| NEXT | October, 1999 |
| 9/22/99 | As New York City
relies on pesticides to battle St. Louis encephalitis, it has overlooked
new
technology for controlling mosquitoes that uses no poisons and eliminates
the risk of breeding a pesticide-resistant strain of insect.
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Is Roundup Killing
More Than the Weeds?----- A recent study which shows clear
links between exposure to the herbicide
glyphosate and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL),
a form of cancer that afflicts the lymphatic system, has caused worldwide
concern over the safety of the herbicide on humans.
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The USGS analysis
detected two or more pesticides in almost every stream sample
and about one-half of the well samples. Some of the most frequently
detected pesticides are suspected endocrine disrupters that may affect
reproduction or development of aquatic organisms or wildlife by interfering
with natural hormones. (people
drink this water ... what does this mean for us?)
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PIRATE FEAR - Controversy heats up about
chlorfenapyr,
a.k.a. Pirate--a pesticide some claim is the next DDT
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They told me that
your "registered" poisons were "safe"-----
THE HORRIBLE COST
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Trace pesticide combinations have been shown to induce abnormal thyroid hormone levels, which are associated with irritability, aggression and multiple chemical sensitivity, says the article. UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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Even though DDT’s direct effect on human health can be debated, its effect on the ecosystem must be considered a direct effect on our health as well. UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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The people are speaking....The public has lost faith in the health/industrial complex and their governments' assessment of product safety. The public wants to teach certain companies a lesson. UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Sciences report on hormone-disrupting chemicals in the environment. "presence of synthetic [human-created] hormone-disrupting chemicals in air, water, sediments, soil and food represents a major failure of the U.S. Public Health Service and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. " UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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Notice of Another unregistered "pesticide" UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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DDT ban in U.S. saves birds, but elsewhere
children
are dying.
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Of the more than 70,000 synthetic chemicals in commercial use today, only a small fraction have been adequately examined for toxic effects in humans and other life forms. UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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Exposure to household
pesticides before birth, added to the inheritance of certain genes,
appears to increase the risk of developing childhood
acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Indoor use of some insecticides by (home) owners and pesticide use in the
garden and on interior plants increased risks up to several fold.
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Pesticide use
and children's health: UW study aims to gauge the danger
No one doubts that children are especially vulnerable to pesticides. During early childhood development, cells divide rapidly, making them more susceptible to harm from toxins. And kids, being kids, set themselves up for exposure even though they are not in the fields. UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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The rising incidence of homosexuality, infertility, female problems like fibroids and endrometriosis, and reproductive cancers in both men and women have all been attributed to the effects of man-made estrogens. UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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The CU (Consumers
Union) analysis shows that EPA's actions are inadequate to protect public
health from the hazards of pesticides in foods.
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The amniotic fluid in which human infants grow (at about 4-5 months of pregnancy) is now contaminated with the same (or greater) levels of pesticide poison contamination as those found adversely effecting the Lake Apopka alligators! UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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Two Dangerous Organophosphates--------Going, Going, -----Gone! May be one day all pest control will "legally" be done using only some of the safer (and less expensive and more effective) alternatives I have spent a lifetime developing - what do you think? UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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Weed killer poses risks to infants. Pesticide lobbyists have so completely hobbled EPA in this process that there is not much room for hope for pesticide control |
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A recent study by eminent oncologists Dr. Lennart Hardell and Dr. Mikael Eriksson of Sweden, has revealed clear links between one of the world's biggest selling herbicide, glyphosate, to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of cancer. When Will You Begin to use the "Precautionary Principle" UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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HEALTH SCIENTISTS EXPLORE LINKS BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL TOXINS AND CHILDREN'S NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS... Why are you allowing the Poisoning of California Children? UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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Is it really "sound science" to simply ignore all of the risks, contaminates, transformation products, resistance, "inerts" and/or safer alternatives? And, why are all the farmers going bankrupt? UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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Use of the Most
Toxic "Registered" Poisons Increasing in California
Use of pesticides that are nerve poisons, reproductive toxins or cause cancer continues to increase in California, according to an analysis of pesticide use data recently released by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR). UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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California School Pesticide (Poison) Bill. The citizens of California know something is wrong with the pesticide usage in their state... soon it may be legal to wash you can in California. UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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Children's Deaths
From Arrhythmias May Have Pesticide Link
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Lyndon, Why are
You Still Poisoning the California Farmworkers?
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