Sin embargo, varias pesquisas han determinado que existe una relación estrecha entre algunos de esos químicos y enfermedades como el cáncer, el mal de Parkinson, los defectos de nacimiento y la reducción del número de espermas en el hombre. Numerosos estudios muestran que los agricultores están más expuestos a sufrir leucemia y otros tipos de cáncer que el resto de la población, en tanto que los niños que nacen en zonas agrícolas manifiestan mayor proporción de defectos de nacimiento. La acumulación de tales sustancias, absorbidas por los humanos a través del aire, los alimentos y el agua es denominada por los científicos "carga de pesticidas en el cuerpo". La razón de que este indicador resultara ser espectacularmente alto entre los niños examinados por el CDC obedece a que éstos abs...
... Susan Kegley, científica asociada a Pesticide Action Network. El CDC examinó a un total de 9,28...
In the wake of "Climategate," in which a series of leaked e- mails among prominent climate scientists showed concerted efforts to silence competing researchers and manipulate the peer-review process, one would think scientists as a group would be increasingly cognizant of the tone and content of their communications. But at least one well-known scientist seems to be exactly the opposite. Tyrone Hayes, a research scientist at the University of California at Berkeley, has for many years been a leading voice in the anti-pesticide movement. In fact, his studies on atrazine, while repudiated by many health authorities around the world, have been a mainstay in the efforts of the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Pesticide Action Network North America and others to ban pesticides. His...
CDFA, however, disagrees. Agency staff placed cards along the shoreline before the September spraying, and lab tests have concluded that the pheromone product did not land on them, says CDFA spokesman Steve LyIe. "In the unlikely event the material would reach the ocean, it's nontoxic to sea life and doesn't present a risk," he says. At MBNMS's request, UC Davis' Marine Pollution Studies Laboratory independently tested the toxicity of Check Mate LBAM-F, one of the two pheromone formulas being sprayed on the Peninsula. Lab staff put a small dose of the product (reflecting the aerial application rate) into a beaker of seawater containing larval mussels and monitored their development for 48 hours. "There was no effect on the survival or the development of the organism," says researcher Br...
... (EPA) and the state Department of Pesticide Regulations. The company would not provide the lis...According to the Pesticide Action Network North America, a San Francisco-based publi...
Methyl iodide is not an ozone depleter like methyl bromide," says Susan Kegley, a senior scientist at Pesticide Action Network. "But that's the only nice thing I can say about it" On Sept. 16, 1987, the US joined 23 countries and the European Economic Community in Montreal, Canada to sign the Montreal Protocol, an agreement to abolish the use of ozone depleting chemicals, including methyl bromide. Developed nations pledged to cure themselves of their addiction to the pesticide by Jan. 1, 2005. The US vowed to do better: to ban the use of methyl bromide in California by 1997, and to ban its import and production nationwide by 2001. David Chatfield, executive director of Californians for Pesticide Reform, is baffled by the notion of replacing methyl bromide with methyl iodide. "It's ...
HONOLULU, Feb. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In a first step toward public disclosure of test sites of biopharmaceutical crops, the U.S. Department of Agriculture was forced by court order on February 4 to reveal the locations of these sites in Hawai`i. Following the ruling, representatives of the USDA handed over to Earthjustice attorneys information on the precise locations of open-air field tests of biopharmaceutical crops genetically engineered to produce industrial chemicals and drugs. This marks the first time the federal government has been forced to disclose the location of field tests of genetically engineered crops since it began systematically hiding these locations from the public. Earthjustice, representing citizen groups Center for Food Safety (CFS), Friends of the Earth, Pesticide...
We just don't know how bad it is," says Margaret Reeves, senior scientist for Pesticide Action Network North America. "We know it's highly toxic and we know what the initial symptoms to exposure are, but it's the long-term effects for humans about which we know very little. And that's the case for hundreds of pesticides now in use. [Bob Roach] says a new policy--dubbed Enforcement Response Policy--now being adopted by the state's Department of Pesticide Regulation will "tighten up" pesticide enforcement in individual counties. "This new matrix will cause more enforcement actions, like fines, than before," Roach says. "Clearly his vote supports the interests of the chemical industry," Reeves says. "It's a defeat, but the issues aren't going to go away."
Atrazine should concern Illinoisans Farm columnist Alan Guebert did an excellent job May 9 of summarizing the many disturbing questions surrounding the herbicide atrazine ("Atrazine has nothing to hide during probe," Page E1).
...-based Land Stewardship Project and the Pesticide Action Network have published a report documenting...
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