By: fritzi cohen

fritzi cohen — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:00:16 +0000

I’m curious. In Willapa Bay they have switched from BASF’s Imazapyr registered for aquatic use as Habitat. We were told the patent ran out and that is why the State and Federal agencies involved are using Polaris, NuFarm’s imazapyr product.
I’m interested in BASF mentioning its concerns re the discrepancy between a containers label and its contents. As it is Habitat and Polaris
both are listed as being 53% imazapyr. Even though we are unable to know what the 47% of other ingredients are, we were told by the Dept. of Ecology that EPA registration of one product e.g. Habitat, would cover Polaris because the active ingredient is identical. What made this particularly fishy is that the move to Polaris (Nufarm) seemed to occur when BASF refused to allow the state lead agency to increase the amount of pints per acre(6/ac). By the way yesterday we got the lab reports indicating high levels of both imazapyr and glyphosate(the cocktail in use) on our oysterbeds. This spraying in addition to being supported by state agencies, The Nature Conservancy, Audubon society, the state legislators as well as our two senators, and Reps. Baird and Dicks is supported by the Commercial Oystermen.
Fritzi Cohen of the Moby Dick Hotel and Oysterfarm. Our oysters are as organic as they can be in Willapa Bay.

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