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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Herbicide drift on food crops
  • Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:09:57 -0400


On Jul 29, 2009, at 3:52 PM, akmanty wrote:

The produce was Vessel. Peas, radish, grapes especially showed
signs. Rest of garden is a "guess" at best, though it was
windy. Product specialist says if any chance of spray drift, don't
eat, including potatoes, carrots, etc. down in the ground; also wait
30 days before replanting; not too likely in our climate. Anyone
have similar experience or opinions re: eating the food; long term
effects? Thank you
Karen, WI zone 5

Did you ask for this stuff to be used on your property? If not, the applicator was not behaving in accordance with their license. I have no experience with the particular chemical; but found the lable info searching online. This appears to be a danger-label (highest level of hazard on labels: levels are caution, warning, and danger) restricted use herbicide not intended for use on anything for consumption, and not supposed to be sold to or used by anyone not licensed to do so.

I would call both EPA (or WI's version of NY DEC) and/or the applying company and notify them of the problem; at least, unless you asked to have adjacent lawn treated with this, in which case I'd probably just call the applying company.

Stay out of the area for 48 hours, unless wearing protective gear (see label instructions, link below).

If you have pets, consult with your veterinarian, especially if they were in the area during the drift or within the 48 hours.

If the specialist says don't eat the stuff, I wouldn't eat the stuff; at least not without a lot more research.

Despite the 48 hour re-entry and the danger label, it does appear to be legal to use Vessel on residential lawns, as long as it's applied by professionals. I'd a lot rather have weeds, myself.

Product information here: (this is the HTML version according to Google; if you google "Vessel herbicide" the PDF version should pop up in the first few results).

http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache%3AFkFTDquHp3kJ%3Awww.prokoz.net%2Fsite_files%2Fproducts%2Ffile%2FVessel_Label.pdf+Vessel+3-Way+Herbicide&hl=en&gl=us



--Rivka
Finger Lakes NY; zone 5 mostly



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