Pesticides A Toxic Time Bomb in Our Midst

problems, but not pests or pesticides. While pesticides are clearly not top concerns for parents, this research shows they do be ...

chemical was applied in classrooms in an effort to control head lice. The parent’s complaint also noted that she had seen school ...

some testing of sites where the chemical had been used, but no residues were found. No injury, illness, or exposure to the pesti ...

August 1994, Pierre Part, Louisiana.In the week before school opened for the fall, a school custodian sprayed the schoolyard aro ...

out, as the children ate different things. One alert parent noted that her son’s flu-like symptoms (headaches, stomachaches, and ...

arrived to pick up her daughter that afternoon, she was horrified to smell the chemi- cal odor, and appalled to realize that she ...

and eye and respiratory irritation immediately following their return to school on Monday morning. Some children developed rashe ...

space were analyzed only for petroleum distillates, not for the active ingredients of the pesticide products used. The inspector ...

April 28, 1987, Grand Island, New York.The local fire department was called in to evacuate Kaegebein Elementary School when stro ...

June 1997, Fontana, California.Janine Matelko’s daughter Chrissy Garavito, age fifteen, died on June 30, 1997, allegedly due to ...

Arsenic can still seep out of wood, ending up on palms and fingers. This exposure is a concern for young people. Even after the ...

A bill introduced in the California assembly would have banned the use of the most highly toxic pesticides in schools, including ...

Danielson, Connecticut A student and his family requested that his school stop using harmful pesticides on the high school’s foo ...

leave in their wake a trail of destitution and hunger, conveying to an undernourished population the major diseases, scourges of ...

emergency use only. The purpose of responsible pest control is to prevent emergencies, if your school has implemented IPM, promo ...

headed the pesticide industry’s first committee on endocrine disruption before she left Sandoz at the end of 1996. Here are her ...

Ralph Engel, president of the Chemical Specialties Manufacturers Association, said parents should be notified about school pesti ...

‘‘We are sabotaging our children’s success in school with our ignorance, our inertia, and our silence. Until school-based enviro ...

D. I. Volberg, M. H. Surgan, S. Jaffe, D. Hamer, and J. A. Sevinsky,Pesticides in Schools: Reducing the Risks(New York, NY: New ...

Kagan Owens and Jay Feldman,The Schooling of State Pesticide Laws—2002 Update(Washington, D.C.: Beyond Pesticides/National Coal ...