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08-29-00c	CASE REPORT - Effects of Pesticides on the Immune System  The long-term consequences of chronic pesticide exposure in the parts per billion and trillion are unknown. However, the massive increase of cancer in the farming areas in the USA suggests an adverse relationship
08-29-00b	Return to the aftermath of Malathion Spraying in Florida  The result: Malathion - at levels up to 81 times higher than state and federal standards - found its way into the creeks, which feed into Lake Thonotosassa. It wiped out all but two species of snails and two species of beetles. The long-term absence of aquatic invertebrates - key components of the food chain - could ultimately affect fish, reptiles and even people, Morgan said.
08-29-00a	Avitrol Banned In New York City Avitrol is toxic to birds, mammals, fish and people. The pesticide has been reported to cause severe poisoning and death in people through accidental ingestion and skin exposure.
08-29-00	BLUE CLAW CRABS TURNING UP DEAD IN GREAT SOUTH BAY.   Areas Adjacent to Marshes Where Mosquito Spraying Has Taken Place
08-28-00	Your Neighbors - Unwilling Victims of Pesticide Misuse by Jackie Alan Giuliano, Ph.D
08-27-00a	We have a right to live Without pesticides:   We should work with nature instead of waging chemical warfare against it   When Rachel Carson published her famous anti-pesticide book `Silent Spring' in 1962, a campaign was launched to discredit her. Things haven't changed much in 38 years.
08-27-00	Who Is Responsible For Environmental Child Abuse? And we may not be too far from the day when the use of household and garden pesticides in the presence of children could be identified as a form of environmental child abuse.
08-25-00b	New York Attorney General - The federal government should require pesticide manufacturers to fully disclose their "inert'' ingredients since they may pose serious health risks. ..the report found that more than 200 chemicals used as inert ingredients, though not (considered) active when used in a particular pesticide product, are classified as hazardous environmental pollutants under federal environmental statutes.
08-25-00a	Florida Pest Control Operator - "We were deceived" I think what is needed here is a class action suit by applicators against the government, citing their failure to recognize the potential threat of significantly high levels of exposure to pesticides to the applicators and to take measures to properly notify us of this potential threat.
08-25-00	EPA Extends Comment Period on Cumulative Risk Assessment
08-24-00f	Challenge Letter to Congressional Candidates The letter below is adapted from the Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN) letter to presidential candidates to help identify each candidates commitment to the environment and our children's health. It has been adapted to address other congressional hopefuls at our local level of government.
08-24-00e	MODERN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION--PART 3 Risk assessment is the most powerful intellectual tool that the poisoners and destroyers of the planet have ever invented. It is their battering ram AND their camouflage. It provides "cover" for just about any damaging activity that anyone might want to undertake.
08-24-00d	USDA to Withdraw 1998 FIFRA Application for Medfly Malathion Spraying in Florida
08-24-00c	How Big Tobacco fixed its problem with pesticide "regulators" The warning bells had started ringing in 1989, when the Environmental Protection Agency called into question the whole family of EBDCs by concluding that the chemical byproduct they generate is probably a highly potent human carcinogen.
08-24-00b	New York Governor Signs Pesticide Law The law requires companies that use pesticides to give at least a 48-hour warning to neighbors living within 150 feet of any spraying site. It also requires schools and day care facilities to provide parents and staff with a notice before pesticides are applied on school grounds.
08-24-00a	Pyrethrin Can Cause Acute Asthma Attacks It has a low toxicity in humans, but it can cause skin rash, upper respiratory tract irritation, and, in rare cases, potentially life-threatening asthma attacks, according to published reports.
08-24-00	Registered Pesticides Cannot Stop Fire Ants People shouldn't forget that there's never been a successful biological control of a social insect
08-22-00	Toxic soup puts kids at risk - New Study Today's children are born with a body burden of synthetic, persistent organic pollutants -- the consequences of which will not be known for another 50 years or so
08-19-00b	Organic Gardening getting bigger Mainstream gardeners and homeowners -- for decades, indiscriminately spraying lawns, shrubs and gardens with deadly poisons -- are demanding alternatives to chemical pest and weed controls.
08-19-00a	Steve Tvedten responds to Forbes Magazine editorial which encourages continued use of pesticide
08-19-00	Lindane Pollutes LA Drinking Water - California to ban uses ... a single treatment of head lice or scabies with lindane pollutes 6 million gallons of water, the equivalent of 300 swimming pools. Lindane lasts for a long time in the environment, where it can contaminate the tissues of fish and other animals. (Now, who will examine Pyrethrin, Pyrethrum, Permethrin, Pythroids, Malathion and Piperonyl Butoxide being used for lice and scabies and ending up in our water table?)
08-18-00	Scientist Differs With E.P.A. on Malathion The toxicologist, Dr. Brian Dementi, who was one of the E.P.A.'s lead scientists in charge of evaluating malathion, testified before an independent scientific advisory panel that the chemical was a potentially greater cancer threat than the federal agency's preliminary and mostly benign report on it. That report found little evidence that it was harmful to humans when used correctly
08-17-00a	Lawn Care Industry and Dow Science ...defining the term ‘pesticide’ and surprising the lawn care customer by naming everyday items as potential hazards doesn’t offer proof to the safety or lack of risks associated with pesticides, implications can be made for either argument (Dow points the way to showing how customers can be convinced that alternatives to pesticides and herbicides (i.e., soap and water) have many dangers too.)
08-17-00	Study Finds Benefits in Natural Crop Biodiversity instead of pesticide poisons increase crops.  (Bidiversity is that think that Monsanto hates.  It gets in the way of their GM crops.)
08-16-00	European Union votes to ban Lindane for agriculture and gardening. Why is it still be allowed for home use?
08-15-00b	Gore Claims Kinship with Ecologist Author Rachel Carson
08-15-00a	Government Officials call Pyrethroids "Safe".  Sound Science Says Otherwise
08-15-00	Health Professionals Call For Spraying Ban What the industry and the puppeting government agencies are not telling the American public is that ALL independent, scientific studies done on genetically modified foods show that these foods significantly suppress the immune systems and increase cancer rates.
08-14-00a	Genetically Modified Foods What the industry and the puppeting government agencies are not telling the American public is that ALL independent, scientific studies done on genetically modified foods show that these foods significantly suppress the immune systems and increase cancer rates.
08-14-00	Thyroid receptor binding of pyrethroids Both the thyroid and retinoic acid effects are known to be associated with autoimmune disease.  In male children, autism and ADD or ADHD seem to be autoimmune in nature and in adult females the entire range of conditions from rheumatoid arthritis , multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus, and more are autoimmune in nature.
08-13-00a	Pesticides in House Dust Fourteen pesticides and all 10 of the target PAHs were detected in one or more of the seven size-fractionated samples.
08-13-00	Methal Bromide kills mother and injures child
08-10-00b	It's Time To Pull the Plug On Pesticide Use Court challenges by those who make a living from pesticides have already taken place. The power of the pesticide makers is considerable. Anyone who doubts it should check out the tragedy in Bhopal, India. To-date, Union Carbide has still not provided records of the pesticides that killed 5,000 people and injured untold thousands.
08-10-00a	USDA Researcher who's work with DEET identified a possible cause of Gulf War Syndrome and received the thankfulness of Gulf War Veterans...  then got fired after S.C. Johnson Wax (manufacturer of a popular DEET product OFF) got nervous.
08-10-00	Most Cancer Is Made, Not Born For most people, cancer comes not from preprogrammed genes, but from conditions and exposures that are encountered throughout their lives.
08-08-09a	ABC ADMITS: Organic Food Report Incorrect
08-08-09	MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING between the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY and the CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL and PREVENTION
08-08-00b	Public Panic over West Nile Virus ... a voice of reason in a sea of political mishandling The seductiveness of aerial pesticide spraying, devastating to butterflies and other non-target species, and frightening and potentially harmful to many humans, should be the last, not the first, approach to controlling disease spread.
08-08-00a	You can legally make your own "pesticides" from nontoxic ingredients supplied by the USEPA (but is it legal in California for PCOs to use them.)   WAITING FOR RESPONSE FROM MR. HELLIKER ...
08-08-00	Poison Producers' reveal their plan to keep pesticides in schools" We are not concerned about the Affordable Education Act," he continued.  "It is going to the House and after it comes back, we will strip the school notification amendment out.  However, what we learned that day was our best friends can't say no when someone as extreme as Boxer gets up and says 'I want to protect children"'.
08-05-00e	MODERN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION--PART 2
08-05-00d	Response from Paul Helliker, Director of the California Department of Pesticide Regulation "You seem to blame us for people using pesticides.  That is akin to blaming the police for every murder that is committed." Reply from Steve: The only other way that Mr. Helliker's comparison would be true - would be if the Police Department historically/currently would have demanded that only their "registered" guns, knives, and other weapons could/can "legally" be used to settle disputes.   WAITING FOR RESPONSE FROM MR. HELLIKER ...
08-05-00c	Parkinson's Linked to Residential Use of  "Registered" POISONS ... first (study) to show an association between home pesticide use and the risk of developing Parkinson's disease.
08-05-00b	George W. Bush Ignores Environment Corporations are responsible ... to treat their workers fairly, and leave the air and waters clean," he said.   (Yeah,"trust" the corporations to do the right thing.)
08-05-00a	Parkinson's disease is thought to be secondary to the presence of  neurotoxins, and pesticides have been implicated as possible causative agents.
08-05-00	Mr. Heliker, what is an inert??
08-03-00b	The Continued Silence After the Nuremburg trials we began to produce and to use basically the same neuro-toxins or organophosphates that had been used as nerve gases to kill innocent people to "control" insect pests. (Chemical companies continue to profit from death.)
08-03-00a	Organization educates about pesticides on Little League Fields Providing safer fields without toxic chemicals is just a matter of education, commitment to protecting the kids and seeking out the solutions.
08-03-00	Pesticides Increase the Incidence of Encephalitis Due to the recent increase in journal articles finding that low level chemical exposures can decrease the quality of mammalian immune system function, it is quite reasonable to expect wildlife in this immune weakened state to contract encephalitis more frequently.
08-02-00	PYRETHROID DOCUMENTED RESEARCH These findings provide a mechanism by which chronic exposure of humans or animals to pesticides containing these compounds may result in disturbances in endocrine effects relating to androgen action The results suggest a possibility that pyrethroids may alter the cellular energy metabolism of the nervous system.
08-01-00b	Toxic Bodies: Endocrine Disruption and Our Imperiled Future
08-01-00a	San Francisco Schools Praised for Cutting Pesticide Use The three pesticides of concern used in San Francisco schools, according to the survey, are Maxforce FC Bait Stations, a possible carcinogen; Tempo WP, a suspected endocrine disrupter; and Contrac Blox, an acute toxicant.  (California IPM still means "Include Pesticides Monthly)
08-01-00	Dejected Lobstermen Blame Mosquito Spraying in Crippling Die-Off  It is a suspicion that some scientists are taking seriously, saying there are plausible indicators -- but not definitive proof -- that the pesticides could have played a role in the catastrophic lobster kill.
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