Aerial Pesticide Spraying: Asthma, Emphysema, Lung Disease, Skin Rashes: If You Live In California It May Get Worse

I never thought when I started this blog in July 2006 that my search for clean air would lead to an education on nuclear storage leakage, paper mill pollution in otherwise "clean" air areas, water and soil toxic contamination from corporate and military dumping, and now...

I've created a new category, Aerial Pesticide Spraying.

If you live, or plan to visit California over the next two to three year period you must know that as of this writing, Governor Schwarzenegger plans to allow tens of millions of city dwellers to be sprayed like bugs with untested pesticides.

(Update: Collective action to stop the spray was effective as of about Aug 2008. But the dangerous spray was sprayed on communities, including me during a Santa Cruz visit prior to halt. To read about the severity of what went on, read further.)

The pesticides were "tested" on Santa Cruz and Monterey County residents last year, and many got sick with asthma, and worse.

The spray is slated to begin this summer, and go on every thirty to ninety days during a three year period, and linger in the air, and our lungs, for up to 30 days at a time.

If Schwarzenegger thinks this spray will save our agricultural industry (it's debatable if farming is at risk due to the light brown apple moth or if the moth can even be eradicated) just think what it may do to our healthcare and tourism industries.

Below I've listed ingredients in the pesticide, and what we know about its effect on animals' fetuses, lungs, skin, brain, heart, kidneys...

My uncle's friend Larry Rose used to be a physician with OSHA, specializing in pesticides.

He sent below list of what's in the light brown apple moth's pesticide, currently slated to be sprayed over populations in

Santa Cruz, Monterey= June 1, 2008

San Francisco, Daly City, Oakland, Marin County=August 1, 2008.

And every 30-90 days spray thereafter until...

And unless we stop it.

Please, let's stop it.

For pending dates and to stay abreast of current actions, click The California Alliance To Stop The Spray

Regarding PR efforts for and against spray, I'll document research and information here.

Consider reading Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, she's an environmentalist who many years ago wrote the groundbreaking book, linking pesticides and our toxic life to increase in cancer and disease.

LBAM Pesticide Sprays' Toxic Additives  

References: U.S. National Institute for

Occupational Safety and Health Data Base,

and/or Canadian Center for Occupational

Safety and Health and/or Manufacturers'

Material Safety Data Written Warnings and/or EU

International Program on Chemical Safety.

(Based upon Animal testing)

Ammonium Phosphate

Toxicities: Inhalation results

in pulmonary inflammation

2-hydroxy-4-n-octyloxybenzophenone

Toxicities: Kidney, ureter bladder, liver

lung, skin, eye and blood cell damage.

1,2-benzisothiazol-3-1

Toxicities: Gene damage, skin irritation and

allergic skin reaction. Increases allergic reaction to other chemicals

Butylated Hydroxytoluene

Toxicities: Fetal Damage and Genetic Damage.

Kidney Cancers. Brain, Central Nervous System, lung,

eye, liver, skin, urinary system and blood cell Damage

Sodium Phosphate

Toxicities: Endocrine and blood abnormalities.

Tricaprylyl methyl ammonium chloride

Toxicities: Behavioral abnormalities (Brain effects)

muscle weakness.

State's "Reassuring" Consensus statement on

Human Health Aspects of the Aerial Application of

Microencapuslated pheromones

to combat the Light Brown Apple Moth.

October 31, 2007. DPR, Office of

Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA),

with input from the Dept of Public Health.

Quotes:

A)This document is not intended to be

a detailed human health risk assessment.

B) We have not reviewed toxicity studies on all of

the specific active ingredients in LBAM

pheromone products. (comment: and no tests on

so-called "inert additives")

C) This statement (of our safety evaluation) refers

primarily to the pheromone active ingredients used

in emitter devices or aerial application over

agricultural areas, rather than aerial application

over populated areas.

State CDFA "Definition" of an

LBAM "Host Species"

"A species of vegetation on which the LBAM has

been reported to be present"

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Comments

[Dirnov]

Greetings, Thank you! I would now go on this blog every day!

Thank you
Dirnov

[Dorothy]

when oh when are you going to contact the national media? We are running out of time, Santa Cruz and Monterey to be sprayed in 45 days time. We need coverage in Time and Newsweek, and investigative reporting on 60 Minutes and any of the similar shows.