June, 2001 - Pesticides: Articles, Letters and Comments.

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06-30	Pesticide Fishing Spreading in Mexico
06-29c	$6.5m toxic site clean-up to start soon After more than 13 years of controversy, a contractor has been appointed to decontaminate the former Fruitgrowers Chemical Company site. [ Chemical Company gets the profits, citizens get the shaft ]
06-29b	Canada's Supreme Court Allows Lawn-Pesticide Ban
06-29a	Long Island, New York: Cover-up of pesticide contamination in drinking wells
06-29	34 EXPOSED TO CHEMICAL Approximately 34 children and adults who were accidentally exposed to an insecticide were treated and released at Glens Falls Hospital Monday night after experiencing respiratory problems.
06-27	Six Seattle Parks Go Pesticide-Free Environmental and Community Groups Applaud City's Efforts
06-26a	16 Year Old Boy Dies, 41 hospitalized after phorate poisoning on tea plantation
06-26	Mississippi Board on Crop Dusting accused of bias, ineffectiveness
6-25 On Hold for Publication	Case-control study on concentrations of organohalogen compounds and titers of antibodies to Epstein-Barr virus antigens in the etiology of non-Hodgkin lymphoma
06-24	Pesticides and Panic Attacks
06-23a	Pesticides killed the birds, not West Nile - Audubon Learns Pesticide Is Leading Cause of Bird Deaths in New York - Audubon Calls on Other States to Test for Pesticides, Release Data
06-23	ALARM AGAINST PESTICIDE HAZARDS! Thousands of Sparrows massacred by pesticide in one village in Bangladesh
06-22c	GENETICALLY MODIFIED CANOLA BECOMING A WEED
06-22b	Environmental Medicine Needs Assessments Among Migrant Clinicians
06-22a	School Pest Management Amendment: Small victory for Schools and Children... Big Victory for Poison Industry (Why are groups signing off on letting children be poisoned without mandatory notification and using pesticide poisons only as a last resort?)
06-22	What to Do Following an Exposure to "Registered" Pesticides
06-21	Toxic Drift: Monsanto and the Drug War in Colombia
06-20a	Genetically Modified Foods: Are They a Risk to Human/Animal Health? By Arpad Pusztai, Ph.D. GM crops and food are being grown and consumed by the public, even though: there is little scientific study about their health risks safety test technology is inadequate to asses potential harm they can carry unpredictable toxins they may increase the risk of allergenic reactions
06-20	Study: Mammary Tumor Induced by Pesticides
06-19c	Controversy Begins Over New Monsanto Bt Cry3Bb Protectant [The word Protectant Means Pesticide - who are the "acceptable risks" for this frankenfood? The only thing Monsanto wants to protect is its profits.]
6-19b	StarLink - Government Report on Biotech Corn Disputed by Some Who Got Sick
06-19a	Scotts the nation's largest supplier of do-it-yourself lawn and garden products has damaged the environment with DDT and other chemicals
06-19	Pesticide "Use" And ADD/ADHD Problems
06-18	Pesticide Power Plays Fairfax warned that ordinance violates state law
06-17a	Examining the Endocrine Question
06-17	FDA's StarLink Investigation Flawed: Hundreds of Allergy Reports Ignored, Questionable Test Used Special Risks to Infants and Children Not Accounted For
06-16	Quebec teen honoured by UN agency
06-15b	In N.Y. - More people reported symptoms from pesticide than WNV
06-15a	EPA MIS-informs: children and chemicals/pesticides
06-15	New Study Finds Thousands of Field Tests of Genetically Engineered Crops Across the U.S. Experiments pose a contamination threat for farmers and the environment.
16-14b	Dow's poisons found in pool below cliffs in New Zealand Traces of chemicals 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D have been found in a pool of discoloured and smelly sea water at the foot of cliffs bordering Dow Agroscience's Waireka research station.
06-14a	Comments to the Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration's ("FDA") "Premarket Notice Concerning Bioengineered Foods" 66 Fed. Reg. 4706
06-14	Flight Attendants Tell Congress: Airplane Cabin Air May Be Toxic - (Synergism)
06-13a	Pesticides to list more ingredients - New law will put allergens, toxic chemicals on the label, but keep the formulas secret (Canada is moving ahead to protect its citizens... where is the U.S. and other countries?)
06-13	Internal NYPD memo re: 2001 mosquito spraying for WNV
06-11a	Maine Environmental Policy Institute releases report: OVERKILL: Using pesticides to control West Nile Virus mosquitoes in Maine may do more harm than good It describes in detail the history of the virus in the US, how it is transmitted, and documents the ineffective and dangerous use of chemicals that some municipalities have used to combat it.
06-11	Sebastopol pesticide rule in danger
06-09	List shows pesticides laced with unlabelled substances
06-08a	Boise Cascade threatens organic farmers with herbicide spraying
06-08	Rat Removers Place Tons of Poison to Protect Rare Birds
06-07d	Global bug shortage could end up costing shoppers Pollinator populations have been hit hard by increased pesticide use in recent years
06-07C	SCIENCE SUPPORTS PESTICIDE USE and RESPONSE BY STEVE TVEDTEN
06-07b	Sebastopol studies pesticide warning Proposal calls for residents to notify neighbors before spraying chemicals
06-07a	The Cynicism of Biotech Corporations by Jim Hightower
06-07	"Sins of the Farmers"
06-06	Consider the harm before spraying Indiscriminate spraying of everything that crawls or flies may do more damage to beneficial insects than to harmful ones. As the saying goes, when you kill a beneficial insect you inherit its work.
06-05	Skeeter Pesticide Company Fined $1M
06-03a	Children Age 2 - 13 used as guinea pigs in a clinical study mixing a Potent Antibiotic with Permethrin for head lice That combination is now being marketed to doctors.
06-03	Toxins Killing Birds In the fever to test for the West Nile Virus, post-mortems on up to 250 birds a day have uncovered a surprise: More birds are dying of pesticides, herbicides and lead.
06-02b	Chemicals and Crime: A Truly Toxic Effect ... a number of scientists and researchers now say there is substantial evidence that environmental toxins such as lead and pesticides are implicated, particularly when children are exposed to them early in life.
06-02a	Tenth Anniversary of disastrous explosion at Anaversa plant On that date in 1991, the plant located 11 blocks from the center of Córdoba, a city of 300,000, exploded sending 38,000 liters of some of the deadliest pesticides on the market into thick toxic clouds blanketing several nearby neighborhoods.
06-02	Ill Winds Carry Toxic Dust The toxins adhere to the soil particles and are carried on the wind along with the dust. When the dust is inhaled, the pesticides and heavy metals are taken in as well.
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