Pesticides A Toxic Time Bomb in Our Midst

California Department of Pesticide

Regulation (CDPR): airborne

contamination, 195–96; Fresco

County incident, 34–35; Pesticide

Illness Surveillance Program, 169–70;

regulations for schools, 127–28;

reporting on organic foods, 79; Top

Ten Pesticide Blunders at Home,

168–69

California Legal Rural Assistance

Foundation (CLRAF), 195

California Pesticide Illness Surveillance

Program, 39–40

Cancer: pesticides and, 3–4

Captan, 164

Carbamates, 6, 93–94

Carbaryl, 164, 173

Carbofuran: Fresco County incident, 34–35

Carpets: reservoirs for pesticides, 160

Carson, Rachel:Silent Spring,2–3

Channels-of-Trade policy: FQPA, 94

Chemical degradation, 7; pesticides in soil,

212

Children: agricultural spraying and

exposure, 189; difference in effects of

pesticide residues, 69–70; health

effects of pesticides, 3–4; health

impacts on farm children, 48–49;

household pesticide risks, 162; no

protection from WPS, 31–32;

organic diets versus conventional

diets, 100–101; organophosphates in

food and, 90–91; pet exposure, 160;

protection from new and existing

pesticides, 241; risk in agricultural

areas, 160; tenfold safety factor for,

19; use of organic foods, 99

Chlopyrifos, 164, 195

Chlordane, 164, 165–67, 226; decades-long

contamination results, 166; illness

linked to home exposure, 166–67

Chlordecone (Kepone), 165

Chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides, 2

Chlorobenzilate, 225

Chlorpropham, 225

Chlorpyrifos (Dursban), 159

Chromated copper arsenate (CCA): use on

playgrounds, 143–44

Codex Alimentarius Commission, 219

Commercial pesticides: home garden

versus, 174–75

Compliance samples: food shipments, 77

Consumer protection: FQPA and, 74

Consumers Union: reporting on organic

foods, 79

Corporate accountability: environmental

and health risks of pesticides, 229–30

Cosmetic pesticides, 236–37

Costa Rica: pesticide strategy, 227–28

Cross-resistance, 47

Data reporting: FQPA, 73–74; pesticide-

related illness, 39–40; quality

problems, 40–41

DBCP: water pollution, 200

DDT, 226

DEET, 165

Degradation: pesticides in soil, 210

Delaney Clause, 18–19

Department of Labor and Industry, 44

Diazinon, 116, 164, 195

Dichlobenil: use on school grounds, 143

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), 2

Dichlorvos (DDVP), 165

Dieldrin, 165, 226

Dietary risks: pesticide residues, 68–70

Disposal: understanding of, 163–64

Dose response: in pesticide data, 79–80

Drinking water, 199–208

Dursban (chlorpyrifos), 116

Earthworms, 209–10

EDB, 226

Education: proper use of pesticides,

179–80

Endocrine disrupters, 20

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