the information they receive about the medications they are prescribing? Does the shift from the academic to the commercial research sector give industry too much control over clinical drug trials?
06-04-00a	"Registered" POISONS Obviously Create Poor Behavior and Performance Problems The differences Guillette has found in the Yaqui children and in their mothers should be an alarm bell for the rest of us. It is part of a growing body of research linking lead and pesticides to poor school performance and aggressive behavior.
06-04-00	Dr. Samuel Epstein's Letter Banned From "SCIENCE MAGAZINE" Corporate/political (sound) science vs. real world science (follow the money trail?)
06-03-00b	Diazinon: EPA study says popular bug killer poses danger Diazinon and chlorpyrifos (DursBAn and LorsBAN) are the two organophosphates most commonly used by homeowners. Though far weaker than some of the most toxic organophosphates employed in agriculture, their frequent home use creates more possibilities for direct contact with vulnerable young children.
6-03-00a	EPA PROPOSES REVOKING METHYL PARATHION TOLERANCES EPA's determination that showed acute dietary risks from methyl parathion in food did not meet current requirements for an extra margin of safety to protect children
6-3-00	Organophosphates Linked To Brain Damage
6-2-00	EPA KNEW ABOUT ASBESTOS IN LIBBY FOR YEARS. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) knew that asbestos fibers were killing people in Libby, Montana, for 15 years before taking action (who profited from the deaths?) PROFIT BEFORE PEOPLE
6-01-00a	EPA recall on Monsanto Corporation's Roundup® Ready-To-Use Weed and Grass Killer and the Scotts Company's Ortho® Ready-To-Use Home DefenseTM Indoor & Outdoor Insect Killer5.
6-01-00	EPA Increases Risk Estimate of Pesticide Dursban The Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that one of the most commonly used pesticides, a compound sold as Dursban and found in dozens of home-and-garden products, may be more dangerous to people than previously thought...
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