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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Home-grown veg ruined by toxic fertiliser
  • Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:51:06 -0600


Good work. I was looking for something about that and ran out of time.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 6/29/2008 at 10:47 PM Liz wrote:

>At 03:43 PM 6/29/2008, you wrote:
>
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>>Home-grown veg ruined by toxic fertiliser
>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/29/food.agriculture?gusrc=rss&feed=environment
>
>The New York state's Bureau of Pesticides Management refused to
>approve the two preparations of this chemical, Milestone and
>ForeFront (the one used in the UK) until Dow provided them with
>additional information, because they were not able to confirm Dow's
>findings about the half-life of the chemical in aerobic systems.
>Here's a portion of their report
>(http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/herb-growthreg/24-d-butylate/aminopyralid/aminopyr_wth_0207.pdf):
>
>While the response submitted by Dow AgroSciences, LLC, was
>informative, the Department could not ignore the inadequacy of the
>original aerobic metabolism study. Therefore the Department could not
>ensure that the labeled use of aminopyralid would not negatively
>impact groundwater resources in sensitive areas of New York State.
>As a result, Dow withdrew its application for approval in New York
>(rather than provide adequate testing). That suggests to me that they
>knew there was a problem with aerobic metabolism. I wonder how many
>other states just rubber-stamped Dow's application based on the test
>results it provided, and didn't do a good job of testing it
>themselves. Most of them, probably.
>
>Liz in SW VA
>http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com
>






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