Pesticides A Toxic Time Bomb in Our Midst

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46.List of Chemicals Evaluated for Carcinogenic Potential(Washington, D.C.: Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency, December 31, 1994).


  1. ‘‘Chardon High Evacuates Classes to Escape Fumes,’’ The Cleveland Plain
    Dealer, June 10, 1997.

  2. ‘‘Ant Spray Use Forces Fort River Class to Move,’’Daily Hampshire Gazette
    (Amherst, MA), May 21, 1997.

  3. ‘‘Second Pierre Part School Closed after Pesticide Contamination,’’The Advo-
    cate(Baton Rouge, LA), August 30, 1994.

  4. Consent Order # R 9-4025-93-09 (Albany, NY: Department of Environmental
    Conservation, n.d.).

  5. ‘‘Law Targets School Pesticide Use,’’The Morning Call(Allentown, PA), Janu-
    ary 26, 1994.

  6. Kathy Schultz, personal communication, December 1999.

  7. Ray Saporito, ‘‘ A Toxic Nightmare,’’American School Board Journal, Septem-
    ber 1993.

  8. ‘‘Woodbury Students Exposed to Pesticide,’’St. Paul Pioneer Press, December
    8, 1992.

  9. ‘‘School Weighs Risk of Pesticide,’’The New York Times, January 10, 1993.

  10. ‘‘Pupils Moved Pending Tests for Pesticides,’’The Record(Hackensack, NJ),
    January 29, 1992.

  11. ‘‘Insecticide Fumes Sicken Forty-Two at School,’’The Miami Herald, May 8,



  12. ‘‘Kanawha School Board to Shell Out $600,000 to Settle Suit Over Pesticides,’’
    The Charleston Gazette(Charleston, WV), June 24, 1995.

  13. ‘‘School District Broke Pesticide Regulations,’’ Greenville News(Greenville,
    SC), May 12, 1990.

  14. John Wainwright, personal communication, New York Department of Envi-
    ronmental Conservation, January 14, 2000.

  15. ‘‘Flea Treatment Fumes Cause Early Dismissal at Waianae,’’The Honolulu Ad-
    vertiser, October 3, 1986.

  16. Consent Order # R 9-2040-87-03 (Albany, NY: New York Department of
    Environmental Conservation).

  17. P. Baker and D. Selvey, ‘‘Malathion-Induced Epidemic Hysteria in an Elemen-
    tary School,’’Veterinary and Human Toxicology34 (2) (April 1992): 156–160.

  18. Troy Anderson, ‘‘The Sick School Syndrome,’’The Daily Bulletin(Ontario,
    CA), June 1997.
    65.Intentional Poisons in Our Schools—Pesticides Pollute Classrooms and School
    Grounds(Eugene, OR: Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides, n.d.).

  19. ‘‘Arsenic in Wood = Poison in the Playground,’’Generation Green, n.d.

  20. L. Y. Wang, Y. Zhong and L. Wheeler, ‘‘Direct and Indirect Costs of Asthma
    in School-Age Children,’’Prevention of Chronic Disease(January 2005).

  21. Cheng Shim and M. Henry Williams Jr., ‘‘Effects of Odors on Asthma,’’The
    American Journal of Medicine80 (January 1986): 18–22.


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