RodISHI
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No matter how many times a chemical company may claim pesticides/chemicals are safe I will know better. A couple of dear friends suffered terrible affects from a neighboring farm's chemical sprays. If the company that had done the spraying next to their home would have warned them they could have at least had the option to leave until the chemical spray had dispersed. That was not the case. It was a few years later one died after at least a hundred health tests and doctors visits and then about another year and the other one passed away. These were sweet, fun people and now their families and friends miss them. I've heard on here about how some think extending lives is important. How about protecting lives of the living?
February 12, 2010 Fumigant pesticide suspected in girls' deaths
A 15-month-old and her four-year-old sister have died and the rest of the family was sickened in Layton, Utah, after an extermination company treated their yard with Fumitoxin pellets to control voles. Fumitoxin contains aluminum phosphide, which upon contact with moisture releases phosphine, a lethal gas with no antidote. Investigators detected toxic levels of the gas in the family's home following the first death and are awaiting autopsy results that they expect will confirm phosphine poisoning as the cause of death.
The Fumitoxin label specifies an application rate of just two to four pellets per rodent burrow and that it should not be used within 15 feet of homes or occupied structures. Investigators have determined that the exterminator used a total of 1.5 lbs of product in the yard and applied it seven feet from the front door. Authorities have not ruled out........continued..
California's newest carcinogen: Senate Food & Ag chair says no!
Californias Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) expects to make a decision on the registration of methyl iodide as a new soil fumigant by the end of February, according to the Capital Press. The chemical is manufactured and marketed for use as a pesticide by the chemical giant Arysta. The state Senate's Food and Agriculture Committee held a hearing on Monday, where committee chair Dean Florez invited testimony on the risks of the carcinogenic chemical, saying, "The day is coming when we're going to be moving past these particular substances. It has to." Four scientists testifying agreed. Chemistry professor Neil Schore, University of California-Davis, said the chemical, which "'was previously used only for research, including such purposes as inducing cancer in laboratory cells is too difficult to control... I can't imagine [how it could be applied safely in farming],' Schore said. 'It just moves too fast.'" Dr. Susan Kegley, consulting chemist with Pesticide Action Network, says: It is difficult to over-state how hazardous this chemical is, and how inappropriate it is for agricultural uses.... Methyl iodide is a highly reactive chemical, and it cannot be contained once it is released into the environment. For those who spend time near fields where this pesticide is applied, this will likely translate into more miscarriages, more cancer, more thyroid disease, and more nervous system disorders. Workers involved in the application of methyl iodide will have the highest exposures and the most significant health..........continued...