Pesticides action from Organic Consumers Association

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From Organic Consumers Association

 

Protect children, infants and fetuses! Stop EPA Approval of Toxic Pesticides.

Government scientists are blowing the whistle on the Environmental Protection

Agency's political appointees attempt to allow the continued use of toxic

pesticides without completing adequate hazard evaluations. Scientsists are being

pressured to skip key risk assessment tests, which would protect particularly

vulnerable groups, like fetuses, infants and children.

 

The EPA has till August 3rd to issue final tolerance approval 20

organiphosaphate and carbamate pesticies. Organophosphate and carbamate

pesticides are derived from World War II nerve agents. These agents are

particularly harmful to children, infants and fetuses. Many industrialized

countries, including England, Sweden, and Denmark, have banned these toxic

pesticides. The Clinton Administration began to outlaw these agents, but Bush

Administration political appointees have chosen to “align with the pesticide

industry and former EPA officials now representing the pesticide and agriculture

community.”

 

Send a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency's Administrator Johnson to

either adopt maximum exposure protections for these agents or take them off the

market.

 

take action at

 

 

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/oca/campaign.jsp?campaign_\

KEY=4064

 

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