November, 1999
Letters from Steve Tvedten
to the Environmental Protection Agency
and Department of Pesticide Regulation
(although directed to California, these issues impact every citizen of the U.S. and World)

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Dec. 1999 NEXT
11-27-99
organophosphate (OP) The COT Report------------   The people who have been studied carefully are those who are still working  and who are very fit. "The people who are not fit, who have had to give up work because of exposure to OPs, have not been properly studied. In that sense, this report is still inconclusive."     UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR
11-26-99

Even a Fool Should Understand Harm That has Been Done---------  "Absence of Certainty Is Not Synonymous with Absence of Risk."  You choose to simply allow the poison producers to "test' and consider only their own active poison ingredient  UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR
11-18-99a

Why Some "Regulators" Go Easy On Pesticide Poisons----
This is a serious betrayal of the public trust, and one that should be brought to the public's attention.   UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR
11-18-99
Registered" POISONS and how they got in your water---
  • CALIFORNIA TAP WATER CONTAMINATED BY TOXIC PESTICIDE
  • Dow Doing Great Things (and/or how they do it to you)-------
  • TRADE ASSOCIATIONS AND LOBBYING FRONTS (for chemical companies)
  • "ASTROTURF" LOBBYING
  • REVOLVING DOOR
  • TELL BIG BUSINESS: "YOU CAN'T BUY DEMOCRACY"
  • How corporations can twist science to support a pack of lies?  
UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR
11-17-99

Pesticide (POISON) Mist Forces Evacuations------
Mist from a weed-killing pesticide (POISON) blew  into this small San Joaquin Valley town, forcing 150 people to evacuate their homes and sending dozens to the hospital.  UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR
11-16-99

Toxic Play: Overuse of Pesticides Puts Children at Risk
The consequences of children's exposures to environmental toxins will be felt by our society in the 21st century through health affects these children will experience in later life and through the increased health costs that will be borne by us all.  UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR
11-15-99

CDC Agrees Malathion Caused Illness----  Internal state health department documents obtained by The Tampa Tribune earlier this year suggest health officials were pressured by the agriculture department to water down Shafey’s original report
11-14-99

Testing for Pesticide Poisoning-------  If you do not use dangerous, volatile "registered" POISONS/NEUROTOXINS you will not "need" to test to see how badly they are contaminating you!  UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR
11-13-99
Terminix degraded the environment, defied the law, and endangered Connecticut citizens.  Connecticut sues the pest control company. (why not other states also protecting citizens)  UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR
11-11-99

Surveillance for Acute Pesticide-Related Illness During the Medfly Eradication Program -- Florida, 1998.  ... the signal word Danger means this "registered" poison is capable of killing an average sized adult with only a taste to a teaspoon of the concentrated active poison ingredient if taken by mouth.  UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR
11-10-99

"The most dangerous offenders of the industrial age have wound up in the muds below, yet the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers persist in dumping untreated sediments into America's oceans and rivers - a practice as sophisticated as medieval man tossing the contents of his chamber pot out the window,"  UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR
11-09-99

Dow chemists state that Caffeine will kill you at the same rate that chlorpyrifos will kill you.  Isn't it against Federal law to make these type of claims?  
UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR
11-03-99
U. S. News and World Report on Dursban - Business & Technology Section - 11/8/99:  The stuff in the backyard shed --- The pesticide is effective and sells like mad. But is it safe for everyone?  UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR
11-01-99
Call for Papers -CHEMICAL STATES:  Transforming Bodies, Environments, and Nations (We have not, to borrow a science studies phrase, "followed the molecule.")  
UNANSWERED BY EPA or DPR
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