study to expose children to pesticides

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I received this email and thought you all would want to hear about it...

 

 

Dear friend,The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced plans to launch anoutrageous new study in which participating low income families will havetheir children exposed to toxic pesticides over the course of two years. Fortaking part in these studies, each family will receive $970, a free videocamera, a T-shirt, and a framed certificate of appreciation. The studyentitled CHEERS (Childrenís Environmental Exposure Research Study) will lookat how chemicals can be ingested, inhaled or absorbed by children rangingfrom babies to 3 years old.Please take a moment to follow this link andjoin tens of thousands of citizens in petitioning the EPA to terminate thisstudy prior to its proposed launch in early 2005.More information, relatednewspaper headlines and petition here: copy and paste this address into yourbrowser to open:http://www.organicconsumers.org/epa-alert.htmPlease also forward thismessage.

 

 

[Guest guest]

Bonnie and gang...

 

I received this same posting from another herbal friend last week

and sent it to everyone i know without doing a little background

check first. I like the Organic web site, they have alot of good

information and a good cause, but it seems this article did have a

slight spin on it that was a bit mis-leading. You may all want to

check it out. The bottom line is, it seems that they are not

actually soliciting families to bring harmful checmicals into their

homes, but are asking families to participate and then doing the

study based on stuff already in the home. If this is in fact the

case, this could help to educate lower income or other participating

families to dangers they were not aware of.

 

Here is the response from one of my friends husbands who was a bit

more diligent thean me!

 

Sylvia

 

My husband researched this issue and found info below.... I was so

upset by it that he wanted to find more facts.

 

RE: if you have small children - please read this! If you

dont, please pass it on!

 

This fowarded article is very biased and misleading. According the

the US Enviromental Protection Agency, CHEERS is a research program

that evalutes and studies children's exposure to pesticide that are

ALREADY in or around the home. Chemicals and pesticides are not

being inserted into the homes of these children and thier parents.

Existing persicides that the children are already exposed will be

focus of the study in the spring of 2005. The EPA won't allow

applicant to participate in the study if its suggested that they

will consciously put pesticides in their home.

Pesticides are used for a variety of purposes and this study is

aimed at studying the harmful effects of pesticides on young

children so that these families can be instructed how to effectively

counteract and avoid using and/or living around such chemicals.

Four Institusional review boards (IRBs) have approved this study as

it complies with the standards set to protect human subjects in

experimental studies. These IRBs include experts in health and

medicine as well as in ethics and community advocacy.

The voluntary subjects participating in this study are not being

used as " guinea pigs " to test experimental pesticides. The study

looks at the presence and level of pesticides in the childrens'

homes and evalutes the harmful effects caused by these pesticides.

The EPA gets to study the harmful effects pesticides used on the

environment have on children, while the parents of these children

are alerted to high pesticide levels around where they live and are

shown ways to prevent the pesticides from harming thier children.

Also, the guidelines for this study state nothing about soliciting

poor families to participate at the risk of thier own peril. The EPA

does however compensate participants for thier time and energy

because they're ethically required to by law! The study compensates

for food samples taken from the home as well as electricity expended

while samples are taken in the home.

The article fowarded is one of many articles the EPA has

acknowledged as misinterpreting and posing mischaracterizations of

this study.

 

Forward this message on to all those who were wrongly informed.

 

Andrew

 

 

herbal remedies , " Bonnie Rogers "

<bonnie@c...> wrote:

> I received this email and thought you all would want to hear about

it...

>

> Dear friend,

>

>

> The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced plans to

launch an

> outrageous new study in which participating low income families

will have

> their children exposed to toxic pesticides over the course of two

years. For

> taking part in these studies, each family will receive $970, a

free video

> camera, a T-shirt, and a framed certificate of appreciation. The

study

> entitled CHEERS (Childrenís Environmental Exposure Research Study)

will look

> at how chemicals can be ingested, inhaled or absorbed by children

ranging

> from babies to 3 years old.

>

> Please take a moment to follow this link and

> join tens of thousands of citizens in petitioning the EPA to

terminate this

> study prior to its proposed launch in early 2005.

>

> More information, related

> newspaper headlines and petition here: copy and paste this address

into your

> browser to open:

>

>

>

> http://www.organicconsumers.org/epa-alert.htm

>

> Please also forward this

> message.

[Guest guest]

Isn't this the one where children who are now being

exposed to pesticides are going to be checked out? To

see what damage the pesticides they have already been

exposed to are causing?

 

Janelle

 

 

--- Bonnie Rogers <bonnie wrote:

 

> I received this email and thought you all would want

> to hear about it...

>

> Dear friend,

>

>

> The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has

> announced plans to launch an

> outrageous new study in which participating low

> income families will have

> their children exposed to toxic pesticides over the

> course of two years. For

> taking part in these studies, each family will

> receive $970, a free video

> camera, a T-shirt, and a framed certificate of

> appreciation. The study

> entitled CHEERS (Childrenís Environmental Exposure

> Research Study) will look

> at how chemicals can be ingested, inhaled or

> absorbed by children ranging

> from babies to 3 years old.

>

> Please take a moment to follow this link and

> join tens of thousands of citizens in petitioning

> the EPA to terminate this

> study prior to its proposed launch in early 2005.

>

> More information, related

> newspaper headlines and petition here: copy and

> paste this address into your

> browser to open:

>

>

>

> http://www.organicconsumers.org/epa-alert.htm

>

> Please also forward this

> message.

>

>

>

>

 

 

 

 

 

 

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