EPA APPROVES PESTICIDE KNOWN TO CAUSE CANCER & MISCARRIAGES

On October 5, the EPA approved a new chemical fumigant for use onstrawberries and other food crops across the U.S. The pesticide,methyl iodide, vaporizes quickly, causing it to drift far distances.Although the state of California has categorized it as cancer causing,and the EPA admits it causes thyroid tumors, the Bush Administrationhas been advocating approval of the fumigant for the better part oftwo years. In a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson onSeptember 25, the nation's leading chemists asked EPA not to approvemethyl iodide without further scientific review. The chemical has beenused to induce cancer in laboratory experiments and causesneurological and thyroid problems, as well as miscarriages in studieswith laboratory animals. Farmworkers, families, rural workers, and thefood supply will now be subjected to exposure to the carcinogen unlessthe EPA revokes the approval immediately.

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