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Fertilizers
A thought: If you are as pleased as I am to find that these articles are still available, then:
How about taking a minute to write a note of thanks to the newspapers? -- barb
Fear In The Fields -- How Hazardous Wastes Become Fertilizer -- Spreading
Heavy Metals On Farmland Is Perfectly Legal, But Little Research Has Been Done
To Find Out Whether It's Safe
By Duff Wilson, Seattle Times Staff Reporter; Business: Thursday, July 03, 1997
Copyright 1997, Seattle Times Co.
You must register to use the Seattle Times Archive service, but its free. If this URL doesn't
work, try an advanced search of their site. -- barb
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=2547772&date=19970703
or via archive search:
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=2547772&date=19970703&query=Fear+in+the+fields%3A+How+hazardous+wastes+become+fertilizer%2C
Toxins in Familiar Places - Arsenic and old waste
By Jackie Hunt Christensen; Sunday, September 15, 2002; ©2002 San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/09/15/ED1334.DTL&type=printable
Also see EHN's section on Fertilizers
http://ehnca.org/www/ehnlinx/f.htm#Fertilizers
Food
Environmental Working Group
Shoppers' Guide
"The twelve most contaminated fruits and vegetables."
http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/Reports/Shoppers/Chapter2.html
Home Pesticides
Inerts
(secret ingredients in pesticides)
"Inert" is a misnomer when it comes to pesticides! Are you FULLY informed? -- barb
- Advocate On-line, Nova Scotia
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/RATE/Inerts.html
- The Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice
"The Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice serves as a resource
center for community groups working on environmental justice issues. We provide
information / publications; direct assistance to groups; outreach, referral and network
development, and training / leadership development."
E-Mail: Penny Newman at admin@ccaej.org
Pesticide Organizing Project
The entire page is worth reading, but specifically . . .
"Myth #3: I use Roundup and we all know it's safe. Afterall, it's sold in the grocery store.
"There are two types of ingredients in Roundup and other pesticides - active and inert.
The active ingredients are those designed to kill the target pest. The "inert" ingredient
does not mean it's non-toxic or harmless. It is the secret ingredient added to the product
to either preserve the active ingredients, make them easier to apply or improve their
killing ability. For example, some inerts soften the skin of the pest, making it easier
for the active ingredient to get into the pest and kill it.
"Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, has been assumed to have low animal
toxicity because the enzyme system which it inhibits is specific to plants. But studies now
show that Glyphosate can cause acute symptoms including eye and skin irritation
and nausea, conjunctivitis, vomiting and diarrhea. California statistics show that in 1994,
glyphosate ranked eighth for most number of complaints filed with the state by
people poisoned by the product.
"Glyphosate can also drift off-site during applications. Studies show that from 14-78% of
it can as far as 1300 feet downwind. Once on the ground, it can persist in soils from
3 days to a year.
"Misleading advertising has led many applicators to consider glyphosate nearly non-toxic
. In 1996, the New York State Attorney General won an injunction against the
chemical's manufacturer, Monsanto, for falsely claiming that the pesticide is as safe
as table salt. [Emphasis added. This was the very statement used in a meeting with the
Alameda County, California pesticide experts held in Oakland in April 2001. I was present. -- barb]
"The inert ingredients [emphasis added] in Roundup may pose more danger
than it's active ingredient. Japanese emergency medicine professionals reported in Lancet,
the American Medical Journal, that the "inert" ingredient in the herbicide formulation,
Roundup, accounts for the acute toxicity they had found in patients poisoned (some
fatally) by Roundup.
"Symptoms included vomiting and gastrointestinal pain, swelling of the lungs and
pneumonia, reduction of blood pressure, clouding of consciousness, and red blood cell
destruction. The "inert" ingredient they identified in Roundup was polyoxyethyleneamine
(POEA) actually referring to a family of chemicals. It is added to Roundup to help
evenly spread the active ingredient, glyphosate, on target plants.
"EPA reports that it is common for 1,4-dioxane to be present with POEA. The International
Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) consider 1,4-dioxane and animal carcinogen and
EPA considers it to be a probable human carcinogen.
"We continue to not know what is in Roundup and other pesticides because the
manufacturers are not required to list them on the labels and have claimed that inerts
are 'confidential business information that should not be available to the public.' EPA
allows more than 2,000 chemicals to be used as inerts - many cause toxic effects including
cancer and at least 382 were themselves used as the pesticide active ingredient.
"In fact, hazardous waste have been allowed to be 'recycled' into pesticides as inerts. You
may be spraying chemicals like xylene, chloroform, methylene chloride, toluene and
other toxic chemicals. As one misguided EPA official said, 'it's a way of disposing of
hazardous materials.'"
http://www.ccaej.org/projects/pesticides.htm
- EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs
Federal Register and Pesticide Registration Notices on Pesticide Inerts
http://www.epa.gov/opprd001/inerts/notices.htm
- Inert Ingredients No Longer Used In Pesticide Products
Federal Register: June 11, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 112)
Scroll down to see the lists. -- barb
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/1999/June/Day-11/p14759.htm
- Pesticide Regulation (PR) Notice 97-6
Use of Term "Inert" in the Label Ingredients Statement
"I. BACKGROUND
" The terms "active ingredient" and "inert ingredient" have been
defined in FIFRA since 1947 and pesticide labeling regulations
require that the ingredients statement use the terms "Active
ingredients" and "Inert ingredients" as the headings for the
ingredients statement information. An active ingredient is one
that prevents, destroys, repels or mitigates a pest, and each
active ingredient must be identified by name on the label together
with its percentage by weight. An inert ingredient is simply any
ingredient in the product that is not pesticidally active. Unless
an inert ingredient is determined to be highly toxic, it is not
required to be identified by name or percentage on the label, but
the total percentage of such ingredients must be declared. Neither
FIFRA nor the regulations define the term "inert ingredient" on the
basis of toxicity, hazard or risk to humans, non-target species, or
the environment.
" Most "inert" ingredients are not known to pose health or
environmental concerns; however, EPA has long known and
acknowledged that some inert ingredients are not benign to human
health or the environment. The "inert" ingredients in some
products may be more toxic or pose greater risks than the active
ingredient. [emphasis added] Since 1987, EPA has been actively evaluating
new andexisting inert ingredients for their toxicity before allowing their
use in pesticide products. EPA will also be reassessing food
tolerances for existing inert ingredients in pesticide products.
EPA has not taken the additional step, however, of departing from
its traditional use of the term "inert ingredient" on pesticide
labeling.
"In 1996, EPA began a Consumer Labeling Initiative (CLI), which
has as its goal the improvement of consumer labeling (focussing on
pesticide products). In the first phase of the CLI, one-on-one
interviews were conducted with users of household pesticides
(indoor insecticides, outdoor pesticides, and household hard
surface cleaners) and non-pesticide cleaning agents. Among other
things, the interviews demonstrated that many consumers have a
misleading impression of the term "inert ingredient," believing it
to indicate water or other harmless ingredients. A number of
comments from the public and the consumer interviews recommended
that EPA discontinue the use of the term. By this notice, EPA is
implementing that recommendation with respect to pesticide
labeling."
http://www.epa.gov/opppmsd1/PR_Notices/pr97-6.html
- Inert Ingredients in Pesticides: Who's Keeping Secrets
by Caroline Cox
JOURNAL OF PESTICIDE REFORM/ FALL 1999 … VOL.19, NO. 3
http://www.safe2use.com/poisons-pesticides/inerts/cox-inerts.htm
- Red Hen's INFORMATION ... AND THE SECRETS OF INERT INGREDIENTS
Click on Inert on sidebar at left. -- barb
http://www.primenet.com/~redhen/intro.html
- Pesticide Action Network
Search PAN's site for INERTS! -- barb
http://www.panna.org/panna/
- Dirty Dozen Campaigner
A Publication of PANNA
"1. Approximately 40 of the "inert" ingredients are known
to cause cancer, nerve damage, other chronic effects, or
adverse reproductive effects. These "inerts" include
asbestos, carbon tetrachloride (banned as
an active pesticide ingredient), and trichloroethylene. In
1987, EPA indicated these inerts must be listed on the
pesticide label, but there is no evidence that EPA enforces
this policy. All the other 1,400 or so inert ingredients do
not have to be listed on pesticide labels.
" 2. Approximately 65 of the secret ingredients are
considered "potentially toxic inerts/high priority for
testing" because their chemical structure or existing data
suggest toxicity. These "inerts" include xylene, cresols, and
methyl bromide (a highly toxic fumigant and neurotoxin). EPA
decided not to require testing for these ingredients."
more . . .
10/00: Unfortunately, the document in which I found this quote,
could not be found again through the gopher search engine. -- barb
http://www.igc.org/panna/resources/_pestis/PESTIS.1995.36.html
If the above link does not work, search their site for "Dirty Dozen." -- barb
- Global Pesticide Campaigner,
Volume 8, Number 3, September 1998: Inert Ingredients in Pesticides.
Toxic Secrets - Inert Ingredients in Pesticides
by Sandra Marquardt, Caroline Cox and Holly Knight
NOTE: If link doesn't work search http://www.igc.org/panna/ for INERTS. -- barb
http://www.igc.org/panna/resources/_pestis/PESTIS980925.2.html
- New Study Points to Inadequate Testing of Pesticides
March 26, 1999
http://www.panna.org/panna/resources/panups/panup_19990326.dv.html
- PANUPS: "Inert" Pesticide Ingredients Pose Hazards, July 28, 1997.
http://www.igc.org/panna/resources/_pestis/PESTIS.1997.66.html
- Women Unite to Resist the Pesticide Onslaught
International Gathering Condemns
Worsening Pesticide Impacts on Women and Children - 11-5-1999
http://www.poptel.org.uk/panap/archives/womandpe.htm
- The Secret Hazards of Pesticides: Inert Ingredients
Attorney General of New York
New York State
Office of the Attorney General
Environmental Protection Bureau
February 1996
This includes a very informative table. Remember folks, a lot of the inerts are also the same
chemicals used to make synthetic scents. It's all hidden in fragrances by the phrase, "Trade Secret
Laws," and in pesticides by the misleading word, Inert. But, it is YOUR body. Think! -- barb
http://www.oag.state.ny.us/environment/inerts96.html
-- end inerts --
To top of page.
Insect Repellents
Also see EHN's information on West Nile Virus, General Links, page W / WNV
http://ehnca.org/www/ehnlinx/w.htm#WNV
As the saying goes: Dog bites man is not a story. Man bites dog IS a story.
DEET-based repellents repel mosquitos is not a story. Some DEET-FREE repellents work as well
as some DEET-based repellents IS a story.
EHN does not recommend any product, thereapy, etc., so what I write next is not EHN info.
Here I'll put on my MCSbarbie hat and say, I've had great success with Crocodile and I've also
heard from a nurse about the effectiveness of, but not used, pure Mexican vanilla, mixed equal
amount of water. (Don't use USA vanilla as it has alcohol and sugar.) Above all, listen
to your own body. Nothing matters that works for me, if it does not work for YOU! -- barb
- Bug Spray Worse Than the Bite?
Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 102, Number 11, November 1994
Back in the 30% and more days . . . remember some DEET products are at 100%. -- barb
http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1994/102-11/forum.html
- Canadian Agency Bans Some Common Insect Repellent Products,
While Duke Scientist Shows Neurological Effects
Children's Health Environmental Coalition
Ýhttp://www.checnet.org/healthehouse/education/articles-detail.asp?Main_ID=452
- CanadianNaturopathic Association
Naturopathic Perspective on West Nile Virus ... includes repellent suggestions
http://www.naturopathicassoc.ca/wnv.htm
- Crocodile Repellent!
http://www.safe2use.com/dancing-roots/index.htm
- Purchase: http://www.safe2use.com/store/croc.htm
- DEET - This is NOT a recommendation!
Frankly, I do not use DEET. Further, I am appallaed at news shows -- and I've written letters
that have been ignored! -- which run clips of people being sprayed on their exposed skin with
DEET, also with footage of a pregnant woman being examined and the clear message that
DEET was fine for pregnant women. Where is the science to back that up?? I suggest you
do your own research before taking advice from a TV news doctor. Here's a start. -- barb
- Herbals Lag as Mosquito Repellents
DEET-Containing Products Far More Effective, Study Finds
By Susan Okie; Washington Post Staff Writer; Thursday, July 4, 2002; Page A01
"...Two botanical repellents performed as well as some DEET-based
products. One, containing oil of eucalyptus -- Repel Lemon
Eucalyptus Lotion Insect Repellent, which is also marketed as Fite
Bite Plant-Based Insect Repellent -- protected participants for an
average of 120 minutes. Another, containing 2 percent soybean oil,
Bite Blocker for Kids, worked for an average of 95 minutes. ..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A22061-2002Jul3
InHerbals Lag as Mosquito Repellents, we read: "Consumers have applied DEET
more than 8 billion times in the past 45 years, and its overall safety record is excellent,
researchers said." BUT, we still have a lot of unanswered questions when it comes to soaring
rates of various environmentally linked diseases. Until those questions are answered, with more
than the standard one-word, non-explanation explanation, "UNEXPLAINED," isn¼t
PREVENTION a wiser course of action? So, for me, it¼s the non-DEET based repellents.
And here, I'll tell you my personal preference, but it's up to you to try for yourself! EHN
and I do not tout products. The only reason I'm stating what I use is, I've been so often asked.
Crocodile -- all-natural, organically grown, herbal-based protection for the skin.
I can handle its odor and it's safe on my skin and the skin of my grandchildren. However,
I've yet to learn if my daughter who has eczema can use it . . . It's available from
Dancing Roots (http://www.dancingroots.com/) and from
Safe2Use (http://www.safe2use.com/dancing-roots/croc-about.htm). -- barb
- "DUKE PHARMACOLOGIST SAYS ANIMAL STUDIES ON DEET'S BRAIN EFFECTS
WARRANT FURTHER TESTING AND CAUTION IN HUMAN USE"
The last paragraph states the concerns of Dr. Abou-Donia quite clearly:
" 'The take home message is to be safe and cautious when using insecticides," said Abou-Donia. 'Never use insect repellents on infants, and be wary of using them on children in general. Never combine insecticides with each other or use them with other medications. Even so simple a drug as an antihistamine could interact with DEET to cause toxic side effects. Don't spray your yard for bugs and then take medications. Until we have more data on potential interactions in humans, safe is better than sorry.' "
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/med/deet.htm
And because so many are so interested in repellents because of the hyped-to-dread WNV ...
- TOP 10 LIES ABOUT WEST NILE VIRUS
http://www.abstractblack.com/ledermanvirus.html
Integrated Pest Management
Biological Control Virtual Information Center
http://ipmwww.ncsu.edu/biocontrol/newindex.html
Biology and Control of Insect Vectors
UC scientists have discovered several natural enemies of GWSS
http://danr.ucop.edu/news/speeches/vectors.html
CalEPA, Dept. of Pesticide Regulation
http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/
California, University of, Pest Management Guidelines
http://axp.ipm.ucdavis.edu/default.html
CANADA
ETI Environmental
http://www.toxint.com/
- A national assessment of all aerial spraying in the U.S.
R.K. Simon, Ph.D.
Environmental & Toxicology International
http://ehnca.org/www/ehnhompg/alertspr.htm
- ETI Pesticide Patch for Pesticide Monitoring
"... What is the Cost of the Pesticide Patch Analysis?
"The routine cost of the patch for the analysis by ETI's pesticides screen is $ 150 per patch.
This testing will provide analysis for about 35 common pesticides used for termite
control, interior pest control, lawn pesticide control and other uses. A report with a
list of pesticides tested and quantitative levels for any found will be provided by ETI.
The analysis usually takes about 7 days after ETI receives the patch.
"Special Pricing for Staten Island, New York.
"ETI is providing special pricing of $ 75.00 per patch for Staten Island, New York residents.
Please enclose your check with the shipment of the patch. ETI does not accept credit cards. ..."
http://www.toxint.com/page41.html
- Topics discussed
Info on VOCs, Inert ingredients of Dibrom®, Pyrethroids, Dursban, etc. -- barb
http://www.toxint.com/page30.html
- How to Evaluate Environmental Hazards in Your Home
http://www.toxint.com/page22.html
- Toxicity of "Inert" Ingredients in the Pesticide Dibrom³ (Naled)
http://www.toxint.com/page25.html
Fabulous Web Sites!
Ted Radcliffe and Bill Hutchison
Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
Found via the Wayback Machine. -- barb
http://web.archive.org/web/19971015110717/http://www.ent.agri.umn.edu/academics/classes/ipm/favorite.htm
Florida, University of
http://gnv.ifas.ufl.edu/~entweb/publicat.htm
The Happy Gardener
Residential IPM: Contra Costa County, California
http://www.happygardener.com/text/about1.htm
Get Set, Inc - NonToxic Pest Control
http://www.getipm.com
INSTITUTE OF PEST MANAGEMENT
Teaching Intelligent Pest ManagementÅ
http://www.learnipm.com/
Integrated Pest Management Program, List 2000 - San Francisco
http://www.sfgov.org/ipm/list2000.htm
Integrated Pest Management for Schools
(Link out via frames from their homepage. -- barb)
http://www.spcpweb.org
Iowa State University, Integrated Pest Management at
http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/
LadyBugs
Marin County [California] Integrated Pest Management Program
http://ehnca.org/www/ehnlinx/marinipm.htm
Mosquito Magnet -
Introducing The Most Effective Control of Biting Insects. Ever.
http://www.mosquitomagnet.com/
National Science Foundation, Center for IPM
http://ipmwww.ncsu.edu/cipm/
NON-TOXIC PEST MANAGEMENT PROGRAM IN A SCHOOL SETTING
http://www.safe2use.com/ipm/ipm-program.ht
Pennsylvania IPM Program
http://paipm.cas.psu.edu/
Radcliffe's IPM World Textbook
Edward (Ted) B. Radcliffe and William (Bill) D. Hutchison, originators of this site,
are faculty members in the Department of Entomology, College of Agricultural,
Food, and Environmental Science; University of Minnesota
http://www.ipmworld.umn.edu/
San Francisco IPM Program
http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/environment/pestord.htm
SELECTIVITY OF INSECTICIDES AND MITICIDES
U.C. Davis
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/r107300811.html
Slug it out naturally with your garden's unwanted insect pests
by Janet Macunovich
http://detnews.com/homestyl/9712/06/growcon/growcon.htm
Terra Viva Organics
(Click on image to enter site and then link out to "Pest Control." --barb)
http://www.tvorganics.com/
University of California Statewide IPM Project
- Pests of Agricultural Crops, Floriculture and Ornamental Nurseries,
and Commercial Turfgrass UC Pest Management Guidelines
All contents copyright © 2001 The Regents of the University of California.
The GWSS isn't included, nor is the wine industry. Do they not care?
Or, is GWSS not a such a big deal? -- barb
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/GENERAL/pesticides.html
- View Preprocessed Statewide or County [Pesticide Use] Reports
And, we call this Integrated Pest Management ... notice it is not non-toxic pest control! -- barb
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PUSE/prepared.html
The Washington Toxics Coalition
" ... is a non-profit, member-based organization dedicated to protecting public health
and the environment by identifying and promoting alternatives to toxic chemicals. We
use research, grassroots organizing, publications and presentations, conferences,
and our Toxics Hotline to provide reliable information about preventing pollution in
homes, schools, workplaces, agriculture, and industry."
http://www.watoxics.org/index.html
-- end IPM --
Pesticide, Fertilizer, & GMO Articles
AllerCare Dust Mite Powder Recall
Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America, Florida Chapter Inc.
http://www.aafaflorida.org/recall_1_18_00.htm
Alliance for Human Research Protection
AHRP is a national network of lay people and professionals dedicated to advancing
responsible and ethical medical research practices, to ensure that the human rights,
dignity and welfare of human subjects are protected, and to minimize the risks
associated with such endeavors.
"Comprehensive scientific review concluded: All pesticides pose serious health risks to
humans-- especially children ... Sat, 8 May 2004
http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/04/05/08.html
American Nurses Association
Search this site for "pesticide" . . . also "fragrance" . . . you'll learn something! -- barb
http://nursingworld.org/
Barren Justice
By Sasha Lilley; CorpWatch, May 13, 2004
"Francisco Gonz·les believes he lost his chance to be a father because of the pesticide
DBCP. 'I can't have children,' says Gonz·les who began working in the banana
plantations of Chinandega, Nicaragua, in 1975, when he was 20 years old. 'It's very
painful, you know, each one of us would like to have our own child, a child of our
blood. But I was poisoned.' ..."
http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/inequal/labor/2004/0614pesticide.htm
British Society for Allergy, Environmental and Nutritional Medicine
New report: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity ‚ recognition and management
K Eaton & H Anthony (moderators)
This report considers the effects of very low doses of the toxic substances to which we are
all exposed, concluding that current toxicological models, and the policies that flow
from them, are inadequate. The BSAENM identify MCS as an allergic response to
environmental contamination, urging the government and other decision-makers to adopt policies which will reduce people¼s overall toxic load.
åIn spite of the availability of potent medicines, the numbers of the population who claim
to have chronic illness rose 66 per cent between 1972 and 1996¼, the report observes.
åThere is a prevalence of åmedically unexplained¼ symptoms, and conventional medical
management for these conditions is, by definition, inadequate. Toxicant-induced loss of
tolerance (TILT) may cause conditions with many different medical and surgical
diagnoses (including asthma, eczema, rhinitis, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,
irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn¼s disease, migraine, depression and chronic fatigue)
ä as well as many tiresome symptoms which are largely disregarded by the medical
profession.¼
http://www.pan-uk.org/Projects/Exposure/pex/pexartilces/MCSrep.htm
The Bug Man - Richard Fagerlund
The Bug Man's column appears Saturdays in the San Francisco Chronicle. -- barb
http://www.askthebugman.com
Californians for Pesticide Reform -- CPR
Poisoning the Air
" ... Many doctors are inadequately trained to diagnose pesticide poisoning. ... "
http://www.pesticidereform.org/resources/poisonAir/poisonAir.html
Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (CCAEJ)
The Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice serves as a resource
center for community groups working on environmental justice issues. We provide
information / publications; direct assistance to groups; outreach, referral and network
development, and training / leadership development.
http://www.ccaej.org/
- Taken from the Summer 1998 issue of Synergy
Chrissy's Story; The Poisons Around Us; Pesticide Myths of Safety
"... While the city does nothing, I have been labeled crazy, emotional, and responsible
for all the bad press my daughter's death has brought Fontana. My question is this: why
are we appalled at chemical warfare in other countries, when we permit it in our
own backyard?
To answer the rhetorical question: Because it is far easier to believe government protects the
public and industry tells us the truth . . . Sadly, it too often is only AFTER THE FACT of illness
or death of a loved one that people begin researching the problem. And then, they are up
against industry propaganda that labels them malingerers, psychosomatic, pains in the collective
backside of humanity, . . . and who wants to be so labeled? It seems easier to believe
government protects ...
Janine Matelko, I am so very sorry to learn you lost your daughter to pesticide poisonings.
Because you chose to share your story, perhaps another child may live.
http://www.ccaej.org/projects/pesticides.htm
Behold this Dreamer:
What Happened to Marie ... at a Southern Baptist University
http://members.aol.com/DonationDrive/Dream.html
CDC: Surveillance for Acute Insecticide-Related Illness Associated with
Mosquito-Control Efforts --- Nine States, 1999--2002
Now, what I wonder, is does CDC look to long-term effects, say of Malathion poisoning?
We know that we lost Julia Kendall to leukemia that developed as a result of malathion poisoning.
Surveillance for acute illnesses is one thing, but what about the long-term effects, including
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Parkinson's, etc? -- barb
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5227a1.htm
Chicago Wilderness Magazine
The Great Spray Debate: Spring 2003
Could synthetic sprays eliminate our best defenseagainst West Nile virus ã a healthy ecosystem?
by Arthur Melvile Pearson
Let me assure you, that inhaling the residue of pyrethroid pesticides, sprayed in the workplace,
can cause health problems too. My body responded with tinnitus and then spontaneously
cratering sores, that took a good half year or better to heal. Pesticides are NOT safe! -- barb
"... According to the National Pesticide Information Center, inhaling pyrethroids ã
if you happened to be outdoors during spraying, for instance ã can cause its own
flu-like symptoms: "coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, runny or stuffy nose,
chest pain, or difficulty breathing...rash, itching, or blisters." Those most at risk are the
young, the elderly, those with asthma, andx those with chemical sensitivity.
"As for long-term risks, the EPA has determined that pyrethroids are carcinogenic,
although which risk classification remains to be determined. The No Spray Coalition
reports that the various elements in Anvil are either known or suspected to be toxic to
the liver, kidneys, the gastrointestinal tract, and the respiratory tract. ..." [Emphasis added/.]
http://chicagowildernessmag.org/issues/spring2003/spraydebate.html
Danger in the Air.(pesticide use in US airliners)
Author/s: Karin Winegar
Mother Jones- July-August, 1998
" ... Several major U.S. airlines, including American, Continental, Delta, TWA, and
US Airways, confirm that they use pesticides regularly or occasionally, but would not
disclose what types they use. ..."
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1329/n4_v22/20908466/print.jhtml
DURSBAN CASE STUDY: The Toxic Pesticide the EPA Has Declined (So Far) to Ban
Inaction Could Harm Your Health
David Case is a reporter for TomPaine.com. - 1999
He writes about the environment for the magazine.
http://www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/pesticides/tompaine.htm
Environmental Toxins
Linda Chae's You have a right to know!
http://www.lindachae.com/environmental_toxins.htm
EPA's RECOGNITION AND MANAGEMENT OF PESTICIDE POISONINGS
"... Pesticide poisoning is a commonly under-diagnosed illness in America to-day.[sic]
Despite recommendations by the Institute of Medicine and others urging
the integration of environmental medicine into medical education, health care
providers generally receive a very limited amount of training in occupational
and environmental health, and in pesticide-related illnesses, in particular.1 ..."
[emphasis added]
Reference
1. Institute of Medicine. Role of the Primary Care Physician in Occupational and
Environ-mental Medicine, Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine, 1988.
http://www.epa.gov/oppfead1/safety/healthcare/handbook/handbook.htm
FertilizerToxins in Familiar Places - Arsenic and old waste
By Jackie Hunt Christensen; Sunday, September 15, 2002; ©2002 San Francisco Chronicle
This is a must read. -- barb
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/09/15/ED1334.DTL&type=printable
The Dark side of Domestic Chemicals
http://www.europa.com/edge/NR/flea.html
Discovery Channel's Toxic Legacies
"... the story of one tireless anthropologist's quest for answers to some disturbing
findings in a small Mexican town. ..."
http://health.discovery.com/premiers/toxic/inside.html
"DUKE PHARMACOLOGIST SAYS ANIMAL STUDIES ON DEET'S BRAIN EFFECTS
WARRANT FURTHER TESTING AND CAUTION IN HUMAN USE"
The last paragraph states the concerns of Dr. Abou-Donia quite clearly:
" 'The take home message is to be safe and cautious when using insecticides," said Abou-Donia. 'Never use insect repellents on infants, and be wary of using them on children in general. Never combine insecticides with each other or use them with other medications. Even so simple a drug as an antihistamine could interact with DEET to cause toxic side effects. Don't spray your yard for bugs and then take medications. Until we have more data on potential interactions in humans, safe is better than sorry.' "
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/med/deet.htm
Earthbound Farm- Organic
Study: Hispanic farmworkers experience higher rates of leukemia, brain, skin cancers
By KIM BACA; Associated Press Writer; Mon March 18, 2002 01:11 EST
http://www.ebfarm.com/news-world/farmworkers.html
EPA - Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings
PDF file available. -- barb
http://www.epa.gov/oppfead1/safety/healthcare/handbook/handbook.htm
Environmental Working Group's
Pesticide Industry Propaganda: The Real Story
Check out the real stories behind many of the industry commonly spawned myths! -- barb
http://www.ewg.org/reports/Myths/Myth_home.html
FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Fairfax prepares for court
By Rebecca Rosen Lum; Marin Independent Journal
It's more than just politics that make strange bedfellows . . . the state of
California looks like it hopped into bed with the pesticide industry and that
works against the public's right to know! -- barb
http://www.marinij.com/news/stories/index5001796.html
See EHN's section on Fertilizers
http://ehnca.org/www/ehnlinx/f.htm#Fertilizers
GetIPM.com
http://www.getipm.com
Globe and Mail
GMO FREE MENDOCINO
VICTORY! MENDOCINO COUNTY FIRST COUNTY IN NATION TO BAN THE
GROWING OF GENETICALLY ALTERED CROPS AND ANIMALS
Despite spending $55 on each NO vote, industry-fueled opposition is crushed.
Measure H supported by 56.5 percent of voters. - March 3, 2004
http://www.gmofreemendo.com/press_releases/2004-03-03.html
Health Care Without Harm
http://www.noharm.org/pesticidesCleaners/issue
Help planet by creating a `safe zone'
BY JOAN JACKSON; Published Friday, April 20, 2001; San Jose Mercury News
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/arts/garden/docs/joanie20.htm
Healthy Lawns Without Pesiticides
http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/parks/healthylawn/index.htm
Herbicide ruining compost; chemical detected in vegetable gardens
Los Angeles Times and Seattle Times staff
Friday, December 28, 2001 - 12:00 a.m. Pacific
" The Washington state Department of Agriculture is considering banning some uses
of an herbicide that is toxic to several vegetables and has been discovered in compost.
"Traces of Clopyralid, manufactured by Dow AgroSciences and deadly to potatoes,
peppers, tomatoes and beans, have been found in compost made from recycled grass,
straw and manure in Washington, California, Pennsylvania and New Zealand. ..."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134383978_compost28m.html
How to Keep Your Kids Safe from Pesticides
Ladies' Home Journal - [page 116 September 1999 ]
http://www.safe2use.com/media/moses.htm
THE IMPACT OF CHEMICAL LAWN CARE ON HUMAN HEALTH
By Roy Fox
"Lawn care in urban Canada has become increasingly dependent upon chemicals. ..."
http://www.eisc.ca/royfox1.html
Journal of Pesticide Reform
HOT WATER A "COOL" NEW WEED CONTROL METHOD
http://www.eap.mcgill.ca/MagRack/JPR/JPR_27.htm
Marin Independent Journal
Pesticide use on trails stops
By Richard Halstead
"... This month, Brown short-circuited plans to spray the weed-killer Roundup on the
Creekside Park trail, between Bon Air Road and College Avenue in Kentfield, after
the Pesticide Education Group mounted a small protest demonstration, said Susan
Christman, who founded the group. ..."
http://www.marinij.com/news/stories/news9002166.shtml
now available through http://web.archive.org/web/20021012202851/http://www.marinij.com/news/stories/news9002166.shtml
Monsanto Sues 70-Year-Old Farmer
March 30, Toronto (WP); Orion Society
"A judge yesterday ordered a Canadian farmer to pay thousands of dollars to the
biotechnology giant Monsanto Co. because the company¼s genetically engineered
canola plants were found growing in his field, apparently after pollen from modified
plants had blown onto his property from nearby farms. ..."
http://www.orionsociety.org/pages/oo/sidebars/absurd/absurd_monsanto.html
Natural Resources Defense Council
http://www.nrdc.org
- Poisons on Pets - Health Hazards from Flea and Tick Products
; November 2000 NRDC report
http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/pets/execsum.asp
- Agricultural Solutions -- Improving Water Quality in California
Through Water Conservation and Pesticide Reduction
"... Pesticides
"Pesticides are chemicals used to control insects, weeds and plant diseases. They are
inherently toxic compounds; risks to human health and the environment primarily
depend on the relative toxicity of individual compounds. Experimental and
epidemiological studies demonstrate that humans exposed to pesticides are subject
to a variety of health risks including cancer, neurotoxicity, reproductive harm, birth
defects and damage to the immune and endocrine systems. Pesticides also have caused
cases of acute poisoning in farm workers. Environmental risks such as toxicity to
beneficial insects, aquatic organisms, and birds also are well documented. ..."
http://www.nrdc.org/water/conservation/ragsosum.asp
Nova Scotia Allergy and Environmental Health Association (NSAEHA)
http://www.environmentalhealth.ca/
How Much Do You Pay For Your Neighbour¼s Lawn Care?
BY FLORENCE SENAY; Update Spring 1999
http://www.environmentalhealth.ca/spring99pay.html
Organic Gardening
Ý Roundup Kills More Than Weeds
http://web.archive.org/web/20001217023400/http://www.organicgardening.com/watchdog/roundup.html
Orlando News Weekly
Our Toxic Dogs
By Barbara Bouyet
Good information on common pesticides found on our food -- meat and produce. -- barb
http://www.akitarescue.com/our_toxic-dogs.htm
PCT Online ª News ª
California Pesticide Use Drops
By Jodi Dorsch; 10/23/2002
"The California Department of Pesticide Regulation recently announced that
reported pesticide use dropped by more than 30 million pounds in 2001, to
the lowest level since DPR began collecting the data more than a decade ago."
http://www.pctonline.com/news/news.asp?ID=1458
Pesticide Use in Marin
By Kim Helmuth, Science Interchange's Teen Environmental Media Network reporter
http://www.eecom.net/earthscope_16.htm
PESTICIDE WARS
© By 1998 Charles W. Moore
http://barque.freeyellow.com/lawn.html
TheSanDiegoChannel.com
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/
- Unit10 Investigation: Valley Center Cancer Some Suspect 'Cancer Cluster'
Posted: 6:20 p.m. PST November 16, 2001; Updated: 8:37 p.m. PST November 16, 2001
"SAN DIEGO -- An unusually high number of illnesses in Valley Center has county
officials investigating the possibility of a cancer cluster, 10News' Kim Edwards reported
in a Unit10 Investigation. ..."
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/sand/news/stories/news-108356120011116-201101.html
- Experts To Investigate Cancer Cluster
Several Cancer Cases Found In Valley Center
Posted: 6:45 p.m. PST January 24, 2002; Updated: 7:07 p.m. PST January 24, 2002
"VALLEY CENTER, Calif. -- Some Valley Center parents may finally get answers
to life and death questions about an unusually high number of cancer cases in the
area, 10News reported. ..."
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/sand/news/stories/news-120600420020124-200152.html
San Francisco Chronicle
Toxins in Familiar Places
Arsenic and old waste
Jackie Hunt Christensen; Sunday, September 15, 2002; ©2002 SF Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/09/15/ED1334.DTL
printer version: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/09/15/ED1334.DTL&type=printable
Seattle Public Utilities
Think Twice About Pesticides Alternatives to Pesticides or"Weed-and-Feed."
"These products can damage soil and lawn health and pollute our waterways. Some
studies also suggest that regular use of pesticides may harm our health. . . ."
http://www.seattle.gov/util/Services/Yard/Natural_Lawn_&_Garden_Care/Natural_Lawn_Care/THINKTWIC_200311261653108.asp
Seattle Times
- Purging The Pests: Do what the zoo folks do ã the simple stuff
Pacific Northwest Magazine / Plant Life; Friday, August 01, 2003
By Valerie Easton
"INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT sounds intimidatingly technical, perhaps most
appropriate for professional horticulturists. Not so, I learned on a recent trip to the
Woodland Park Zoo. Called IPM for short, this kind of pest control is nothing more
than pursuing the least toxic solution first ã as useful a concept for home gardeners
as for those maintaining public grounds. ... "
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/plantlife/2001232023_plife03.html
- Seattle Times Special Reports
Includes "Fear in the fields; How hazardous waste becomes fertilizer" series. -- barb
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/special/
SiliconValley-San Jose Business Journal
October 16, 2002
California pesticide use drops to new low
" Pesticide use dropped by more than 30 million pounds in 2001, to the lowest
level since data collection began more than a decade ago, according to the
California Department of Pesticide Regulation.
"Preliminary DPR statistics show that reported pesticide applications totaled
151 million pounds, compared with about 188 million pounds in 2000. The data
also show declining use of chemicals classified as possible carcinogens, reproductive
toxins and toxic air contaminants, the DPR says. Usage dropped both in pounds
applied and acres treated.
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2002/10/14/daily37.html
Summit Daily, Breckenridge
Other voices
By Stacy Malkan; guest columnist
"... We have been repeatedly told that the pesticides in use are not harmful, but the fact is,
there is no proof they are safe. As amazing as it may seem, standard tests for cancer, birth
defects, reproductive toxicity and other long-term health problems are not required under
law for chemicals used in most products, including pesticides ..."
http://www.summitdaily.com/opinion/op2_040601.html
ThomasPaine.common sense
A Journal of Opinion
http://www.tompaine.com
- A VICTIM'S STORY: Poisoned!
His Doctor's Story. His Story.
Jacob Berkson is the former Deputy General Counsel at the U.S. General
Services Administration, and a former Maryland State Representative.
Editor's note: A Canary's Tale is Mr. Berkson's self-published book
documenting his encounter with Dursban, a common pesticide. It is a
personal story of chemical poisoning and its real-life impact. But it is
also a story about the Doubting Thomases in the medical
establishment, who continue to harbor skepticism about chemical
sensitivity in humans. One who changed his mind was Berkson's own
doctor, Norman Rosenthal. His story, which appears as the forward to
the book, is published below, followed by an excerpt from Chapter One.
" There is no generally agreed upon mechanism for how
such a process might unfold biologically, though speculations
about this question abound. One speculation is that patients
with this problem are neurotics, hypochondriacs and malingerers.
In my view, this is frequently an erroneous explanation for a
complicated biological phenomenon and an injustice to many
people who suffer from a legitimate, albeit ill-understood, affliction.
"I have come to understand that chronic exposure to low dosages
of toxic chemicals can be as detrimental as one-shot exposures to
high doses of toxins." -- Dr. Norman Rosenthal, M.D.
http://www.tompaine.com/features/2000/02/07/index.html
Via The Wayback Machine:http://web.archive.org/web/20000930123021/http://www.tompaine.com/features/2000/02/07/index.html
- CHICKEN LITTLE: This Time It's Industry that's Crying the Sky Is Falling
A Campaign of Fear is Savaging the Food Quality Protection Act
Jeannine M. Kenney, Edward Groth III and Charles M. Benbrook are
analysts for Consumers Union, a non-profit organization that produces
Consumers Report, among other publications.
http://web.archive.org/web/20011201014113/http://www.tompaine.com/features/2000/02/07/1.html
- DURSBAN CASE STUDY: The Toxic Pesticide the EPA Has Declined (So Far) to Ban
Inaction Could Harm Your Health
David Case is a reporter for TomPaine.com. - 1999
He writes about the environment for the magazine.
http://www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/pesticides/tompaine.htm
- INDUSTRY PROPAGANDA: The So-Called Alar Scare
Don't Believe the Hype -- It Was Real
Kenneth Cook is president of the Environmental Working Group.
"The government always insists the food supply is 'safe.' Right up until
it bans a high-risk pesticide like Alar that has been on the market, and
in the food of millions of children, for decades. Then the government says
the safe food supply is 'safer.' "
http://web.archive.org/web/20011210123343/http://www.tompaine.com/features/2000/02/04/index.html
- TOXIC DECEPTION: The Chemical Industry's
Propaganda Campaign to Discredit a Frontline ExposÈ
Keeping the Public in the Dark
Charles Lewis is the executive director of the Center for Public Integrity.
"Editor's Note: In 1999, Dan Fagin, Marianne Lavelle and the Center
for Public Integrity wrote Toxic Deception, an exposÈ of the chemical
industry's orchestrated campaign to hide the truth about its products
from the public. Following is an excerpt from the Introduction, which
was written by Mr. Lewis."
http://web.archive.org/web/20011201014111/http://www.tompaine.com/features/2000/02/04/1.html
--end pesticide articles on TomPaine.com , but don't let me stop you from searching for your own favorites! --
Toxic gardens?
Concerns raised on health risks of green grass
By Francesca Lyman MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR
Save this article . . . MSNBC drops great articles after a short while. -- barb
http://www.msnbc.com/news/809243.asp
Toxins in Familiar Places
Arsenic and old waste
Jackie Hunt Christensen; Sunday, Sept. 15, 2002; ©2002 San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/09/15/ED1334.DTL
Print version: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/09/15/ED1334.DTL&type=printable
Troublesome inconsistencies in the federal regulation of pyrethrin-based shampoos
Michael H Surgan; Environmental Protection Bureau New York State
Attorney General's Office 120 Broadway New York, NY 10271
http://www.ewjm.com/cgi/content/full/174/3/169
The Village Voice
- EPA Opens the Door to Testing Bug Killers on People
Spoon-Feeding Poison
by Tennille Tracy; July 9 - 15, 2003
"The Bush administration is now moving to endorse the testing of noxious
and lethal chemicals on human beings. Since this spring, despite rife
opposition from the medical community, the Environmental Protection
Agency has quietly begun lifting a 1998 ban on accepting such research. ..."
http://www.villagevoice.com/print/issues/0328/tracy.php
My letter to VV ...
When I was in 6th and 7th grades, St. Louis, southside, I had a few bouts of excessive
drooling. I'd not be able to swallow fast enough. Drool would then pour forth from my
mouth, coat my desk and clothes. The first time it happened I had no idea what was
about to follow . . . so I puked right there at my desk. After that, I'd try to get the
teacher's attention to run to the bathroom. If I couldn't, I'd just run out and deal with
being in trouble later.
Based upon my current understandings, I'd bet the city was spraying outside of school
at that time and that was my reaction. At that time, no one equated my experiences with
pesticide poisonings. I didn't always have excessive drooling and vomiting. It wasn¼t
like it always happened during tests, although that was the case the first time. It also
occurred in the fun part of class ... which I hated to miss by getting sick.
It's that fact that my symptoms were sporadic and before the end of the school year that
leads me to think pesticides. There's little need for pesticides in St. Louis winters! And,
why not again in 8th grade? My family moved to a farm in the Ozarks . . . away from
city spraying and my folks weren¼t crazy about the „need¾ for using pesticides; there
are safer alternatives.
How many other students were inadvertent guinea pigs and yet fall into the category of
NEVER MEASURE, NEVER MANAGE?
For more information and links to resources, visit the Environmental Health Network at
http://www.ehnca.org.
Sincerely,
Barb Wilkie; July 21, 2003
Washington Post
Colombians Protest Fumigation
By Karen DeYoung; Washington Post Staff Writer;
Wednesday, August 1, 2001; Page A13
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14419-2001Jul31.html
-- end pesticide articles --
Pesticide Chemicals
Note: Work is underway on this section ... other chemicals can be found below in the category
Pesticide Information. I'm pulling them out of there and putting them in this subcategory ...
thinking that that will make it easier for you to find a particular chemical. -- barb
2,4-D
Aldrin and Dieldrin
CAS#: Aldrin 309-00-2; Dieldrin 60-57-1; September 2002
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts1.html
ALPHABETIC ACTIVE CHEMICAL CODE REPORT - EPA
Office of Pesticide Programs
http://www.epa.gov/opppmsd1/DataSubmittersList/dslchem.htm
Atrazine - Hormone disrupter and more!
Basic Guide to Pesticides: Their Characteristics and Hazards
Rachel Carson Council, Inc. - "Selected sample excerpts and pesticide clusters"
http://members.aol.com/rccouncil/ourpage/samples.htm
Carbaryl
CHLOROPICRIN
Chlorpyrifos
DEET
See Insect Repellents, above and West Nile Virus, EHN's page W
- Bug Spray Worse Than the Bite?
Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 102, Number 11, November 1994
Back in the 30% and more days . . . -- barb
http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1994/102-11/forum.html
- DUKE PHARMACOLOGIST SAYS ANIMAL STUDIES ON DEET'S BRAIN
EFFECTS WARRANT FURTHER TESTING AND CAUTION IN HUMAN USE
" DURHAM, N.C. -- A Duke University Medical Center pharmacologist is recommending caution
when using the insecticide DEET, after his animal studies last year found the chemical causes diffuse
brain cell death and behavioral changes in rats after frequent and prolonged use. ..."
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/med/deet.htm
Dibrom
ETI Environmental, Inc.
http://www.toxint.com/page25.html
DIELDRIN
International Chemical Safety Cards
http://www.itcilo.it/english/actrav/telearn/osh/ic/60571.htm
Dioxin
- Dioxin Advisories and Guidance
Food Safety and Inspection Service United States Department of Agriculture
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OA/topics/dioxmenu.htm
- Dioxin Named a Known Carcinogen
By Cat Lazaroff; Environmental News Service
"WASHINGTON, DC, January 24, 2001 (ENS) - Dioxin - already blamed for a
host of ills ranging from immune system suppression and infertility to learning
disabilities - has now been officially linked to cancer. The National Toxicology
Program announced last week that dioxin has been added to a federal list of
substances "known to be human carcinogens.
" Plastic trash bags and many other common plastic products can contain toxic organochlorines ..."
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/jan2001/2001L-01-24-06.html
- Dioxin Report By EPA On Hold
Industries Oppose Finding of Cancer Link, Urge Delay
"The chemical, beef and poultry industries are waging an intense campaign to delay
further an Environmental Protection Agency study showing that consumption of animal
fat and dairy products containing traces of dioxin can cause cancer in humans.
[ That doesn't mean one doesn't exist, just that the chemical industry opposes finding it ]
http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/01-04-12d.htm
- Dioxin Reassessment by the US EPA
Announced close date: Jun 12, 2000 - most files are in PDF format. -- barb
http://www.epa.gov/ncea/pdfs/dioxin/dioxreass.htm
- Dioxin Research at the
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/factsheets/dioxin.htm
- International Chemical Safety Cards in Alphabetical Order
http://www.itcilo.it/english/actrav/telearn/osh/kemi/alpha2.htm
- International Chemical Safety Cards by CAS Number
http://www.itcilo.it/english/actrav/telearn/osh/kemi/icsc.htm
- International Chemical Safety Cards by Risk Phrases Used in the
Countries of European Union
http://www.itcilo.it/english/actrav/telearn/osh/ip/risky.htm
- International Food Information Council
Questions and Answers about Dioxin and Food Safety; August 1990
http://ificinfo.health.org/qanda/qadiox.htm
- Ruth's Page - Endometriosis and Dioxin, includes Tampon Survey
http://www.frontiernet.net/~ruthb/
- Tampons and Asbestos, Dioxin, &Toxic Shock Syndrome
"...Asbestos is not an ingredient in any U.S. brand of tampon, nor is it associated
with the fibers used in making tampons. ..."
"... there may be trace amounts of dioxin present from environmental
sources in cotton, rayon, or rayon/cotton tampons...."
Consumer Factsheet on: GLYPHOSATE by the US EPA
"Trade Names and Synonyms:
Glialka
Roundup
Sting
Rodeo
Spasor
Muster
Tumbleweed
Sonic
Glifonox
Glycel
Rondo "
"What are the Health Effects?
"Short-term: EPA has found glyphosate to potentially cause the following health effects when people are exposed to it at levels above the MCL for relatively short periods of time: congestion of the lungs; increased breathing rate.
" Long-term: Glyphosate has the potential to cause the following effects from a lifetime exposure at levels above the MCL: kidney damage, reproductive effects. ..."
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/contaminants/dw_contamfs/glyphosa.html
Glyphosate Fact Sheet - A Greenpeace Report
http://archive.greenpeace.org/~usa/reports/biodiversity/glyp.html
It's Time to Halt the Use of Cancer-Causing and Other Harmful Pesticides in
Portland's Public Schools
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:lX2Q20wrlmQJ:www.pesticide.org/PDXSchoolsActionAlert.pdf+Harmful+effects+of+RoundUp+Pro&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
or PDF
http://www.pesticide.org/PDXSchoolsActionAlert.pdf
Pesiticde chemicals used against the GWSS, beneficial bugs, humans and pets . . .
Health and Ecological Effects of Pesticides Used to
Combat the Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter in California, 2000
The No Spray Action Network
Graton, CA 95444
http://www.freestone.com/nospray/pesthealtheffects.html
Note: At the bottom of this window of info, you'll find, Non-chemical and
least-toxic approaches are safer and more effective. Short-term solutions. My two bits' worth:
Don't kill off beneficial bugs; don't slowly and painfully kill off people and their pets -- barb
- Respond to the DIER for California's GWSS pesticide program
See EHN's Act Now! / GWSS for details from No Spray Action Network
http://ehnca.org/www/ehnhompg/action.htm#GWSS
Imidacloprid - Beekeepers call Imidacloprid "the end of beekeeping."
" ... From its introduction, 'Imidacloprid' the active substance was announced as the first
systemic soil insecticide applied as a seed treatment ("GAUCHO"). Neuro toxic, it
works by contact as well as ingestion, on the nervous system by maintaining neural
activity, inducing a tetanic condition resulting in the death of the insect. It presents a wide
spectrum of effectiveness: soil pests as well as piercing/sucking insects are affected. ..."
http://www.apiculture.com/articles/gaucho/gaucho_france.htm
Malathion
As you read through information on Malathion, hold a thought for Julia Kendall. She was inadvertently sprayed while in an open convertible while driving in southern California
during the late 1980s. They were spray for the medfly. Julia's body's reaction was leukemia
and MCS. Julia died July 12, 1997 but her work lives on. -- barb
No Foam B
I found precious little info on No Foam B . . .
MSDS, HTML
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:FEQPX9ExPY0J:www.montereylawngarden.com/pdf/nofoamb-1099-m.pdf+%22No+Foam+B%22++&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
PDF http://www.montereylawngarden.com/pdf/nofoamb-1099-m.pdf
I also found, according to Clark Pest that it is supposed to "increase the efficiency of various agricultural chemicals" . . .
HTML: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:wS3pj5It-SkJ:www.clarkpest.com/MSD_Label/NoFoamB.pdf+%22No+Foam+B%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
PDF file http://www.clarkpest.com/MSD_Label/NoFoamB.pdf
PESTICIDE INGREDIENTS
(Information from various sources, with list of ingredients in alphabetical order)
Copyright © 2000; Susan Wells Vaughan and ATB Communications
http://home.interpath.com/sioux/tox/INGREDIENTS_A_C.htm
Pyrethrins or Pyrethroids
July 2003 -- My chiropractor had discovered a cycle associated with my tinnitus (ringing in
the ears), as he kept a record of my work-related health complaints, including asthma, headaches,
and tinnitus. OK, so now I had information that my tinnitus was cyclical., what did that
mean? I figured it had to be chemical, but my various reactions to fragrances couldn't explain
it as that was daily and the tinnitus was a monthly pattern, once in a while it was off by a week.
In the early stages of my tinnitus, it was dramatically eased by adjustments, but after years
it was chronic. Only now after I've been out of the workplace 4.5 years, and with detoxing
with the help of chiropractic and the addition of acupuncture and Chinese herbs, do I find
welcomed breaks in that incessant ringing in my ears.
But to return to the earlier days of my MCS . . . a few months along, I also experienced a bloom
of non-healing wounds, mainly on my feet, ankles and lower legs . . . I was already into severe
acne as one of my various reactions to fragrances worn and used by others, but this was different.
Fortunately, there would be only one or two really deep sores developing at a time. The
wounds would manifest as spontaneous craters ranging in size from nickels to quarters . . . a
few the size of pennies and a couple on my right ankle were the size of a half dollar. (Remember
those coins?)
The wounds accompanied the tinnitus on a cycle, though the sores would remain for six or
more months, once they had developed. They healed slowly from the depths of the center, up
and toward the outside. They were not only ugly and painful but could impede my walking,
particularly when developing on my ankles and calves. Occasionally one would appear on my
thighs or kiester -- if on the sitting part of my anatomy, you can only imagine the pain and
discomfort. Various ointments, including prescribed, had no noticeable affect upon the healing
of these sores, and, of course, they weren't recognized by source. I gave up the idea of using
ointments and just made sure the area remained free of infection. I took a load of Vitamin C.
I didn't know about tea tree oil in those earlier days of my MCS. If infection looked like it was
starting to form, I used sugar and covered it with a bandaid. I got by.
I called my friend, Julia Kendall -- the friend of so many with MCS in the very early 1990s --
and asked her, What does a monthly cycle of tinnitus mean? She had a one-word explanation
that WAS an explanation: "PESTICIDES!," she exclaimed. And then she suggested I ask
management for the records of their spraying: When, what, how much, where . . .
That info was not easily forthcoming, but they did give it to me. The pesticide spraying coincided
with my recorded adverse health events, validating Julia's quick assessment. My persistence
gained the information I had a right to know, but it also hastened me along the path of being
considered a "problem employee" -- a royal pain in management's collective backside. It was
sometime during this general timeframe that I was told by my former workplace that all they
were using were pyrethroids and they were safe. BULL! Their stories of denied
sprayings, etc., would make another book, suffice it to say, my body always told me when the
pesticides were sprayed . . . even when off schedule by a week.
And now, roughly a decade later, I have found the testimony of Dr. Adrienne Buffaloe, below,
which gives the symptoms of poisoning by Pyrethrins or Pyrethroids.
This could be read as a major whine by those so bent. So be it. However, I've written this account,
and others scattered throughout EHN's site, to help give clues to those who are struggling to
learn just what is the matter with their bodies. The patient has to learn, for the bulk of the
mainstream doctors are not adequately educated on environmental illnesses. -- barb
- Cypermethrin
Cypermethrin is a synthetic pyrethroid, used in "foggers." Foggers are not "safe" insecticdes.
There are no "safe" pesticides! Buyer beware! -- barb
- Cypermethrin - MSDS
E X T O X N E T - Extension Toxicology Network
"It may cause irritation to the skin and eyes. Symptoms of dermal exposure
include numbness, tingling, itching, burning sensation, loss of bladder control,
incoordination, seizures and possible death). Pyrethroids may adversely effect
the central nervous system... "
http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/carbaryl-dicrotophos/cypermet-ext.html
- Dr. Adrienne Buffaloe
Transcript of testimony of Dr. Adrienne Buffaloe on the effects of pesticides
on people, particularly malathion and pyrethroids based on her own evaluations of her
patients,before hearings held by a Congressional panel chaired by Congressional
representative Gerald Ackerman, of Queens NY.
"...Pyrethrins or Pyrethroids, ... causes severe allergy attacks in sensitive people,
dermatitis, asthma, rhinitis, anaphylactic reactions, numbness of the lips and tongue,
sneezing, vomiting, diarrhea, ringing in the ears and restlessness; it can also cause
convulsions, which is seizures, incoordination, and death from respiratory paralysis.
"To say that these pesticides are perfectly safe is an outrage. With Resmethrin or
Pyrethroid, it's particularly problematic, because the first death from a Pyrethroid
exposure was reported right here in New York City in 1994, just five years before
the spraying, by the current director of the New York City Poison Center. And that
article has been given to the legislators, and it is in your packet. This death was as a
result of a very brief exposure to Pyrethroid. ..." [emphasis added]
http://www.nospray.org/buffaloe.shtml
Sprayed Away
Did calling in an exterminator put health and home at risk?
http://www.getipm.com/articles/debore.htm
Round Up
http://www.reninet.com/catz/roundref.htm
Timbor
"For protection and preventative treatment of wood* against decay fungi and wood-
destroying insects, and for remedial control of such pests in infested wood. "
http://doyourownpestcontrol.com/timbor.htm
Toxic Pesticides: What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us
http://www.reninet.com/catz/toxicpesticides.htm
now at http://web.archive.org/web/20010303021708/http://www.reninet.com/catz/toxicpesticides.htm
Triclopyr
Also see EHN's General Links, page G / Garlon
http://ehnca.org/www/ehnlinx/g.htm#Garlon
TurflonÝ
Statement of Jay Feldman, Executive Director
Beyond Pesticides/National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides
at Press Conference on the School Environment Protection Act
U.S. Senate, October 13, 1999
"... Triclopyr (Garlon, Turflon). Garlon can cause permanent impairment of vision. Effects include severe conjunctival irritation, moderate internal redness, and moderate to severe corneal injury. Washing is not effective in prevention these effects. Subchronic and chronic feeding laboratory studies found kidney and liver effects in dogs. In soils with low biological activity trichlopyr remained for more than two years. Faftors such as organic matter, pH, temperature and water content influenced the decomposition rate. Triclopyr is mobile and leaches readily into surface run off waters. In October, 1998, EPA issued a label change under its reregistration process which establishes, „Homeowner reentry is restricted until sprays have dried and dusts have settled.¾ The agency is requiring additional product chemistry and acute toxicity studies. ..."
http://www.checnet.org/legislation_sepa_bgstatement.asp
Vikane
Vikane, or Sulfuryl Fluoride, seemingly has become the killer of choice upon the phasing out of
methyl bromide in the U.S. I wonder how long it will be before there's another "phasing out"
and what chemical will move in to then take the place of Vikane? -- barb
Pesticide Free!
Pesticide Information
-- use these sites to become informed of the dangers in using pesticides. You may wish to
visit sites listed under Toxics at http://ehnca.org/www/ehnlinx/t.htm#TOXICS
Also visit Newspapers, Online News and References and Publications
for links to articles of possible interest.
Note: So many want to know about prenotification forms, so I thought I'd bring
this info to the top of the resources on pesticides, and why and how to avoid them. Please visit
Pre-notification form -- Canada
Environmental Illness Society of Canada
http://www.eisc.ca/prenotification.htm
- Aerial Applications: Sierra
Pests, Bugs and Other creepsy stuff
"Bradley Powell, Pacific Southwest Regional Forester for the US Forest Service,
announced tight new restrictions on any proposed aerial application of the herbicide
hexazinone to the 11 national forests of the Sierra Nevada on 12/6/99 ... following a
spring 'accident' on the Stanislaus National Forest, wherein a FS-contracted helicopter
directly dosed about two and a half miles of biologically significant Rose Creek with the
chemical. "
http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/12-10-99.htm
- Agricultrual Chemical Mix Called Health Danger
http://unisci.com/stories/19991/0317991.htm
- Agriculture Network Information Center
http://www.agnic.org/cbp/pestind.html
- Alameda County
- All you can eat -- pesticide count
(Environmental Working Group)
http://www.foodnews.org
- Alternatives to Pesticdes: A resource list
http://members.aol.com/homeview2/info/index.htm
- Animals in California suffer horribly Herbicide / Pesticide suspected
http://www.getipm.com/articles/letters/horses.htm
- The Audubon Guide to Home Pesticides
By: Joel Bourne Icons by: Lisa Manning
"... Pesticides used by homeowners can wreak havoc on wildlife, even when they¼re
correctly applied. About a dozen pesticides approved for backyard use have caused
documented die-offs of birds. If mishandled, these chemicals can also be toxic to humans,
especially children, who might accidentally swallow them. Below is a list of some
of the active ingredients found in the most popular off-the-shelf pesticides. Keep in mind
that formulations varyãeven within one product and one brandãso be sure to read
the labels carefully each time you shop. (Two popular herbicides, 2,4-D and
glyphosate, are included, though their toxicity to birds and wildlife is considered low.)..."
Be careful! This site recommends using synthetic pyrethrum -- that's one of the 'cides that
did me in in my former workplace and has caused seizures in a friend! -- barb
http://www.audubon.org/bird/pesticides/
- Automatic Insecticide Dispenser Units
- Bat Conservation International
http://www.batcon.org/
- Be sprayed -- or be evicted?
Can you deny exterminators home access for health reasons?
Tenants' rights regarding pesticide spraying differ from state to state.
By Francesca Lyman, SPECIAL TO MSNBC; Sept. 20, 2000
Remember, anything Francesca Lyman writes is worth your read . . . but most
unfortunately, her articles have a short shelflife at MSNBC so SAVE 'EM! -- barb
http://www.msnbc.com/news/464003.asp
Found mirrored: http://www.sonic.net/cnds/sprayrights.html
- Beyond Pesticides: National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/
- Beyond Pesticides, Marin
http://www.pesticidefreezone.org/
- Boston University School of Public Health
"Photo Essay on the Pesticide Poisoning of America."
All Photographs & Text Copyright © David H. Wells 1988.
I found it compelling.-- barb
http://www.bumc.bu.edu/SPH/Gallery/Introw.html
- Bubblegum-scented Pesticides
- The Bug Man - Richard Fagerlund
http://www.askthebugman.com
- Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/pmra-arla/english/main/notices-e.html
- Golf Courses (USA and Canadian links)
http://www.healthylawns.net/english/html/golf-e.shtml
- Healthy Lawns Strategy
http://www.healthylawns.net/english/index-e.html
- Sustainable Pest Management
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/pmra-arla/english/spm/spm-e.html
- Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (CCAEJ)
The Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice serves as a resource
center for community groups working on environmental justice issues. We provide
information / publications; direct assistance to groups; outreach, referral and network
development, and training / leadership development.
http://www.ccaej.org/
- Taken from the Summer 1998 issue of Synergy
Chrissy's Story; The Poisons Around Us; Pesticide Myths of Safety
"... While the city does nothing, I have been labeled crazy, emotional, and responsible
for all the bad press my daughter's death has brought Fontana. My question is this: why
are we appalled at chemical warfare in other countries, when we permit it in our
own backyard?
To answer the rhetorical question: Because it is far easier to believe government protects the
public and industry tells us the truth . . . Sadly, it too often is only AFTER THE FACT of illness
or death of a loved one that people begin researching the problem. And then, they are up
against industry propaganda that labels them malingerers, psychosomatic, pains in the collective
backside of humanity, . . . and who wants to be so labeled? It seems easier to believe
government protects ...
Janine Matelko, I am so very sorry to learn you lost your daughter to pesticide poisonings.
Because you chose to share your story, perhaps another child may live.
http://www.ccaej.org/projects/pesticides.htm
CITIZENS' GUIDE TO PESTICIDE NOTIFICATION LAWS IN NEW YORK STATE
November 2000
http://www.oag.state.ny.us/environment/pesticide_guide.html
- CorpWatch
Canada: Sweet-Scented Pesticide 'Sugarcoats a Toxic Pill'
http://www.corpwatch.org/trac/headlines/2000/294.html
- Sweet-Scented Pesticide Sugarcoats A Toxic Pill:
Critics Decry Industry's Perverse Threat To Children
"Pesticides give off a pretty recognizable smell, and people naturally act adversely to it.
This is an attempt to cover up what amounts to a warning signal."
http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/00-09-05c.htm
CDFA - California Department of Food and Agriculture
http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/
GWSS -- More info up on EHN's page G
http://ehnca.org/www/ehnlinx/g.htm#GWSS
- GLASSY-WINGED SHARPSHOOTER (GWSS)
http://plant.cdfa.ca.gov/gwss/
The REAL story:
- Biology and Control of Insect Vectors (GWSS)
UC scientists have discovered several natural enemies of GWSS
http://danr.ucop.edu/news/speeches/vectors.html
- Canaries NO ACCEPTABLE RISK Campaign
http://www.noacceptablerisk.com/
- Current Activities
"This Canaries No Acceptable Risk Coalition was formed as a response to the CA Glassy
Winged Sharp-shooter / Pierce¼s Disease Emergency Plan which mandates pesticide
applications on the properties of citizens of CA against their will for the profit of the
wine industry. The acceptable risk population is not protected. Instead of fighting one
issue at a time with petitions, we have chosen to fight the big issue -no acceptable
risk- with a permanent position statement. Continually adding members, to fight for the
environmental health of us all." [emphasis added -- barb]
http://www.noacceptablerisk.com/Current_Activities/current_activities.html
- Canaries Mission Statement & Membership
http://www.noacceptablerisk.com/Membership/membership.html
- East Bay Pesticide Alert
http://www.dontspraycalifornia.org
- The Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter Eradication
Slush Fund that allocates millions for Pesticide spray.
http://www.safe2use.com/alerts/california/carbaryl.htm
Pesticides likely to be used ...
- Basis for Establishing the Common Mechanism of Action of
Organophosphate and Carbamate Insecticides
Comments Submitted March 24, 1998 to the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel
On Behalf of Consumers Union
By Dr. Edward Groth; Ms. Jeannine Kenney; Dr. Charles Benbrook
http://www.safe2use.com/poisons-pesticides/pesticides/misc/sevin-carbaryl-CU.htm
- Carbaryl (SEVIN)
http://www.safe2use.com/poisons-pesticides/pesticides/misc/sevin-carbaryl.htm
Chlorpyrifos
- Imidacloprid - Beekeepers call Imidacloprid "the end of beekeeping."
" ... From its introduction, 'Imidacloprid' the active substance was announced as the first
systemic soil insecticide applied as a seed treatment ("GAUCHO"). Neuro toxic, it
works by contact as well as ingestion, on the nervous system by maintaining neural
activity, inducing a tetanic condition resulting in the death of the insect. It presents a wide
spectrum of effectiveness: soil pests as well as piercing/sucking insects are affected. ..."
http://www.apiculture.com/articles/gaucho/gaucho_france.htm
- Why Science Can't Prove a Pesticide is Safe
Honest to God, at a meeting regarding the GWSS workplan for Alameda County, California,
Tuesday April 10, before the Board of Supervisors, a fellow actually used that old Monsanto line
(reportedly used for Roundup), "pesticides are safer than table salt." AND, the two of us
speaking for using non-toxic means of control were labled EMOTIONAL, while their pleas for the
use of pesticides were SOUND SCIENCE. Let me assure anyone reading this, THEY
were emotional about their need for pesticides. We were pleading for the health of the people and
the environment . . . if that's "emotional," so be it. -- barb
http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/01-04-11c.htm
-- end GWSS --
- California Department of Pesticide Regulation - DPR
http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/
- Pesticides and the California
HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTION 105200-105225
Did you know that your physician and/or surgeon must PROMPTLY report your
pesticide poisoning? No? I'll bet your doctor isn't aware of that either. -- barb
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?WAISdocID=9917826175+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve
- PHYSICIAN'S GUIDE TO PESTICIDE POISONING
Researched and Written by Douglass E. Stevenson
Extension Associate - Agricultural Chemicals
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas
http://www-aes.tamu.edu/doug/med/pgpp.htm
REMEMBER: Inerts are often more toxic than chemicals listed on the label. Also, it is
not just a few folks who are poisoned by pesticides . . . and not all pesticide poisonings show
immediate symptoms. These toxic prepartations are released to market with inadequate testing.
See Pesticide Action Network Updates Service (PANUPS)
New Study Points to Inadequate Testing of Pesticides - March 26, 1999
"A new study in the journal Toxicology and Industrial Health identifies significant
shortcomings in toxicological testing protocols currently used to register pesticides in the
United States. The five year study suggests that combinations of commonly used agricultural
chemicals in concentrations that mirror levels found in groundwater can significantly influence
immune and endocrine systems as well as neurological health. ..." -- barb
http://www.panna.org/panna/resources/panups/panup_19990326.dv.html
- Planet Ark -- if link doesn't work, use their search feature (http://www.planetark.org/index.cfm)
And this folks is the "bottom line" to continue poisoning our children, our parents, ourselves,
our pets, our planet. It's BIG 'BIDNESS.' What really sticks in my craw is that those of us
advocating non-toxic pest control measures are DISMISSIVELY LABLED EMOTIONAL. Let
me assure you, those who harp on continuing the use of pesticides ARE emotional. What, it's
not emotional to use old bromides like: "most pesticides are less toxic than table salt" (a
line reportedly used by Monsanto for its Roundup), or the line I really love: "WE rely on good
science."
And, of course, they add in for good measure, the government says they are safe.
I'm put in mind of the line, THE LAW IS AN ASS! In this case, read government. The
government is not interested in protecting public health; if the government were, there would
be TRUTH IN LABELING. As it is, YOUR astute doctor cannot get "proprietary information" --
the list of chemicals that have made you or your family members ill. The EPA and industry have
been feathering one another's bed for years. For more info, see article, "Why Science
Can't Prove a Pesticide is Safe." -- barb
http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/01-04-11c.htm
- Poisons in the yard: Not All Flea-Killing Products are Created Equal
http://www.aquariuspetsupplies.com/poison.htm
- Pyrethrins / Pyrethroids
My body told me these were not "safe" pesticides even though my workplace told me they
were safe, because their application service told them so. My body's most obvious reactions were
tinnitus and fast-developing, cratering,non-healing wounds. I could tell the agency when they
last sprayed, even when they thought the spraying had not taken place. Eventually, I'd hear,
"Well, Barb, you're right again." Yet, they NEVER listened to me and they never got IT:
Pesticides maime and kill . . . and not only pests. -- barb
Also see EHN's page P / Pyrethroids
http://ehnca.org/www/ehnlinx/p.htm#Pyrethroids
- Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly, #588
"A recent study of pesticides and childhood brain cancers has
revealed a strong relationship between brain cancers and
compounds used to kill fleas and ticks.[7] The specific
chemicals associated with children's brain cancers were
pyrethrins and pyrethroids (which are synthetic pyrethrins,
such as permethrin, tetramethrin, allethrin, resmethrin, and
fenvalerate), and chlorpyrifos (trade name: Dursban).
By the way folks, pyrethroids were used by my former workplace.
Trust me, they ARE very toxic! -- barb
http://www.monitor.net/rachel/r588.html
- State begins search for causes of cancer
Karen Cimino; Tribune Staff Writer; PORT ST. LUCIE
http://www.portsaintlucie.com/news/1998/0125/story6.htm
- Summary of Phytotoxicity/Incompatibility Warnings on
Shade Tree Insecticide Labels
Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University
http://www.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/modc1/52794003.html
- Toxic Pesticides
- from the RIC Good Wood Project
http://forests.org/ric/good_wood/tox_pest.htm
- Welcome to Robert's Web Site
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Bath/5236/index.html
- Environmental Health Center
Where found? Health Effects? Reduce Exposure to Pesticides in Your Home!
http://www.nsc.org/ehc/indoor/pesticid.htm
- Environmental Illness Society of Canada
http://www.eisc.ca/prenotification.htm
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Office of Pesticide Programs
http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/
- Environmental Working Group
http://www.ewg.org/
- EPA: Pesticides -- "Common Indoor Air Pollutants" states NIEHS
- EXTOXNET -- The EXtension TOXicology NETwork
GWSS Task Force Being Organized without including Citizen Advocate or Input
http://www.safe2use.com/alerts/california/gwss-taskforce.htm
- NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING - IN SACRAMENTO
on the Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter Eradication
Slush Fund that allocates millions for Pesticide spray.
They are planning to spray you!
We say nerve gas spray in our backyards and release of bio-engineered insects
and bacteria is unsafe and environmentally irresponsible.
Ad Hoc Committee for Clean Water: 707-874-3855 phone/fax
http://www.safe2use.com/alerts/california/carbaryl.htm
- GLASSY-WINGED SHARPSHOOTER (GWSS)
http://plant.cdfa.ca.gov/gwss/
- Green Decade Coalition
http://www.information-engineer.com/kids/grcoalhp.htm
- Halifax, Nova Scotia - RATE (Real Alternatives to Toxins in the Environment)
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/RATE/
Hospitals
- How to Avoid Pesticides - New York State Attorney General's Office
http://www.oag.state.ny.us/family/kids/midkid/pesticides.html
- Informed Choices
"The website was created for sharing our story and other victim's stories and for
educating the general public on the hazards of pesticide or chemical use. Please visit the
Links Page as it contains a wealth of resource information on the environmental
and health effects from "ALL" use of pesticides or other toxic chemicals and on
what is wrong with the system.
http://www.wtv-zone.com/infchoice/index.html
"Revolving Door" - US EPA and the Chemical Industry
Symptoms of Pesticide Poisoning
- Are children at greater risk from pesticide poisoning than adults? (You decide)
http://www.safe2use.com/data/kids.htm
- The Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice
"The Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice serves as a resource
center for community groups working on environmental justice issues. We provide
information / publications; direct assistance to groups; outreach, referral and network
development, and training / leadership development."
E-Mail: Penny Newman at admin@ccaej.org
Pesticide Organizing Project
The entire page is worth reading, but specifically . . .
"Myth #3: I use Roundup and we all know it's safe. Afterall, it's sold in the grocery store.
"There are two types of ingredients in Roundup and other pesticides - active and inert.
The active ingredients are those designed to kill the target pest. The "inert" ingredient
does not mean it's non-toxic or harmless. It is the secret ingredient added to the product
to either preserve the active ingredients, make them easier to apply or improve their
killing ability. For example, some inerts soften the skin of the pest, making it easier
for the active ingredient to get into the pest and kill it.
"Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, has been assumed to have low animal
toxicity because the enzyme system which it inhibits is specific to plants. But studies now
show that Glyphosate can cause acute symptoms including eye and skin irritation and
nausea, conjunctivitis, vomiting and diarrhea. California statistics show that in 1994,
glyphosate ranked eighth for most number of complaints filed with the state by
people poisoned by the product.
"Glyphosate can also drift off-site during applications. Studies show that from 14-78%
of it can as far as 1300 feet downwind. Once on the ground, it can persist in soils from
3 days to a year.
"Misleading advertising has led many applicators to consider glyphosate nearly non-toxic
. In 1996, the New York State Attorney General won an injunction against the
chemical's manufacturer, Monsanto, for falsely claiming that the pesticide is as safe
as table salt. [Emphasis added. This was the very statement used in a meeting with the
Alameda County, California pesticide experts held in Oakland in April 2001. I was present. -- barb]
"The inert ingredients [emphasis added] in Roundup may pose more danger
than it's active ingredient. Japanese emergency medicine professionals reported in Lancet,
the American Medical Journal, that the "inert" ingredient in the herbicide formulation,
Roundup, accounts for the acute toxicity they had found in patients poisoned (some
fatally) by Roundup.
"Symptoms included vomiting and gastrointestinal pain, swelling of the lungs and
pneumonia, reduction of blood pressure, clouding of consciousness, and red blood cell
destruction. The "inert" ingredient they identified in Roundup was polyoxyethyleneamine
(POEA) actually referring to a family of chemicals. It is added to Roundup to help
evenly spread the active ingredient, glyphosate, on target plants.
"EPA reports that it is common for 1,4-dioxane to be present with POEA. The International
Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) consider 1,4-dioxane and animal carcinogen and
EPA considers it to be a probable human carcinogen.
"We continue to not know what is in Roundup and other pesticides because the
manufacturers are not required to list them on the labels and have claimed that inerts
are 'confidential business information that should not be available to the public.' EPA
allows more than 2,000 chemicals to be used as inerts - many cause toxic effects including
cancer and at least 382 were themselves used as the pesticide active ingredient.
"In fact, hazardous waste have been allowed to be 'recycled' into pesticides as inerts. You
may be spraying chemicals like xylene, chloroform, methylene chloride, toluene and
other toxic chemicals. As one misguided EPA official said, 'it's a way of disposing of
hazardous materials.'"
http://www.ccaej.org/projects/pesticides.htm
- Learn to Recognize the Symptoms of Pesticide (Poison) Exposure
http://www.safe2use.com/data/tree.htm
- Pesticide Poisoning Symptoms and First Aid
Fred Fishel, Department of Agronomy
Paul Andre, Missouri Department of Agriculture
"
Pesticide poisoning is a commonly under-diagnosed illness. Health care providers
generally receive a limited amount of training in occupational and environmental health,
especially in pesticide-related illnesses."
http://muextension.missouri.edu/xplor/agguides/agengin/g01915.htm
- Signs and Symptoms of Pesticide Poisoning
University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension EC97-2505-A
http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/pesticides/ec2505.htm
- Symptoms of Pesticide Poisoning
2001 Cornell University
http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/facts-slides-self/core-tutorial/module09/
- Symptoms of Pesticide Poisoning
Sources: National Cancer Institute, National Academy of Science,
Office of Technology Assessment, EPA, OSHA
http://www.safe2use.com/data/symptoms.htm
What To Do In A Pesticide Emergency
Beyond Pesticides
701 E Street SE #200
Washington DC 20003
phone 202-543-5450
fax 202-543-4791
email: info@beyondpesticides.org
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/todo1.html
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