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Dear subscribers, Best wishes, good health and peace for the world Ingrid Scherrmann SAFER WORLD is a private independent international internet-network for a safer environment. =============================================== ACTIVE Which State Will Be Next to Go Smokefree? A number of states, including NY, CT, NJ, MA, NH, VT, ME, MD, IN, MI, NE, CO, and WA have introduced or are expected to introduce smokefree workplace legislation this session. Massachusetts is most likely to be the next smokefree state as more than 70 cities and towns in Massachusetts have already gone smokefree. The states of Vermont, New York, and Washington are also likely to succeed. California passed smokefree workplace legislation eight years ago. Delaware passed smokefree workplace legislation last year. New York City and Boston also passed smokefree workplace legislation last year. Although we think of the U.S. as the leader in smokefree workplace legislation, Canada and Australia are actually much further along. In addition, Ireland has announced country-wide smokefree workplace legislation to go into effect on January 1. Sweden is considering similar action. If you would like to send a letter to your state legislature about smokefree workplace legislation, go to www.smokefree.org and choose your state. Joseph W. Cherner, President SmokeFree Educational Services, Inc. http://www.smokefree.org =============================================== CHEMICALS - ARSENIC Report cites cancer risk of treated-wood playsets February 11, 2003 By Peter Kaplan, Reuters . WASHINGTON -- Playing on arsenic-treated wooden playground equipment can slightly increase children's risk of getting lung or bladder cancer later in life, according to a staff report released recently by U.S. safety regulators. http://www.enn.com/news/2003-02-11/s_2588.asp --- February 7, 2003: A Statement from Chairman Hal Stratton Public Briefing on CCA Pressure-Treated Wood Playground Equipment Scheduled I am announcing that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) today scheduled a Commission Briefing for March 12, 2003 to consider the petition to ban the use of chromated copper arsenate (CCA) pressure-treated wood in playground equipment. The staff will brief the Commissioners on the materials submitted in its briefing package... http://www.cpsc.gov/library/foia/foia03/brief/briefing.html =============================================== CHEMICALS - FRAGRANCES Scherrmann: When you want to have more articles about toxic effects of chemicals in fragrances, feel free to ask me. ---- Fragrances: a no-non-scents approach http://www.whsc.on.ca Published by the Workers Health and Safety, Internet: www.whsc.on.ca Increasingly, workers are becoming sensitized to chemicals in the environment. For many workers, attending conferences and being exposed to perfumes can pose a serious health risk. In the interest of the health and safety of the sisters and brothers whose health may suffer from these exposures, we ask that conference participants refrain from the use of scented products such as perfume and aftershave while in attendance at the conference. Ontario Federation of Labour- Allergy Alert. Scent-free workplace policy By taking necessary precautions now to protect workers from exposure to fragrances the employer can prevent development of sensitizations in future. The most effective strategy is to practice the precautionary principle and declare the workplace a scent/ fragrance-free environment. The joint health and safety committee should recommend the drafting of a scent-free workplace policy. --- ''The experimental data reported here lead to the conclusion that musk xylene, as well as musk tibetene, have carcinogenic activity.'' http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12529978&dopt=Abstract 1: Anticancer Res 2002 Sep-Oct;22(5):2657-62 Related Articles, Links Evaluation of carcinogenic potential of two nitro-musk derivatives, musk xylene and musk tibetene in a host-mediated in vivo/in vitro assay system. Apostolidis S, Chandra T, Demirhan I, Cinatl J, Doerr HW, Chandra A., Department of Molecular Biology (ZBC), Frankfurt University Medical School, 60590 Frankfurt, Germany. =============================================== CHEMICALS - FRAGRANCES -TURPENTINE Turpentine oil with all its constituents can be found from the list of EU's fragrance chemicals - a LONG list. http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/sccp/outcome_en.html Opinion concerning the 1st update of the inventory of ingredients employed in cosmetic products section II : perfume and aromatic raw materials (adopted by the SCCNFP during the plenary session of 24 October 2000)(934KB) http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/sccp/out131_en.pdf Several studies state that turpentine and constituents may act as sensitizers and irritants, also to the eyes and the respiratory system! =============================================== CHEMICALS - PESTICIDES From P A N U P S, Pesticide Action Network Updates Service, February 14, 2003 New Reports Find Pesticides in People Dozens of pesticides and other chemicals are in the blood and urine of people in the United States, according to two reports released in late January. Together, the two studies offer startling new evidence of the chemical body burden carried by the U.S. population. ... Reducing or eliminating pesticide use in the home and supporting organic agriculture are two concrete ways consumers can respond to the body burden news. Not surprisingly, new evidence shows that children who eat more organic food have fewer chemicals in their bodies. (See PANUPS, January 31, 2003, http://www.panna.org/resources/panups/panup_20030131.dv.html.) Supporting organic production will send a powerful message to farmers and will lead to falling demand for agricultural pesticides. CDC will be checking levels of these and additional chemicals every two years, and will make the full data set for both the first and second National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals available in mid-March. PANNA plans to do further analysis on the pesticide body burden findings at that time. For more information: CDC's Second National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals: http://www.cdc.gov/exposurereport/ PANNA's Pesticide Backgrounder and additional body burden resources: http://www.panna.org/campaigns/docsPops/docsPops_030130.dv.html =============================================== DESEASE - MCS - MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY Multicenter Study on MCS: (examinations for the causes of the MCS-syndrome (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity) or IEI (Idiopathic Environmental Intolerances) under special consideration of the contribution of environmental chemicals Report Date 26.11.2002 Author(s), Family Name(s), First Name(s) Eis, Dieter; Beckel, Tilman; Birkner, Norbert; Renner, Bertold and the members of the project group (p. 5) Publication Date: in the internet at 03. 03.2003 under http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/uba-info-daten/index.htm UFOPLAN – Nr. 298 62 274 Performing Organisation (Name, Adress): Robert Koch-Institut Seestr. 10 D-13353 Berlin No. of Pages: 343 No. of References: 141 No. of Tables, Diagrams: 128 Funding Agency (Name, Adress): Umweltbundesamt (Federal Environmental Agency), Postfach 33 00 22, D-14191 Berlin No. of Figures: 61 AbstractWith the first multicentre MCS study in Germany a research network could be established: Six environmental medicine outpatient clinics took part in the project, five of which were linked to university clinics (Aix-la-Chapelle, Berlin, Freiburg, Giessen, Munich) and one located at a specialised hospital in Bredstedt. The department of environmental medicine at the Robert Koch-Institut (RKI) in Berlin served as the study-centre. The main focus of the study consisted of a precise description and detailed analysis of the "Multiple Chemical Sensitivity" (MCS). The causes, triggers and risk factors of MCS were to be studied. The project is based primarily on a cross-sectional design. The division of the outpatients into MCS- and non-MCS-groups also corresponds to a case-control situation with outpatient clinic based cases and controls. The specially designed documentation instruments were developed and tested in 1999. 234 (80%) of the approximately 300 patients examined at the six centres in the year 2000 with completed examination instruments could be included in the study. 19 patients with suspected MCS and a matched control group underwent extensive olfactometric examinations in a separate project. Methods and results of basic data-analysis are presented in this report. An addendum contains forms and questionnaires as well as the complete report on the olfactometric examinations. Keywords : MCS, IEI, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Multicenter Study, Environmental Outpatient Unit, Clinical Examination, Questionnaires, Olfactometry, CIDI, Pollutants, Illnesses, Psychometric Analysis, BSKE SF-36, SCL-90-R, MCS-Questionnaire, B-L, WI, LZI, IRES, FKV-LIS, IPQ, SAQ, FGB/SUB, SOZU´K-22, FPI-R, SWOP K-9, Allergies, Somatoform Disorders. Report Cover sheet 06/2000 --- Scherrmann, comment: I was studying the background of this study, I made protests since the planning of this study. The story of this study is grotesque in many points. In contrast to other German activists and environmental-physicains I am not surprised about the result. Nevertheless I am very angry about the result. You can download the whole study under http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/uba-info-daten/index.htm OR: you can send me an email and I will sent you the summary in English, as a word -document (10 sites) or in the body of the email. When you can read in German I can send you the study ( 400 sites) in different files as an attachment. =============================================== ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS Possible Health Effects of Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) http://europa.eu.int/comm/health/ph/programmes/pollution/ph_fields_index.html Possible Health Effects of Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) (last updated February 20, 2003) Conference on Application of the Precautionary Principle to Electromagnetic Fields (EMF), Luxembourg, 24-26 February 2003(11KB) Draft agenda for 24th February(7KB) Speakers for 24th February(14KB) Draft agenda for 25th-26th February(9KB) Provisional working group list(43KB) Practical information Information circular to the participants(28KB) Accomodation and meeting place in Luxembourg(118KB) Registration form(20KB) Conference on Community Regulatory Aspects of Health Protection in the field of Non-ionising Radiation, 30 November 2001 Modern society is dependent on the use of electricity. This results in an accumulating exposure to electric, magnetic and electromagnetic fields (EMFs). The rapid development of the telecommunications industry is requiring the placement of new transmitters masts for use as radiotelephone base stations, which end up being sited close to houses, business premises and schools and emit low level non-ionising radiation on a permanent basis. In addition to this 'passive environmental exposure' emissions are absorbed from handsets by the head when in use. Other sources of extremely low level exposure to electromagnetic fields are overhead power lines (50 Hz) and anti-theft devices or video display units (300 Hz - 10 MHz). At EU level, a Council Recommendation (+/-180KB) to limit the exposure of the general public to electromagnetic fields (0 Hz - 300 GHz) was adopted in July 1999, based on the guidelines of the International Commission on Non Ionizing Radiation Protection as endorsed by theScientific Steering Committee advising the European Commission on multi-disciplinary scientific issues. The Recommendation sets out a system of basic restrictions and reference levels for overall public exposure. It is the task of the Member States to ensure that adequate health protection measures are taken. At Community level the development of binding European standards for emissions from radio telecommunications and other low voltage devices should contribute to ensuring that such equipment respects the recommended limits. When reference levels are exceeded, it is recommended that national authorities carry out an assessment of the exposure situation and take appropriate follow-up actions, such as informing the public exposed, changes in the installation or design of the source of radiation or in the way it is operated. Member States are further requested to report on national guidelines and measures taken to the Commission. These legislative measures are now published in an implementation report (+/-280KB) that includes elements of information for some of the candidate countries. The Commission is closely monitoring new developments in scientific research and international regulatory action in the field of EMF. There is for the moment a lack of data concerning long-term effects of low exposure; large-scale epidemiological studies are presently being conducted, of which the first results are expected 2004. In response to growing concerns amongst the general public, specifically about EMF exposure from mobile phones and transmitter masts, and the rapid increase in the application of new technologies using radio-frequencies, the Commission asked in January 2001 the competent scientific committee toupdate the existing scientific advice on health risks associated with the exposure to electromagnetic fields in the light of new evidence on exposure and research on health effects. The Committee on Toxicology, Eco-toxicology and the Environment has adopted this opinion(56KB) on October 30, 2001. =============================================== EU - CHEMICALS POLICY Negative economic consequences of EU Chemicals Policy are overrated Federal Environmental Agency: Safe chemicals abate human health and economic risks "Assessment and authorisation of chemicals more closely orientated towards environmental and health protection, such as is envisioned by the European Union, decreases the human health and economic risks associated with the use of chemicals." This is the conclusion drawn by the President of the Federal Environmental Agency (FEA), Prof. Dr. Andreas Troge, after a professional discussion whose minutes are now available online at http://www.umweltbundesamt.de, under the "Presse – Hintergrundpapiere" heading (German). "The economic advantages of the new Chemicals Policy can not be denied", Troge added. More transparency about the hazards of chemicals in the product chain would lead to the use of safer chemicals, a lessening of the economic risks taken by chemicals users, and restriction of the high costs incurred from chemicals-related occupational illnesses. At the beginning of February 2003, the FEA invited representatives from leading economic and environmental research institutes to a professional discussion on basic methodical issues regarding the forecasting of possible economic consequences of the new EU Chemicals Policy. In essence, the burden to be borne by industry will be far lighter than feared by the Federation of German Industries (BDI). Background: With its so-called White Paper, the European Union (EU) plans to make fundamental changes in the Community’s chemicals policy so as to ensure a higher level of protection for human health and the environment. In a step-by-step plan, data on all substances must be submitted and risk assessments made by industry itself. Commercial users of chemicals are also to be held responsible for their safe handling. Particularly hazardous substances will be subject to an obligatory authorisation procedure. This legislation has economic implications for manufacturers, importers, and chemicals users. The EU Commission has had certain aspects of this analysed in a number of studies. In Germany, the business consultancy Arthur D. Little (ADL) was commissioned by BDI to examine the possible economic consequences of three scenarios. They determined that there would a considerable decline in gross value added and-- depending on scenario- a rise in unemployment involving up to 2.35 million jobs. According to statements made by experts participating at the FEA talks, the studies provide some important indications of the relative significance of various parameters of the envisioned EU Chemicals Policy. They allow for drawing conclusions on how its design can be improved and how hardships for certain economic sectors can be avoided. However, the forecast made in the ADL study about national economic gross value added and job losses is methodically unsound and therefore not applicable. In the talk headed by the Munich Institute for Economic Research (Ifo), it was determined that the ADL study ignored the positive impact of the new Chemicals Policy and that the analysis is based on a statistical model that does not into account the dynamics and innovative drive of the economy. Moreover, it is founded on inconclusive industry data. Whilst the study contains many important findings, for example on cost factors in the textiles industry which uses a great number of chemicals, it is neither technically nor methodically sound in its analysis of national economic impact. In contrast to the BDI, the FEA believes many aspects of the new EU Chemicals Policy could exert a positive economic impact. Innovative drive will be boosted by improvements in knowledge about existing substances, which have hardly been investigated as yet, as well as by the help lent to research and development. Due to the improved flow of information between chemicals manufacturers and industrial users, new solutions for sustainable chemicals use will be generated, which also leads to international competitive advantages. Maintenance of industrial health and safety standards will be easier, liability risk will be lowered, and consumer and industry confidence in the chemicals industry’s products will be boosted. A summary of the results of the professional discussion is available online at http://www.umweltbundesamt.de, "Presse-Hintergrundpapiere" heading (German). Berlin, 26 February 2003 --- http://www.eeb.org/press/press_release__a_new_chemicals_policy_29_01_03.htm A new chemicals policy in Europe, new opportunities for industry - WWF and EEB respond to industry claims WWF and EEB today released a new discussion paper [1] that challenges the claims made by the chemical industry and others that a new, precautionary, chemicals policy for Europe will damage industry. The new paper, published as the Commission finalises its draft legislation, argues that the new regulations should promote innovation, and will generate many environmental and health benefits. The chemicals policy reform, triggered by increasing concerns over the safety of chemicals, and the inability of the existing system to deal with these concerns, has been underway since 1998. A White Paper was published in February 2001, and Environmental NGOs have already expressed their concern at the slow progress in developing the new system [2]. Over the last year it has been claimed in business impact studies, and in statements by industry and certain governments (notably the USA) that the new chemicals legislation will severally damage the chemical industry and industries that use chemicals. This discussion paper responds to these concerns and argues, amongst other things, that: many of the studies and statements exaggerate or misunderstand the new policy. One example of this is a US Government 'non paper', based on a US chemical industry study, which assumes that the EU is likely to ban the import of computers made in the US. This is clearly not the case. This same US paper quotes an outdated and superseded UK study of testing costs. the studies tend to ignore the fact that innovation will create safer chemicals and products. For example, if a manufacturer sells a chair which contains a chemical that is to be phased out, it will be up to that manufacturer - or another - to provide a chair which does not contain this chemical. The public will carry on buying chairs at the same rate, so the input of money into the retailing and manufacturing supply chain will remain constant. This key factor is ignored in many business impact studies. the studies invariably ignore the health and environmental benefits of the reform. Such benefits are hard to price - what is the price of an uncontaminated foetus? - but are important, since the primary reason for the reform is to improve the protection of health and the environment. Stefan Scheuer (EEB), a co-author of the study, said today: "Industry has been scaremongering about this reform in an attempt to delay and water it down. As with any reform there will be winners and losers, but Europe's overall economy will benefit. The new system will reward innovative, greener and more sustainable companies, creating new business opportunities and ending irresponsible risks to our health." Dr Michael Warhurst (WWF), another co-author, added: "This reform must lead to a phase out of chemicals that accumulate in our bodies and in the wider environment, as well as chemicals that disrupt hormone systems. Anything less will be a failure by the EU to properly protect our health and future. Industry should realise that such reforms are necessary and will generate new markets for greener, safer, products." For further information: Stefan Scheuer, EU Chemicals Coordinator, European Environmental Bureau, Tel: +32 2 289 1304, Stefan.scheuer@eeb.org Dr A. Michael Warhurst, EU Toxics Policy, WWF European Policy Office, Tel: +32 2 740 0926, mwarhurst@wwfepo.org Angelina Hermanns, Press Officer, WWF European Policy Office, Tel: +32 2 740 0925, ahermanns@wwfepo.org Notes [1] "A new chemicals policy in Europe - new opportunities for industry", WWF & EEB, January 2003. This report (30 pages, with a 2 page executive summary) will be available from 12.00am 29/1/03 on both the WWF and EEB web sites: http://www.panda.org/downloads/europe/wwfeebreachnewopforindustry.pdf http://www.eeb.org/activities/chemicals/Newchemicalspolicy-industry-29-01-03.pdf Further briefings and information on the new EU chemicals policy are also available on these web sites: http://www.panda.org/epo click on 'toxics' on the right http://www.eeb.org/activities/chemicals/main.htm [2] "NGOs fear delay is weakening chemicals legislation - urgent letter sent to Prodi", Press Release, EEB, WWF, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, BEUC, 29th October 2002 http://www.eeb.org/press/press_release_chemicals_29_10_02.htm =============================================== FOOD- GM From
Environmental and consumer groups across the UK are
furious that GM oilseed rape crops grown across the UK within the "farm scale
evaluations " programme have contained highly controversial terminator genes. Such
genes create male sterility in the plants and make it impossible to save seed for future
use. Farmers have protested strongly about this technology, and understood that the
biotechnology multinationals had agreed to phase it out. Biologists are also very
concerned, because the insertion of terminator genes into plants makes them behave in very
erratic and unpredictable ways. The use of this technology in the FSE oilseed rape trials
-- about 150 in all -- has been kept secret by Bayer CropScience (the seed owners) and
DEFRA. However, Dr Mae-wan Ho and Dr Joe Cummins, two scientists working for the Institute
for Science in Society, have undertaken painstaking research which has revealed how the GM
oilseed rape plants have been engineered. They are extremely worried by what they have
found, since some of the genetic components of the GM plants could wreak havoc when they
spread to non-GM varieties and related weeds. The "doomsday scenario" is that
sterility could spread across populations of brassicas (like broccoli, mustard and
cauliflower) and also of wild relatives, and ultimately lead to their extermination. GM Free Cymru has now asked for an urgent Parliamentary
Question to be addressed to the Secretary of State for the Environment on this issue.
Spokesman Dr Brian John said: "NGOs across the country feel that we have been
betrayed on this issue. There has been total secrecy about the use of these terminator
genes in the GM oilseed rape trials. We knew that "off the record" trials had
been under way within the FSE programme, for seed planting densities have been going up
year on year, and we have never had a satisfactory explanation for this. Then on 30
January Margaret Beckett gave a hint in Parliament that there was something different
about the GM oilseed rape varieties being used in Britain as compared with varieties
planted in Canada and the USA. Now we know what has been going on. There has been deceit
and evasion at every turn, and the Farm-scale Evaluations of GM crops are revealed as
having very sinister side-effects." For the full I-SIS Report click on this link: http://www.i-sis.org.uk/CEDF.php
Coalition
against BAYER-dangers The Coalition against BAYER-dangers has been monitoring the BAYER Corporation for more than 20 years. Anyone who has information on possibly illicit activities of BAYER - please let us know. =============================================== HOUSING Susan Molloy: Architectural Features for Multi-Family Housing to Better Accomodate residents with Chemical and Electrical Sensitivities, http://users.lmi.net/wilwirks/ehnlinx/archism.htm Ecology House has a manager opening... http://users.lmi.net/wilwirks/ehnlinx/ecohsmgr.htm =============================================== LAW - GERMANY - FREEDOM OF INFORMATION From Walter Keim: Who is responsible
for the lack of freedom of information: http://home.online.no/~wkeim/I_accuse.htm =============================================== LAWSUIT - PERU From
1999: Twenty-four Children Poisoned and Killed by Bayer Pesticide 2003: Bayer Moves to Block Families’ Legal Action Lima, Peru – Three years after twenty-four children in the Andean village of Tauccamarca were poisoned and killed when they drank a powdered milk substitute that had been contaminated by an organophosphate pesticide sold by Bayer, the agrochemical giant moved to have the families’ lawsuit dismissed on sham procedural grounds. The families filed a legal action in 2001 against Bayer, the principle Peruvian importer and distributor of the pesticide methyl parathion, and the Ministry of Agriculture. The suit seeks justice for the children that perished, medical monitoring for the children that were poisoned and survived, and regulatory reforms to prevent future tragedies. Bayer’s procedural claims are a shameful attempt to prevent the first case to question whether or not highly toxic pesticides can be sold and used safely in Peru from ever being heard by the court. They are also incorrect. At a hearing in Lima in January, half a dozen attorneys for Bayer and the Ministry asserted that the families’ case should be dismissed because the defendants were notified several days past the two-year statute of limitations, and because the families’ legal documents are “confusing,” since they reference two Bayer organophosphate pesticides, methyl parathion and ethyl parathion. A straight-forward reading of Peruvian legislation shows that Bayer’s claims are wrong. Peru’s Civil Code clearly states that the two-year statute of limitations is suspended if it is “impossible” for the plaintiff to bring the action. When the children were poisoned on October 22, 1999, the dictatorial Fujimori government threatened the villagers telling them not to talk to environmental organizations or bring legal actions. The government also refused to respond to requests for information seeking the results of laboratory analyses conducted on the milk and the deceased children. Only in August 2001, after Fujimori fled the country and a new government was installed, did the families receive a response from the government allowing them to proceed with legal action. Bayer’s charge that the families’ action is “confusing,” because it references both methyl parathion and ethyl parathion, two distinct pesticides that it sold in Peru, is equally cynical. Reports from different Peruvian government agencies were themselves contradictory. Police and press reports stated that a “white powdered” organophosphate pesticide – which describes methyl parathion – had been mixed into the school’s powdered milk. Then-president Fujimori asserted that it was ethyl parathion, a liquid pesticide, that contaminated the milk. Bayer has registered both ethyl and methyl parathion for sale in Peru. The families’ legal action responsibly argued both possibilities, although witness reports at the time of the poisonings indicated that the lethal pesticide was the white powdered methyl parathion. Bayer Peru, a wholly owned subsidiary of the German company, widely
promoted its methyl parathion formulation known as “Folidol” throughout Peru, targeting its marketing on use in Andean crops cultivated primarily
by small farmers, the great majority of whom speak Quechua only and are illiterate. Bayer packaged Folidol,
a white powder that resembles powdered milk and has no strong chemical odor, in small
plastic bags, labeled in Spanish and displaying a picture of vegetables. The World Health Organization classifies methyl
parathion as an extremely hazardous pesticide. The Tauccamarca families believe that Bayer should have taken steps to prevent the foreseeable misuse of this extremely toxic product given the well known socioeconomic conditions in the Peruvian countryside that make so-called “safe use” virtually impossible. Because Bayer took no reasonable steps to warn or protect users – for illiterate users the labeling and packaging provide no indication of the danger of the product – it didn’t exercise reasonable care to prevent the foreseeable misuse of this deadly pesticide. A Peruvian Congressional Subcommittee concluded in 2002 that there is significant evidence of administrative and criminal responsibility on the part of Ministry of Agriculture, and of criminal responsibility on the part of the agrochemical company Bayer. The report recommends that the government and Bayer indemnify the families of the dead children. It also names the Ministry of Agriculture for failure to enforce pesticide regulations. By the Ministry’s own admission, uncontrolled sales of "restricted use" pesticides including methyl parathion are common throughout Peru. A spokesperson for the families, Victoriano Huarayo, emphasized that they hoped their legal action would send a message to the pesticide companies so that they would stop selling these deadly products in the Peru. To date the surviving children have received no medical monitoring from either Bayer or the Peruvian government. The families have received no assistance, compensation, or even an apology from the company or the government.Judge Dina Dávila Marín will decide whether or not to let the case proceed in the next few weeks. The families are asking that letters of support for their right to face Bayer in court be sent to Señor Luis Solari, President of the Counsel of Ministers, and to the First Lady of Peru, Eliane Karp, wife of President Toledo.Luis Solari, President of the Council of Ministers, E-mail: lsolari@pcm.gob.pe , Fax: 511-444-9168 , First Lady of Peru, Eliane Karp, Fax. 511-3114720,
For more
information please contact the Pesticide Action Network-Latin America: Erika Rosenthal; telephone (1) (510) 550-6752; erosenthal@earthjustice.org Luis Gomero; telefax (511) 337-5170 or 425-7955; raaaper@terra.com.pe Coalition against BAYER-dangers www.CBGnetwork.org CBGnetwork@aol.com Fax: (+49) 211 333 940 Tel: (+49) 211 333 911 The Coalition against BAYER-dangers has been monitoring the BAYER Corporation for more than 20 years. Anyone who has information on possibly illicit activities of BAYER - please let us know. =============================================== INDUSTRY From CBGnetwork lex Berenson, NY TIMES, Feb 22nd 2003: Bayer Knew of Dangers of Its Cholesterol Drug- Papers Indicate That Bayer Knew of Dangers of Its Cholesterol Drug Newly disclosed company documents indicate that some senior executives at Bayer were aware that their anticholesterol By MElody Petersen and drug had serious problems long before the company pulled it from the market. ...ycol from the market Scherrmann: When you are interested, I can send you the article in a private email. =============================================== POLITIC Information about Anti-war articles: t r u t h o u t - Newsletter. https://www.truthout.org/ =============================================== VACCINATION SMALL-Pox -vaccination. Scherrmann: I have a question: In Germany there are many activities of the health agencies about small-pox-vaccination. We hope that never there will be cases of small-pox. I am very interested to know more about governmental activities in other countries at this field, especially: 1) Publications, URLs about side-effects of small-pox-vaccination from a) governmental health-agencies b) science, ngos, ... 2) URLs of laws: paragraphes about: how the law at this field a) can force to vaccinate everybody, also ill persons? b) can reduce basic human rights? =============================================== end of newsletter/English/14// |
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