Block the Registration of Methyl Iodide!
September, 16 2009
California is currently considering registering methyl iodide—a cancer-causing, highly toxic chemical—for use in agriculture.
We need to prevent the registration of methyl iodide before it can endanger farmworkers and rural communities!
Methyl iodide would be one of the most dangerous pesticides in use. Farmworkers and rural communities would be at serious risk from methyl iodide exposure.
- Methyl iodide is used by scientists to induce cancer in laboratory animals. It causes thyroid toxicity, permanent neurological damage, and could be especially damaging to fetuses, pregnant women, the elderly, and the developing brains of children. Methyl iodide also causes fetal deaths in experimental animals.
- Methyl iodide would be used as a fumigant. Applied as gases, fumigant pesticides frequently drift away from their targets, poison communities and cause long-term health problems.
- 54 scientists, most members of the National Academy of Sciences and including five Nobel laureates, urged former US EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson not to register methyl iodide as a soil fumigant because of the high risks it poses to human health and the environment.
Take Action Now!
Date: Friday, September 25th
Location: The Pagoda Building, Third Floor
429 J St, Sacramento
Time: 8:30am – 3pm
English-Spanish interpretation available.
For more information and to get involved:
Call Californians for Pesticide Reform at 888-288-4880 or visit www.PesticideReform.org or www.panna.org/fumigants/mei
Download a Fact Sheet on Methyl Iodide
Download a Bilingual (Spanish/English) Flyer on the hearing with brief talking points
To Sign -on to the Letter , View November 2009 MEL SIGN-ON LETTER
To View/Download the December 14th Flyer Dec 14th Flyer
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