SECTION 2:
PESTICIDES & WEEDICIDES -- We Are Exposed Everywhere Because They Are Used Everywhere
THE SHOCKING IMPACT OF PESTICIDES & WEEDICIDES ON CHILDRENS' HEALTH
PERSONAL STUDY FOLLOWING PESTICIDE
POISONING
Note the following pdf file (670 KB) which details my letter to Australian Standards (who didn't bother to reply),
regarding my personal issue with
termiticide poisoning and the extensive research I have uncovered on the toxicity of pesticides and other organic chemicals. Importantly, I have found that:
Organic chemicals (such as petrol) can penetrate plastic drinking water pipes and contaminate the water supply of a unit that is too close to a petrol or gas station. What might this indicate in terms of organic chemicals such as termiticides, pesticides and weedicides?
Organic chemicals can diffuse through the clay lining of a waste pit (even against the flow of incoming water!). This provides a warning in terms of termiticides penetrating similarly POROUS concrete slabs underneath a unit or house.
These 2 files (Chemic1.jpg and Chemic2.jpg) feature my submissions to the media. They have extremely valuable information pertaining to how many cases of child poisoning are misdiagnosed as other ailments! Find out if your child's symptoms are listed. As well, I note that there exists the distinct possibility that asthma medications may be a prime cause for meningococcal disease.
There is little chance, however, that this hypothesis would ever be energetically examined, since there are billions of dollars tied up in asthma medication sales. The last thing any pharmaceutical transnational corporation would want is their business put at risk through their toxic products being implicated in causing health problems in humans. Yet, multiple tens of thousands of individuals die worldwide annually through the toxic side-effects of prescribed drugs (sometimes, only very occasionally, a doctor will admit that a patient died from the drugs that were being tested on them, rather than the actual disease...). Meningococcal disease, kidney failure, heart disease, chronic fatigue and liver cirrhosis would represent just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the morbidity suffered by millions of poisoned people on their way to an early medication-induced death.
HEADLINES!
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http://www.beyondpesticides.org/news/daily.htm
Copied/Accessed: April 30, 2005, and used with the permission of: BEYONDPESTICIDES.ORG
School District Celebrates Six Years of Student Protection Though IPM
(Beyond Pesticides, April 12, 2005) Today, the Los Angeles Unified School District Board (LAUSD) will officially commemorate its 6-year partnership with California Safe Schools (CSS) in protecting student health while keeping campuses free of pests and weeds. In recognizing CSS, the School Board is also celebrating six successful years of its Integrated Pest Management Policy (IPM), which uses low risk methods to protecting school sites from pests and weeds.
In partnership with CSS, LAUSD implemented the first policy in the USA to embrace the "precautionary principle" and gave parents Right to Know about chemicals being used in and around school campuses. The policy which includes staff training, and a fifteen member oversight committee comprised of diverse individuals (doctor, parents, district staff, teacher, community members, principal, environmentalists ,County Health Representative and "Independent " IPM Experts) meet monthly to ensure implementation.
Today the policy has become the model for the nation. "I am very grateful to California Safe Schools and Los Angeles Unified for being in the forefront of health and safety for now just students, but teachers, staff, and community members who visit or live near school sites," said Jacqueline Cambas, parent of a Los Angeles Unified student. "CSS is thrilled to have forged such a strong relationship with the school district over such a vital concern as the health of growing children" said Robina Suwol, Executive Director of CSS. "Time has proved that kids benefit enormously when parents and schools work together."
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The preamble to the Los Angeles Unified Integrated Policy states: "Pesticides pose risks to human health and the environment, with special risks to children. It is recognized that pesticides cause adverse health effects in humans such as cancer, neurological disruption, birth defects, genetic alteration, reproductive harm, immune system dysfunction, endocrine disruption and acute poisoning. Pests will be controlled to protect the health and safety of students and staff, maintain a productive learning environment and maintain the integrity of school buildings and grounds. Pesticides will not be used to control pests for aesthetic reasons alone. The safety and health of students, staff and the environment will be paramount."
Since its initial work with LAUSD, CSS has been sought out by parents and schools
around the state and the nation to help find the best ways to protect children's health from toxic chemicals while keeping campuses free of pests and weeds. CSS has also played a role in legislation to protect student health.
TAKE ACTION: Find out what state laws and local policies govern your school. Contact Beyond Pesticides to learn how to get your school to adopt an IPM program by:
(1) Identifying the school's pest management policy;
(2) Educating yourself and evaluating the program;
(3) Organizing the school community;
(4) Working with school decision-makers; and,
(5) Becoming a watchdog and establishing an IPM Committee.
If your school already has an IPM program in place or other laws regarding pesticide use or right-to-know, find out if they are complying. Work with your school to see what is being done and what still needs to get done. For more information, see Beyond Pesticides' Children and Schools issue pages.
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http://www.beyondpesticides.org/schools/index.htm
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Children face unique hazards from pesticide exposure. They take in more pesticides relative to their body weight than adults in the food they eat and air they breathe. Their developing organ systems often make them more sensitive to toxic exposure. The U.S. EPA, National Academy of Sciences, and American Public Health Association, among others, have voiced concerns about the danger that pesticides pose to children. The body of evidence in scientific literature shows that pesticide exposure can adversely affect a child's neurological, respiratory, immune, and endocrine system, even at low levels. Several pesticides, such as pyrethrins and pyrethroids, organophosphates and carbamates, are also known to cause or exacerbate asthma symptoms. See Select Studies on Pesticides and Children's Health.
Beyond Pesticides' Healthy Schools Project aims to minimize and eliminate
the risks posed by pesticides through the adoption of school pest
management policies and programs at the local, state, and federal level,
thereby creating a healthier learning environment. Central to this effort
are activities aimed at public education on pesticide hazards and efficacy
of alternatives, and the continued development of model communities that
serve as examples.
Recognizing a growing concern of school administrators, staff and parents
regarding the mounting evidence that pesticides pose a public health hazard
and a consequent commitment to non-toxic options, the implementation of
safer pest management practices by 27 school districts and schools in 19
states are documented in Safer Schools: Achieving a Healthy Learning
Environment Through Integrated Pest Management, a report by the School
Pesticide Reform Coalition and Beyond Pesticides. Written by a broad group
of individuals representing advocacy groups, state agencies, pest control
companies, and school staff, the report leverages schools, states, and the
federal government to adopt safer pest management programs for schools
and communities.
Safer Schools provides comprehensive details of an IPM program by: (1)
explaining what an IPM program is and why it is necessary; (2)
highlighting 27 school districts and individual school IPM policies and
programs; and, (3) outlining the basic steps to getting a school IPM
program adopted. The report also includes a list of organizations, pest
management companies, and government and school contacts that can
provide a wealth of information on adopting a school IPM policy and its
implementation; a list of states and schools that have an IPM/pesticide
policy; and, a pest prevention strategies checklist.
Whether it is advocating for the the adoption of the School Environment
Protection Act (SEPA) or local and state policies, having examples of
existing and economically feasible programs is critical.
CHEMICAL THREAT TO CHILDREN For a short and to-the-point article (Chemical Threat to Children) listing the toxicological reasons why synthetic chemicals (especially pesticides and weedicides) are extremely dangerous to children's health, click on the following links for the html or pdf document in the desired language (these files are hosted on my People Poisoned website):
- Ameaca Quimica as Criancas_port_Portuguese.html (Língua portuguese - Portuguese) or pdf document
- Amenaza Quimica para los Ninos_span_Spanish.html (Lengua española - Spanish) or pdf document
- Chemical Threat to Children_chinsi (Simplified Chinese).html (简体中文语言) or pdf document (pdf 文件)
- Chemical Threat to Children.html (English language) or pdf document
- Chemical Threat to Children_chintr (Traditional Chinese).html (繁體中文語言) or pdf document (pdf 文件)
- Chemical Threat to Children_japa (Japanese).html (日本言語) or pdf document (pdf 文書)
- Chemical Threat to Children_kore (Korean).html (한국말 언어) or pdf document (pdf 문서)
- Chemical Threat to Children_russ (Russian).html (Русский язык) or pdf document (pdf документ)
- Chemical Threat to Children_germ (German).html (Deutsche Sprache) or pdf document (pdf Dokument)
- Chemical Threat to Children_fren (French).html (Langue française) or pdf document
- Minaccia Chimica Contro i Bambini_ital_Italian.html (Lingua italiana) or pdf document (pdf documento)
If you have a poisoning emergency in the United States call 1-800-222-1222. If the victim has collapsed or is unconscious, call 911. If you have a poisoning emergency in Australia, ring 13 11 26. This number is Australia-wide, and available 24/7. If the victim has collapsed or is unconscious, call 000.
POISONING LINKS WORLDWIDE (GLOBAL CRISIS SOLUTION CENTER)
POISONING LINKS WORLDWIDE (WHO WORLD DIRECTORY OF POISONS CENTERS)
NOTE: PAN Pesticides Database - Pesticide Poisoning Diagnostic Tool (please see: http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Search_Poisoning.jsp)
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Pesticides and School Playing Fields
Parents and teachers spend a lot of time ensuring the safety of children. Yet the common, everyday practices used to maintain our children's playing fields are
unintentionally and unnecessarily exposing them to carcinogens, asthmagens, and developmental toxins. As the summer season begins, it is important to know that the typical soccer field is deluged with a mixture of poisons designed to kill fungus, weeds, and insects. A conventional maintenance plan includes the use of a fungicide on a regular basis to prevent fungal pathogens; a pre-emergent herbicide (such as 2, 4-D) to kill crabgrass and dandelion seed; a selective herbicide (such as Trimec or Mecoprop) to kill clover and other broadleaf weeds; and an insecticide (such as Imidacloprid or Trichlorfon) to kill grubs and other insects. These are all synthetic pesticides, and their use on playing fields is particularly troubling because children come into direct contact
with the grass, and have repeated, and prolonged exposures...
Many people think that the pesticides "wear off," and that children are not being exposed. However, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) found multiple pesticide residue in children's bod ies, including the herbicide 2,4-D, which was found in significantly higher levels in children ages 6-11 than all other age categories.
(School Pesticide Monitor 2006, Pesticides and Playing Fields: Are We Unintentionally Harming Our Children?, Vol. 6 No. 3 May/June 2006, http://BeyondPesticides.org)
Select Studies on Pesticides and Children's Health
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/schools/publications/Select%20Studies.htm
Copied/Accessed and expanded: April 30, 2005
Prenatal and Childhood Exposure
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/news/daily_news_archive/2004/05_18_04.htm
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/news/daily_news_archive/2004/04_15_04.htm
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/news/daily_news_archive/2004/03_25_04.htm
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/news/daily_news_archive/2003/12_15_03.htm
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/news/daily_news_archive/2004/05_05_04.htm
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/news/daily_news_archive/2004/04_22_04.htm
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/news/daily_news_archive/2003/12_08_03.htm
Pesticide Body Burden
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/news/daily_news_archive/2004/05_12_04.htm
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/news/daily_news_archive/2004/03_16_04.htm
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/news/daily_news_archive/2004/02_17_04.htm
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/news/daily_news_archive/2003/12_02_03.htm
Other Relevant Studies
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/news/daily_news_archive/2004/04_26_04.htm
Mix of Stress and Chemical Exposure Causes Brain Damage (3/1/04)
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/news/daily_news_archive/2004/03_01_04.htm
Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Indoor Air and Dust in Homes (1/7/04)
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/news/daily_news_archive/2004/01_07_04.htm
Study Shows Neurotoxic Pesticide Chlorpyrifos Also Damages Heart and Liver (11/21/03)
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/news/daily_news_archive/2003/11_21_03.htm
More Research Links Pesticides to Nerve Cell Damage and Parkinson's Disease (11/10/03)
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/news/daily_news_archive/2003/11_10_03.htm
Marcia G. Nishioka, Robert G. Lewis, Marielle C. Brinkman, Hazel M.
Burkholder, Charles E. Hines, and John R. Menkedick, "Distribution of
2,4-D in Air and on Surfaces inside Residences after Lawn Applications:
Comparing Exposure Estimates from Various Media for Young Children,
"Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 109, Number 11, November 2001.
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2001/109p1185-1191nishioka/abstract.html
Lennart Hardell and Mikarl Eriksson, "A Case-Control Study of Non-Hodgkin
Lymphoma and Exposure to Pesticides," American Cancer Society, 1999.
* PDF file; requires the free Acrobat Reader to view.
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School Pesticide Reform Coalition
Learning Starts With A Healthy Environment
701 E Street SE #200, Washington, DC 20003 - 202-543-5450 - shoover@beyondpesticides.orghttp://www.beyondpesticides.org/toxicfreeschools/index.htm
Copied/Accessed: April 30, 2005
Children are among the most vulnerable to adverse health effects of
pesticides. A variety of age-related physiological factors explain the
increased sensitivity that children face. Not only do younger and smaller
people by nature receive a higher dose of toxics, they have a decreased
ability to eliminate toxics and their target organs may be more sensitive
to toxic effects. In addition, the probability of an effect such as cancer,
which requires a period of time to develop after exposure, is enhanced
if exposure occurs early in life.
Pesticides, toxic chemicals widely used to kill insects, weeds and fungus
in schools, are a danger to children's health. Because they are poisons,
low levels of pesticide exposure can have adverse effects to a child's
neurological, respiratory, immune and endocrine system. Some commonly
used insecticides, such as pyrethroids, stimulate nerves causing
hyperexcitability. They are also associated with asthma. Some
insecticides, herbicides and fungicides are linked to cancer. The commonly
used weed killer 2,4-D has been linked to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
in scientific studies.
Acute or immediate symptoms of attention are often mistaken
for the flu - headache, nausea, dizziness, sweating, muscle aches or
tremors. Other symptoms to look out for include rashes, disorientation
and lack of concentration. Former EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman
unequivocally stated, "Childhood exposure to pesticides is an environmental
health risk facing children today."
Fortunately, schools can significantly decrease and ultimately eliminate
their use hazardous pesticides while successfully and cost-effectively
managing pest problems in school buildings and on school grounds.
Such safer pest management strategies, such as an Integrated Pest
Management (IPM) program, use alternatives to the prevailing chemical-
intensive practices. School IPM is not a new approach to pest management.
It is a concept that has been implemented in various communities, schools
and government facilities for decades.
IPM is a program of prevention, monitoring and control that offers the
opportunity to eliminate or drastically reduce hazardous pesticide use in
schools. IPM is intended to establish a program that utilizes cultural,
mechanical, biological, and other non-toxic practices, and only introducing
least hazardous chemicals as a last resort, if at all.
See the new report Safer Schools: Achieving A Healthy Learning
Environment Through Integrated Pest Management, which features 27
school districts and schools and schools in 19 states that are successfully
implementing IPM programs. SPRC is currently developing a list to help IPM
practitioners identify non-toxic and least-toxic solutions to pest problems.
The list is organized by pest. To learn more, contact Beyond Pesticides.
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Toxic Rain!
What are we doing with this planet? Susan Thorpe Vargas says most rain in Europe is polluted with high levels of pesticide. When I did my Degree I learnt that much of the cloud cover above agricultural land is actually pesticide vapor, for God's sake! Does the term "Gas Chamber" mean anything here?
Corporate Obsession With Poisoning The World
Corporations typically institutionalize the most abusive behaviors and generate the most damage. It is so with regard to totalitarian governments. It is also the case with regard to pesticides and weedicides (or herbicides), where bureaucrasies of all kinds and sizes almost uniformly choose to use toxic nerve agents to suppress weed problems, to the supreme detriment of public health and human survival!
Corporations are bad enough in terms of the way they treat people out of context with their real circumstances. Here, you will understand how corporations and bureaucrasies usually offer homogenous prescriptions for their expectations of your behaviour, or the duties you are called upon to perform if the bureaucrasy has some form of leverage over you. Government departments are typically incredibly difficult to deal with, because they fail to recognize your particular needs. In this way people are often abused by governments, with their needs going unrecognized. Stress through dealing with bureacrasies can sometimes tip people over the edge, and change their lives forever, and usually not for the better.
Better business practise usually involves some general theoretical notion of increased efficiency. Efficiency and organization are seen as indicators of what is thought to represent improvement, or progress. However, these notions are seriously flawed because the actual dealing-with-people part, and the outcomes of this dealing-with-people process are generally considered only in terms of business efficiency: getting the job done and ticked off -- removed from the 'inbox'. And business does not consider: love, concern, relationships, psychological/emotional nourishment.
Corporations that look at business this way will automatically be abusive toward the people they deal with (ask people in Australia what they think of Centrelink, the Federal Government welfare department). Corporate bodies that deal with peoples' homes in the public housing sector, for example the New South Wales Land and Housing Commission (or the New South Wales Department of Housing [DOH, for short]), have this problem. The DOH, in my experience, is a government department that seeks quick and efficient technological fixes to human-oriented problems. By design, the DOH fails to include the humanity of humans in its decisions. In this way, the DOH abuses public housing tenants because their needs (and particularly their health status) are not recognized and included in the prescription for the 'fix'.
You might advise and warn the DOH til you are black in the face regarding your health status, but this information will never be recognized. Decisions regarding the DOH accomodation you live in will then become context independent of your real-life circumstances of which health is FUNDAMENTAL.
With information regarding your sensitivities -- say chemical sensitivities -- ignored, the DOH can order termiticide treatments of your accomodation with total disregard to the intersection of toxic vapors from the pesticide application and YOUR BODY!! It doesn't matter, also, that you might have a child in the unit with you. It doesn't matter that children are 6 times more vulnerable to exposure to toxic chemicals than adults. The treatment will still be ordered, and even a second treatment if the first doesn't work properly (even when you complain about getting sick with the first treatment). I know of a DOH residence in South Windsor in Sydney (the subject of this webpage) that has been treated with toxic termiticides no less than 9 times within a 6 year period, and I have a signed statement from the current tenant (as of October 2006) of that residence to substantiate this! This is a DOH unit that I investigated when previous tenants became very sick through a monumental termite infestation of that residence. In this instance, those tenants claimed that the DOH ignored their requests to do something about the infestation -- for 2 years. The outcome: yet another DOH residence is destroyed by termites (with a fridge partially sinking into the kitchen floor). When the DOH eventually decided to act, they overused a treatment that is patently useless, and have subjected the current tenants to at least 9, and possibly 10, termiticide treatments. These tenants are both very sick people.
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I HAVE VERY FEW RESOURCES TO WORK WITH, AND HAVE BEEN BADLY HURT AND DISADVANTAGED BY PESTICIDE POISONING. THIS MAKES LIFE INFINITELY MORE DIFFICULT (AS ANY POISONING VICTIM KNOWS), BECAUSE POISONING SYMPTOMS REDUCE YOUR ENERGY LEVELS, PREDISPOSE YOU TO DEPRESSION, AND THEREFORE -- IN REAL TERMS -- SHRINK YOUR OPTIONS FOR EMPLOYMENT AND ADVANCEMENT (therefore, in my case, I have had to consider a massive career change to suit
my disabilities and recovery time).
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