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| Nov. 1999 | NEXT |
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Men exposed to pesticides on the job have altered sex hormone levels, possibly reflecting pesticide-induced damage to the testicles, according to a study in the December issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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U.S. environmental officials say one of
the nation's most widely used pesticides (POISONS) poses a safety
risk for those who use it in their gardens, fields and homes.
(
and.... your department has demanded that all California nursery plant
soils be flooded with this "registered" nerve gas/ neuro toxin to "protect"
them against fire ants!)
(Thank
you DPR and Dow Chemical's Dursban....
what's next???? )
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Glyphosate .... widespread use
of this broad spectrum herbicide may have adverse consequences for non-target
beneficial species and biodiversity. (There
have also been reports that weeds are becoming resistant to the herbicide)
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Peruvian authorities began investigating Saturday how at least 26 schoolchildren, some as young as four, died in a remote Andean village after eating breakfast cereal apparently contaminated by insecticide. UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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Insecticide may have killed as many as 27,000 birds Workers finished picking up the carcasses Wednesday to prevent other animals from eating them and possibly becoming sick. Officials said there is no danger to humans. (no danger!! who are they kidding?) UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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Using the Sun as an Alternative to Methyl Bromide |
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A long-awaited report says... illness
from chronic organophosphate OP exposure is genuine and that symptoms
must be taken seriously.
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We were poisoned by Otis Termite & Pest Control in Knoxville TN. The pest control man is still out there treating homes.. a family's account of pesticide poisoning. UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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"Inert Ingredients in Pesticides: Who's Keeping Secrets?" Analysis for inerts as a part of an enforcement investigation is extremely rare. UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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It rained hard one day in July, and trout started popping to the surface like corks in a bathtub. Then came the frogs. Not a single fish, snake or snail survived. By dusk, thousands of carcasses lined the little river's tree-choked banks. Yet pesticide users don't want this to be a debate about pesticides! UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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Pesticides used in agriculture have
been linked with some frog deformities in Minnesota.
(Is it a leap
to suspect impact on humans??)
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Grower applied a fumigant, metam sodium, to a carrot field surrounding Cuyama Elementary School in northern SB County. ... Although the application took place over the weekend, both children and staff began exhibiting symptoms of pesticide exposure upon returning to school. UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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The huge rise in pesticide use since the second world war could be responsible for an untold number of illnesses ... (Science is on the side of the people... why aren't you?) UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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Seattle and King County will soon stop using the most hazardous pesticides to control bugs and weeds along roads, in parks and on other public land. (how on earth did man survive for all those millenia before these terrible toxins were invented? ) UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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EPA safety standards rest on the incorrect assumption that a bottle-fed newborn drinks the same amount of tap water relative to its body weight as an adult. In fact, for a mother to get the same dose of atrazine in relation to her body weight as a bottle-fed baby, she would have to drink three and a half gallons of tap water a day. UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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A new European Commission report recommends suspending the use of the persistent organochlorine insecticide lindane because of severe health effects and environmental data gaps. (Just another of your "registered" poisons in the news---) UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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Safety tests on permethrin use in homes in Britain and Germany have produced strikingly different results and recommendations. Pyrethroid "Safety" Testing Results Vary Greatly--- UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR |
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