March, 2001 - Pesticides - Articles, Letters and Comments.

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	TRADE SECRETS: A MOYERS REPORT Correspondent Bill Moyers and Producer Sherry Jones uncover how our health and safety have been put at risk and why powerful forces don't want the truth to be known. This report is based on massive archive of secret chemical/pesticide industry documents as shocking as the "tobacco papers Visit PBS Website
	THE NATURE OF THINGS: TOXIC LEGACIES Toxic Legacies follows Dr. Guillette as she meets with eminent laboratory scientists in her search for corroboration and possible solutions. Neurotoxicologist David Carpenter of the University of Albany says, "I have suspected for a long time that pesticides cause these effects, but no one has demonstrated it so convincingly." US Schedule: June 15 at 10pm on Discovery Health Channel
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03-31	Can deadly arsenic come out of the woodwork? Banned in some countries, pressure-treated lumber has the potential to poison people
03-30a	Retailers asked to Remove Toxic Pesticide from Shelves New York Attorney General Says "Why Wait." [Thank you, New York, Alaska, Connecticut, Guam, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Where are the other Attorneys General?]
03-30 Worth Repeating	New Principle to Protect Human Health and the Environment Wingspread Statement on the Precautionary Principle
03-28	ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE REBUKES AMERICAN CHEMISTRY COUNCIL (After comments made on "Trade Secrets") This means a good lie isn't going as far as it used to!!
03-26	After 'Silent Spring,' Chemical Industry Put Spin on All It Brewed From Chemical Industry Memo: "The term `public relations' is morally bankrupt," a memorandum cautioned, "and yet, done properly, is exactly what is needed to make Responsible Care work."
03-24e	US EPA signs pesticide settlement Environmental Protection Agency must review the impact of crop pesticides on childrens' health.
03-24d	The Dangers To Children Who Have Been Exposed to Pesticides Children who have been exposed to household insecticides and professional extermination methods within the home are three to seven times more likely to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) compared with children who have not been exposed to pesticides.
03-24c	J.T. Eaton & Co. suspends the sale of certain rodenticide, bird and insecticide products Suspension came after EPA inquiry
03-24b	Activist pleads innocent to federal charge Charges: Publicly insulting a government employee and slapping him on the butt
03-24a	Thousands take shelter following Dow leak Thousands of people took shelter in their homes last night after a ruptured disk at Dow Chemical released a strong chemical odour [Another Bhopal could be in our near future.]
03-24	Killing the Future - Pesticide Spraying in Schools By Jackie Alan Giuliano, Ph.D.
3-23c	BILL MOYERS RESPONDS TO CHEMICAL INDUSTRY ATTACK ON INVESTIGATIVE REPORT BASED ON CONFIDENTIAL INDUSTRY DOCUMENTS
3-23b	NEW YORK CITY TO OPEN BIDS FOR WEST NILE SPRAY CONTRACT-- THREE-YEAR PLAN FOR MASSIVE HAZARDOUS SPRAYING–INCLUDING AERIAL SPRAYING of MALATHION (FYFANON ULV) and NALED (DIBROM) (I guess they didn't think they injured or killed enough people last year.)
03-23a	"Trade Secrets": The Latest in a Long Line of Conspiracies charges Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. Hopefully, the public and the media will be outraged by this longstanding evidence of recklessness and conspiracies, graphically reinforced by Moyers’ program.
03-23	Organophosphate (Nerve Gas) Sheep Dips and the Hen "test" and the Blood/Brain "Barrier". (Someday - soon - people will ask governments and chemical companies what they knew, and when they knew it. The answer to this will bring on an outcry from the injured, dying and the families of the dead and be overwhelming.) MUST READ!!!!
03-22b	The Chemical Papers: Secrets of the Chemical Industry Exposed At its core, the Moyers show asks a deeply troubling question: With more than 75,000 synthetic chemicals having been released into the environment, what happens as our bodies absorb them, and how can we protect ourselves?
03-22a	DuPont knew their product would create a problem. - Attack of the Killer Fungus For twenty years, farmers in the area had used the pesticide Benlate to ward off fungus. Although the region's generally warm and dry growing season had usually kept fungal disease in check, the DuPont salesman had advised growers to spray anyway -- as "insurance."
03-22	Biological Monitoring Survey of Organophosphorus Pesticide Exposure among Pre-school Children in the Seattle Metropolitan Area (Yes Virginia, you are being poisoned.)
03-21	Longitudinal Investigation of Dietary Exposure to Selected Pesticides - Chlorpyrifos was detected in 38.3% of the solid food samples, malathion in 75.2%, and p,p´-DDE in 21.4%.
03-20	Fairfax, California - another town bans pesticides Putting people before pesticides
03-19a	CANADIAN PAPER RAISES SERIOUS QUESTIONS ABOUT ORIGINS OF MAD COW DISEASE FAO AND WHO WARN: 30% OF CHEMICAL POISONS USED IN WORLD POSE SERIOUS THREAT TO HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT
Press Release	ORGANIZATIONS URGE THE PUBLIC TO TUNE IN TO “TRADE SECRETS: A BILL MOYERS' REPORT” -- AN INVESTIGATION OF THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
03-18a	Pesticides and Public Health: Integrated Methods of Mosquito Management (EPA says pesticides have a role in public health.)
03-18	N.Y. PCOs To Follow New School Pesticide Use Regulation Starting July 1 - (Parent and Neighbor Notification)
03-17	Study shows that children's toys accumulate residue from pesticide foggers
03-16c	DDT treatment turns male fish into mothers Something fishy happens when the pesticide DDT gets into eggs--it can transform genetically male fish into apparent females. These altered males are fertile, able to lay eggs that produce young, according to a new study. (There is not a real big leap up the food chain to humans.)
03-16b	Toxic Inheritance - Fathers' Job May Mean Cancer for Kids
03-16a	Synergism is not even considered when you "register" your POISONS! Study results suggest that exposure to physiologically relevant doses of PB, DEET, and permethrin, alone or in combination, leads to neurobehavioral deficits and region-specificalterations in AChE and acetylcholine receptors.
03-16	Think global, eat local, says German farm minister Europe must protect itself from the threat of genetically modified crops coming from the United States, German farm minister Renate Kuenast said in a newspaper article on the World Consumer Rights Day on Thursday.
03-15b	Irish Doctors Worry About GE Allergies in Children & Other Hazards The group is concerned about the potential for antibiotic resistance as a result of GM foods in our daily diet, and the increasing levels of toxins they introduce into food.
03-15a	"Registered" POISONS Harm Workers - And The "Pests" Are Still There Eating The Bananas Within the past 25 years, 103 former plantation workers in Nicaragua and their offspring have reportedly died and 22,000 are seriously ill as a result of regular contact with the toxic fumigant, which is now classified as "extremely hazardous" by the World Health Organization.
03-15	THE NATURE OF THINGS INVESTIGATES TOXIC LEGACIES
03-11a	TESTS FIND BIOTECH INGREDIENTS IN KELLOGG'S PRODUCTS
03-11	Texas - Pesticide, herbicide use in cities' parks studied Park managers in the state's 27 biggest cities used at least 75,000 pounds of weed and bug killers in 1998, the nonprofit Texas Pesticide Information Network said Wednesday.
03-09	Two Articles from the Agribusiness Examiner DECEPTIVE CLAIMS AND IRRELEVANT ANECDOTES: “TRADE SECRETS’:
03-08a	Organic Versus "Registered" POISON Farming ``The day will come when organic farming is considered normal, mainstream''
03-08	Monsanto's Dirty Tricks: Atrazine Brazen cheating on the scale of IBT or Craven Laboratories is rare--or, at least, rarely uncovered. But subtle, sophisticated slanting of scientific research is part of the everyday strategy of chemical companies enmeshed in regulatory battles.
03-07	Pesticide Exposure Harmful to People FETAL DEATH DUE TO BIRTH DEFECTS CHROMOSOMAL ABNORMALITIES
03-06c	New York Attorney General calls pesticide industry letter sent to schools deceptive The Attorney General is concerned that RISE’s mailing will be relied upon by school facilities managers and administrators, and that its deceptive claims might be repeated to parents, students and school staff.
03-06b	Gaps in Pesticide Reporting Lead to Underestimates of Risk These limits to a pesticide-illness reporting system profoundly restrict efforts to gauge the real health costs of pesticide exposure, not just for farming families but for all people who are exposed.
03-06a	Dangerous Lawn Chemicals
03-06	Dead fish found in pond on golf course Rotonda Golf & Country Club director of operations Matt Mootz confirmed the golf course had sprayed to control the grasses around the pond... only uses EPA approved Roundup
03-05k	Toxic Pesticide drifts onto Florida Church
03-05j	FUNGICIDE POLLUTION COSTS DUPONT MILLIONS
03-05i	Are pesticides killing pelicans?
03-05h	Despite protest and lawsuit from business - Supreme Court Upholds EPA Rule Methods
03-05g	Pesticides Linked to Miscarriage Living close to areas where agricultural pesticides are applied will boost the risk of fetal death due to birth defects.
03-05f	Weed develops Roundup resistance Seeds gathered from the surviving weeds were germinated in greenhouses. Then the plants were doused with as much as 10 times the amount of Roundup typically used in fields.
03-05e	AN ORDINARY MIRACLE - Bigger harvests, without pesticides or genetically modified crops? Farmers can make it happen by letting weeds do the work.
03-05d	30% of pesticides (POISONS) to 3rd world are poor quality About 30% of pesticides marketed in developing countries, with an estimated market value of $900 million annually, do not meet internationally accepted quality standards, United Nations agencies said Thursday.
03-05c	EPA Asked to Disclose Inert Pesticide Materials Four state attorneys general have asked a federal court to order the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to disclose the names of "inert" ingredients on pesticide product labels.
03-05b	Drinking water to be checked for pesticides
03-05a	Canadian doctors call for pesticide ban
03-05	Two More Towns Go Nontoxic
03-04	Australia and New Zealand demand that all incoming planes (and people) be sprayed with pesticides before debarking.
03-02	Toxic Legacies ... follow up on the dramatic results of the study of Yaqui Indian Children and the impact of pesticides Canadian Schedule: MARCH 14 AT 9 P.M. ON CBC US Schedule: June 15 at 10pm on Discovery Health Channel
03-01	Engineered Corn Turns Up in Seed - Companies Detect 'StarLink' Protein Aventis, creator of this monster wants the EPA to retroactively approve StarLink for human consumption (More people will become "acceptable risks" in the name of commerce)
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