Comments on: Groups Petition EPA to Require Buffer Zones Around Pesticide Sprayed Farms http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=2564 News on pesticide science, policy and activism Thu, 16 May 2013 16:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Liz Minnaar http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=2564#comment-87526 Liz Minnaar Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:38:17 +0000 http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=2564#comment-87526 I am a citizen from South Africa and living in an agricultural area. My husband is a medical practitioner. We are suffering from ill health due to pesticide drift. It is time that there must be a change in regulations worlwide to protect innocent and poor people. EPA has to be pushed for change in regulations!

]]> By: mary http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=2564#comment-85426 mary Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:00:04 +0000 http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=2564#comment-85426 The brief needs to address synergy of the chemicals, for example, the studies that show bifenthrin when used in conjunction with say, diquat, acts in a similar manner
to the organochlorides/organophosphates in causing neurological damage.
Just one example, I know there are more.
The brief needs to address how FIRFA and EPA fall short in not factoring in synergy which is a different animal than cumulative effects.

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