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09-30-00	From the industry who made the  Dandelion America's # 1 yard enemy  (enabling them to sell tons of hazardous toxins to innocent families) Now here to educate schools on Pests vs. Pesticides The pesticide producers idea of School IPM  (Include Pesticides Monthly)  (It is better for their bottom line... always profits before people)
09-29-00a	FIFRA States Restricted-Use Pesticides Even Used According To Their Label Generally Cause Unreasonable Adverse Effects
09-29-00	Even When Used As Directed - "Registered" POISONS Generally Harm People and the Environment (Florida definition of a Restricted-Use Pesticide)
09-28-00	Air crews fear toxic leak effects
09-25-00	Gov. Davis signs... Healthy Schools Act of 2000 Although it does not stop the poisoning, parents will finally have the information necessary to remove their children from dangerous situations.
09-23-00	Can you deny exterminators home access for health reasons? Tenants' rights regarding pesticide spraying differ from state to state.
09-20-00a	Illegal GE Corn Found in Taco Shells  Genetically Engineered Food Alert, a coalition of health, consumer and environmental groups, demanded that taco shells marketed using the Taco Bell name be immediately removed from grocery store shelves across the country. ...the presence of the genetically engineered ingredient on grocery store shelves, as indicated by the test results, as a failure of the FDA to provide adequate oversight of food biotechnology corporations and food producers.
09-20-00	MODERN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION--PART 4 A recent report from the British Royal Society confirms that some common industrial chemicals, released into the environment, can interfere with hormones in living things with devastating effect.[1] Such chemicals are "cause for grave concern," the report says. Substances that interfere with the endocrine system are called "endocrine disrupting chemicals" or EDCs. The Royal Society's report says that we should take EDCs seriously because there is irrefutable evidence that some EDCs have had devastating effects on wildlife, and the endocrine system of humans is similar to that of wildlife. The report gives two examples of EDCs harming wildlife.
09-19-00	PESTICIDE SPRAYING - LAWSUIT A truck sprays insecticide on a street in Whitestone. A Price to Spray When Claire Feltham opened the door to her Staten Island home last month, the city's mosquito spraying program hit her in the face.
09-18-00	Medical studies indicate health hazards from pyrethroid pesticides Links between pyrethroids and breast cancer Synergistic effects on endocrine disruptions Links between pyrethroids and childhood brain cancers Links between pyrethroids and neurological damage Links between pyrethroids and thyroid damage
09-17-00	New Study Indicates Brain Damage To Gulf War Veterans In a study released Thursday, researchers say they have found a strong link between brain cell loss on the left side of the brain in sick Gulf War veterans and abnormal over-production of dopamine, a neurotransmitter chemical important in such conditions as degenerative brain diseases.  (Permethrin and DEET combo cited)
09-16-00	Mexico Leak Forces Evacuations Hundreds of people in central Mexico were evacuated and 120 were hospitalized after an accident at a pesticide factory released clouds of malathion pesticide, authorities said Wednesday.  (Another Bophal is probably on the horizon:  It is only a matter of which country, what city which, neighborhood has to die?)
09-15-00	School Cleared After Spill Brooklyn elementary school was evacuated yesterday after a small bottle containing the pesticide malathion shattered inside a janitor's closet in a second-grade classroom.  (As children were passing out, becoming dizzy or vomiting, official says evacuation was only "precautionary" - Read Comment)
09-10-00	More than 200 firefighters, police and paramedics had answered the alarm ... they waded unwarned into one of the worst illegal chemical dumps in the nation Disease is decimating the ranks of those who fought the blaze, according to an Inquirer investigation that traced nearly all who had been there. Serious illnesses – cancer, vascular and neuromuscular disorders, kidney failure –  have afflicted at least 45
09-09-00e	Pesticides can cause problems with speech and thinking.  Gardeners and farmers who use pesticides are at risk of developing brain damage, according to a study
09-09-00d	Kids' Health Is No Experiment The industry's argument in favor of the Pombo bill boils down to the assertion that pesticides should be held innocent until unquestionably proven guilty. The smart course is "better safe than sorry" when it comes to children's health. The Pombo bill should be defeated.  (Which mountain of evidence will Congress chose to review... the pesticide industrys' or the growing number of independent ethical researchers.)
09-09-00c	PAN Pesticide Database The PAN Pesticide Database is the largest, most comprehensive collection of pesticide data in the world, including information about 5,100 pesticide active ingredients, pesticide breakdown products and related chemicals.  (Knowledge is Power)
09-09-00b	CHILDREN FACE DANGER IN THE SCHOOLYARD. "It is highly irresponsible to expose young children to a known nervous system poison just because someone didn't like the look of ground beetles.. Parents should have been notified that this pesticide was used on school grounds, they should have been provided information about the health and environmental effects of diazinon, and children should be allowed to stay home if parents are concerned
09-09-00a	PRECAUTION AND ETHNOBIOLOGY: INFLUENCING THE SCIENTIFIC AGENDA
09-09-00	EPA's REVISED POLICY ISSUED ON USE OF CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITION DATA IN PESTICIDE RISK ASSESSMENTS
09-07-00d	DOCTORS URGE CONGRESS, VOTE NO ON PESTICIDE BILL  More than 200 physicians and other health professionals signed a letter urging Congress to continue to support America's protection of children from harmful pesticides.
09-07-00c	Long Island lawn care company fined for West Nile claims ...advertising campaign that claimed its spraying of homeowners’ shrubs and trees would kill mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus
09-07-00b	Pollution Causes Sexual Problems  The entire male fish population of some European rivers show feminising effects from so-called "gender-bending" chemicals, according to new research.   Congress Ignores Bill Before the Election The House Agriculture committee on Wednesday postponed a scheduled mark-up of a bill that would slow the Environmental Protection Agency's review of thousands of pesticides for risks to childrens' health.  (Politicians and lobbyists may be planning something after the election?  see:  08-08-00)
09-07-00a	City held responsible in poisoning of child - Pesticide Suit Award Upheld A three-judge panel of the Nebraska Court of Appeals upheld a verdict Tuesday in favor of the father of a 5-year-old who suffered four seizures after being exposed to Malathion pesticide being sprayed to kill mosquitoes.
09-07-00	EPA ANNOUNCES INDUSTRY-WIDE TASK FORCE TO JOINTLY DEVELOP INDOOR RESIDENTIAL EXPOSURE DATA FOR SYNTHETIC PYRETHROIDS, PYRETHRUM AND SYNERGISTS
09-06-00	Bombers Stray And Spray - Hundreds of moms, dads and kids run for cover as helicopters douse ball fields, golf course and a residential area with pesticide. Helicopters that city officials said would only spray over "unpopulated areas" instead spewed their pesticide cloud over surprised and frightened Islanders yesterday. Hundreds of children playing on football and baseball fields in Travis had to dodge the mist.
09-05-00d	EPA recently began to "call in" data on developmental neurotoxicity (DNT) from manufacturers of pesticides already registered and considered to be neurotoxic-around 140 pesticides.  ...studies indicate that neonatal exposure to pesticides--even in low doses--can potentiate and/or modify the reaction to adult exposure to xenobiotics, and thereby accelerate dysfunctional processes.
09-05-00c	Sweet-Scented Pesticide Sugarcoats A Toxic Pill: Critics Decry Industry's Perverse Threat To Children "Pesticides give off a pretty recognizable smell, and people naturally act adversely to it. This is an attempt to cover up what amounts to a warning signal."
09-05-00b	"Registered" POISON Used By "Professional" - Kills Daughter Officials believe the family was poisoned by Fumitoxin pellets that Don Carlson placed in the ground near the home to control pests.
09-05-00a	U.S. officials begin experiment to bury underwater pesticide dump From 1947 to 1971, chemical manufacturer Montrose Corp. allegedly dumped residue into the sewage system, allowing 110 tons (100 metric tons) of  DDT to spread across 17 square miles (44 square kilometers) of ocean floor. The area was declared a Superfund environmental cleanup site in 1996.
09-05-00	New EPA Study Elevates Cancer Rating for Top U.S. Weed Killer. Atrazine Classified "Likely Human Carcinogen" in Tap Water Chemical May Also Cause Hormonal Damage to Infants, Children
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