October, 2000 Pesticides - Articles, Letters and Comments.

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10-31-00	EPA ANNOUNCES NEW FOIA WEB PAGE / INERTS DISCLOSURE
10-29-00c	New York Attorney General Seeks former Terminix Employees
10-29-00b	"Mad Cow Disease", the product of government mandated malathion treatments Since 1982 UK farmers have been required by law to treat their cattle for warble fly with a pour-on organophosphate called Phosmet. Organophosphates were originally developed by Nazi chemists during World War Two as a chemical weapon nerve agent.
10-29-00a	Terminix Records Altered A former supervisor for pest-control giant Terminix International says he was instructed by a regional officer of the company in April 1998 to alter records of pesticide treatments at customers' homes.
10-29-00	RACHEL'S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH BIWEEKLY #709 & #710 on the WEST NILE VIRUS
10-28-00a	Regulatory Openness and Fairness Act of 1999 One set of bills to keep on eye on are H.R. 1592 and S. 1464. These bills (called the Regulatory Openness and Fairness Act of 1999) were drafted by the pesticide and corporate farming industries and completely undermines the Food Quality Protection Act passed in 1996. (Appears to put pesticides in the category as "safe" until absolutely, completely proven otherwise. I suspect this means a lot more dead and dying.)
10-28-00	California Organic Farmers Protest Pesticide Spraying They call it the cholesterol of grape vines: Pierce's disease, a bacterium that chokes plants to death. Now, an insect headed north could transport it deep into Northern California vineyards. Growers want to take no chances, forcibly spraying private gardens if necessary.
10-27-00d	Partial Lindane Bans in California and Europe Documented health effects of exposure to the pesticide include hormone disruption, dizziness, seizures, nervous system damage, immune system damage and birth defects. Lindane is also a suspected carcinogen with possible links to breast cancer incidence, and has been found in breast milk and blood samples throughout the world.
10-27-00c	Linkage of Pesticides and Breast Cancer through Lactation Studies: Important Public Health Issues But how long will it be until women are told not to give their milk to their babies because it is simply too contaminated? Breast milk of women in the High Arctic who eat a diet high in animal fat has unfortunately become seriously contaminated, and may have already exceeded limits which justify giving it to their children.
10-27-00b	U.S.DA. will purchase current crop of StarLink GM Corn A Case of averting a biological disaster
10-27-00a	Organophosphorus pesticides cause delayed nervous system diseases
10-27-00	West Nile virus, spraying pesticides the wrong response Scientific evidence suggests that mosquito spraying actually enhances infection rates in the birds that reservoir the virus by directly compromising the avian immune response thus making them more susceptible to infection. Additionally, mosquitoes that survive insecticide exposure may be affected in ways that make them more efficient transmitters of the infectious virus.
10-26-00	*National Breast Cancer Industry* Month ... corporate members of the cancer establishment -- such as General Electric, the heavily advertised maker of mammography machines and also a major industrial polluter -- have a more direct interest in turning companies away from potential environmental causes of cancer. (Pushing Cure and Detection to Protect their Corporate Behinds from Victims seeing the Cause)**
10-22-00c	The Breast Cancer Awareness Month - Seeing the Deception is your only protection When it comes to the environmental carcinogens found in pesticides, herbicides, plastics and other toxic chemicals, there is booming silence by all Breast Cancer Awareness Month programs. Breast cancer Awareness month's primary sponsor and mastermind of the event in 1985 was Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, now known as AstraZeneca. Zeneca is the company that manufactures the controversial and widely prescribed breast cancer drug, tamoxifen. (Screw the Cure.... Get the Criminals who have caused this epidemic.)
10-22-00b	In the last thirty years, cancer rates among children have increased dramatically. When Dan Steinke asked doctors about possible environmental causes of his only child's cancer, Steinke says, they responded in whispers. "You sensed it was like a taboo subject," he says.
10-22-00a	Coalition sues EPA for action on pesticides The Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides, a Eugene-based nonprofit group, filed suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday, charging that the federal agency has not released information on inert materials in pesticides.
10-22-00	Pesticide Awareness Grows in The UK, So Do Complaints Complaints over the use of pesticides have soared by 70 percent in the UK, according to figures released by the Health and Safety Executive on Tuesday. More than 450 chemical pesticides are approved for use in the UK. Pressure groups charge that farmers and doctors know little about these pesticides.
10-21-00a	Parents Of Children Born Without Eyes Seek Answers (DuPont Pesticide suspected)
10-21-00	Team to study dog's death, possible link to canker work. The 86-pound dog fell dead in his yard in Miami Monday while canker workers were grinding up a sour orange tree stump next door. Tyson's owner suspects they used chemicals that killed him.
10-20-00	Banned pesticides found in dead birds Some birds initially suspected of carrying West Nile virus in Connecticut are laced with insecticides and DDT byproducts, a pesticide the federal government banned about 30 years ago. Whether or not the level of DDT or diazinon, a common pesticide used to protect lawns from insect infestation, killed them remains to be seen.
10-19-00c	What the 2000 Election Means to PMPs (PMPs is an acronym for pest management professionals)
10-19-00b	Beekeepers demand that Bayer's Gaucho and rival Aventis's Regent be banned French honey makers yesterday demanded a ban on pesticides which they alleged were decimating the local bee population by making plants so toxic that even the slightest contact could damage the insects' nervous system. Studies found that Gaucho left a residue which meant that even after two years, plants sowed on the same spot as the crop originally treated contained traces of the product.
10-19-00a	PESTICIDE USE AND AWARENESS GROWS
10-19-00	The Toxic Treadmill: Pesticide Use and Sales in New York State 1997-1998 Overall, nonagricultural pesticide use far exceeds agricultural use, and urban and suburban counties report greater use than upstate and rural counties. New York City again tops the charts for highest pesticide use in the state.
10-18-00a	Leaked letter from DuPont Researcher proves DuPont knew pesticide put babies at risk Chemical giant DuPont has always denied claims that their crop sprays damaged children in the womb, resulting in them being born without eyes or with severely underdeveloped eyes.
10-18-00	Environmental and Citizens' Groups File Pesticide Arguments with Supreme Court. On December 7th, 2000 Canada's highest court will hear an appeal by two pesticide corporations, Chemlawn and Spraytech, challenging a by-law passed by the municipality of Hudson, Quebec. The by-law would control local use and application of pesticides by homeowners and businesses in the municipality.
10-17-00	Suppression of Scientists On Pesticides In a typical case, a scientist does research that is potentially threatening to the pesticide industry or speaks out critically about pesticides, and is attacked in some fashion. Common methods include withdrawal of research funding, threats, and attempts at dismissal. Suppression of scientist critics of pesticides appears to serve the interests of the agrichemical industry.
10-16-00	Dursban - The Ban That Wasn't EPA Administrator Carol Browner declared that the agency was "shutting off the manufacture of this chemical." An Associated Press headline announced: "EPA to Ban Common Pesticide." But a closer look at the deal reveals that the agency not only failed to ban Dursban, it did not recall the product already on store shelves. It also did nothing to limit the use of dozens of chemically related pesticides called organophosphates that are still on the market.
10-15-00	Pilots who fly plans and spray pesticides are suffering the same damages as the innocent victims.
10-13-00	EPA ANNOUNCEMENTS 1) Genetically Modified StarLink Corn (found in corn chips) is going... going... gone. (Well okay, they can continue to sell it for animal feed until they deplete their current stock. But no one has explained how it got from animal feed to corn chips anyhow.) 2) Organophosphate pesticide ethyl parathion is "acutely toxic". EPA bans all uses but allows company to continue to sell for another 3 years until stocks depleted. (Profits Over People)
10-11-00	TERMINIX MUST PAY $2 MILLION PLUS IN PUNITIVE DAMAGES IN CONQUER SPRAYING CASE "The evidence supporting our conclusion that Terminix authorized, participated in, or ratified Sanchez's conduct ... establishes Terminix's indifference to, and reckless disregard for, the health and safety of the plaintiffs."
10-10-00a	The Secret Hazards of Pesticides: Inert Ingredients Attorney General of New York - New York State Office of the Attorney General Environmental Protection Bureau February 1996
10-10-00	Article from Pest Control Technology "Having blanket notification of pesticides when statistics have shown that there's only an extremely small percentage that really want that [notification] only alarms people in the long run," said Harvey Logan, president, Pest Control Operators of California (PCOC), representing over 1,100 PMPs in the state.
10-08-00a	Parents must do more, demand more to protect kids from toxic poisoning ...the overwhelming majority of the 80,000 chemicals on the market have never been tested adequately for their safety to children, and scientists haven't even begun to look at the cumulative effects of these toxins on children, as their fragile brains and other organs develop.
10-08-00	Monsanto's Transgenic Cottons Can Make Gonorrhoea Untreatable The aad gene, which confers resistance to the antibiotics streptomycin and spectinomycin, is present in both Bollgard (insect-protected) and Roundup Ready (herbicide tolerant) transgenic cottons.
10-07-00a	WOOD PESTICIDE PROBLEMS HIGHLIGHTED IN NEW REPORT The stories of families whose health has been damaged by toxic wood preservatives are detailed in a new report
10-07-00	Telling American Families the Truth About Unhealthy Air - Anti-Environmental Amendment. The amendment prohibits EPA from identifying communities that do not meet the health-based limits on smog pollution, as established by EPA in 1997. Alert
10-06-00	Pesticides 'promote dangerous bacteria' Pesticides encourage potentially dangerous bacteria to thrive on some crops, say scientists.
10-05-00	Aerial assault on boll weevils sends people scurrying ... a new aerial assault is under way across a dozen counties of West Tennessee. Nearly 70 planes and two helicopters, along with several ground-application machines, have been summoned to wipe out boll weevils from 370,000 acres of cotton.
10-04-00	Scientists Track Pollutant's Course Putting a whole new drift on drift - Dioxin in the Artic
10-03-00e	Indoor Foggers... Man has close call when home explodes
10-03-00d	Survey Shows State Laws Do Not Protect Children from Pesticides Used in Schools, Federal Government Still Has Not Acted. Beyond Pesticides/National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides (NCAMP) concludes that children in danger from daily pesticide use in schools across the nation.
10-03-00c	Pesticide Safety Bill Considered In Montgomery County, Maryland. Fred Langley, spokesman for Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment (RISE) warns PCOs... The message being sent to consumers as a result of a local bill like this is that pesticides are bad.. (Gee do you think.?? Shouldn't every consumer be aware that no pesticide is safe?) (People are hunting for information to make informed decisions.)
10-03-00b	A federal judge finally ordered Paul Walls, Sr., also known as "Paul the Spray Man," off to jail.
10-03-00a	Department of Agriculture does not have adequate authority to impose significant penalties and is hampered in its ability to monitor companies and individuals who violate pesticide regulations (Findings from Arizona which is applicable in most states)
10-03-00	Nicaragua banana workers may sue International Firms Workers say it has affected 22,000 people, directly or indirectly, and that DBCP-related illnesses have already killed at least 83 of their comrades. (People are hunting for justice.)
10-02-00	More Evidence that Even When Used As Directed - "Registered" POISONS Generally Harm People ... HazMat responded Tuesday to two separate Malathion-related incidents.
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The Secret Hazards of Pesticides: Inert Ingredients Attorney General of New York - New York State Office of the Attorney General Environmental Protection Bureau February 1996

The Secret Hazards of Pesticides: Inert Ingredients
Attorney General of New York - New York State
Office of the Attorney General
Environmental Protection Bureau
February 1996