Jane,

Truly sorry to learn of your acute allergies. For the rare person, such
as yourself, who is alergic to all these products, live must be a real
challenge there where you are in the heart of farm country.

In Washington state people with medically documented allergies such as
yours can register with EPA and then thereafter be notified every time
before anyone with a pesticide applicator's license uses any restricted
use pesticide (be it an insecticide, herbicide or fungicide) within a 1/2
mile of their domicile or place of work.

DDT, of course, came into use before EPA existed, when the only approval
given came from the market place. Things are vastly different now and
DDT actually isn't a glaring example of anything in this case. As for
research, well I only know what I'm taught in the courses (put on by the
WSU Extention Service) that I take to keep my pesticide licenses current,
but I've received the impression that every aspect of these products
currently available has been researched ad nauseum.

Since I only spot spray (not broadcast) a couple of days in late July,
and if these beetles work as advertised maybe not at all now, I think
your risk is pretty low should you ever visit, but given that a certain
lunatic has made me the object of his obsession, the sheriff has advised
me that it would be unwise to publish my home address or place of work in
this forum. I hope you can understand.

Dennis K Rockwell
Kennewick, Washington
denniskrockwell at juno.com

On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 11:05:24 PST "Jane Westervelt" <jwesterv at uidaho.edu>
writes:
>
>> And just what is the point of all that manual labor when there is
Rodeo and at least one formulation of 2-4-D, both >>approved by the EPA
and Washington Dept. of Ag. for use in wetlands, which when used
according to label >>instructions, kills P. loosestrife dead all the way
to the tips of it's roots.
>
>The fact that a chemical has been approved for whatever use does not
mean it is harmless. DDT is a glaring >example. Not that I'm saying
this will have the same effect as DDT, but there are other indirect
effects that may not >have been thoroughly researched, such as allergies.
Mine are so bad that I have yet to find a pesticide, herbicide, >or
fungicide that I can be around, and believe me, we've searched.
>
>With that in mind, would you share with us where exactly you've been
spraying all these herbicides Dennis? It >sounds like yet another place
that I can't go if I want to breathe.
>jw
>Jane Westervelt
>Steve Kalloger
>Moscow, ID

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