Comments on: Study Links Prenatal Exposure to Pyrethroid Insecticides and Learning Problems http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=4912 News on pesticide science, policy and activism Wed, 15 May 2013 15:03:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Deb Bechtel http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=4912#comment-102981 Deb Bechtel Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:43:19 +0000 http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=4912#comment-102981 Another exposure route parents need to be alert for is automatic pesticide dispensers! In the tourist town of Morro Bay, CA, I UNKNOWINGLY parked my 2 week old grandson’s pram under a dispenser outside a toy shop at a small indoor mall while my daughter went in. A month later the shop clerk (friend of daughters) asked me about pesticides because she was ill and thought it was caused by the pesticide dispenser. I WAS FURIOUS! Permethrin released at 15 minute intervals because the mall owner is too cheap to install fans to keep flies out!? The owner said “It’s only Pyrethrins….like chrysanthemums.” That’s the lie the salesman told him. It was Permethrin. And over the toy shop door where children are exposed!

LOOK UP on walls near doorways, in shops and in public areas! They are often plastic and the size of a thermos bottle. They are mounted outside our normal range of vision. WARNINGS should be posted!

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