Keep Methyl Iodide Out of California!
PSR-LA | Dec 08, 2009 | Comments 2
Action starts: December 8, 2009
Action ends: December 14, 2009
State authorities will likely decide this month if they will allow the use of methyl iodide – a highly carcinogenic and water contaminating chemical – as a pesticide in California. We have to act now to ensure that methyl iodide is never used in California’s fields.
Methyl iodide is so dangerous that it is used to create cancer in laboratories and over 50 scientists across the country – 5 of them Nobel Laureates – sent a letter to the EPA expressing astonishment that the agency was “working to legalize broadcast releases of one of the more toxic chemicals used in manufacturing into the environment.”
Exposure to methyl iodide is linked to severe health concerns, including miscarriages and cancer. Scientists are concerned that it will contaminate groundwater. State agencies estimate that workers could be exposed to 3000 times the “acceptable” dose.
Methyl Iodide would be one of the most toxic pesticides in use in California, would seriously threaten the health of farmworkers and rural communities, and could contaminate California’s groundwater.
The agrochemical industry is pushing hard to use methyl iodide. Make sure your voice is heard: Demand that this highly toxic chemical not be approved as a pesticide in California!
Take Action Now!
- Call California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger TODAY and tell him not to register methyl iodide. Call his office at 916-445-2841 and say “I’m [name] from [city, state] and I’m calling to urge the Governor to not register the highly toxic, cancer-causing chemical methyl iodide as a pesticide in California. Thank you.” One call right now will make a difference!
- Sign onto the letter to Governor Schwarzenegger and DPR Director Warmerdam, highlighting the toxic health risks associate with methyl iodide.
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I have tons of original testimony from the scientists themselves. This article does not go far enough. This is the 10th largest chemical company in the world. Atysta LifeSciences AKA, Syngenta and 100s of other companys all owned by Arysta. The nature of chemicals is that they seek out and form new compounds. We know that Methyl Iodide is 5 times heavier than air. So it looks for ground water to connect to and form Methyl Alcohol, like wood alcohol it kills, the saying is 2 table spoons and your blind and a half a cup and your dead. Like that Chinese toy company that coated the toys shipped to the us tainted with the “date rape drug” Children were sucking/teething on the toys and going into a coma.It was the saliva and the chemical mixing together. Sabotage – so is this. It will be imported into the US because of the NAFTA trade agreements. Islam Siddiqui – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2xDmp6UYLs Is friends with Bill Lewis of Arysta. It is Chemical and it is a threat to our national security. Because in a very short time we will see less and less water being safe to drink. Over 50 thousand lbs of this was spilled in South Carolina in 2002 according to the web site scorecard.org, well that is enough for now.
There are protests today in Sacramento according to Bill Monning of the State Assembly.