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Do not misconstrue the information found here as legal advice. Nor does anything anyone may do here constitute an attorney-client relationship. While the advice and information found on this website may at times be quite specific, it, again, does not in any way amount to legal advice.
If you require legal advice, hire a lwayer in your particular jurisdiction, preferrably one who has expertise and experience handling the specific kind of legal question you may have. This site is of the education variety only.
Hopefully Loompi will be another Erin Brockovich. "She brought a small town to its feet and a huge corporation to its knees."
In loving memory of Loompi, our beautiful pet dog, whose life was allegedly taken by pesticides/chemical agents used on golf courses and landscaping
This site is dedicated to you Loompi. You were our greatest gift. Love you forever little friend.
Letter from the Federal Animal Hospital about Loompi's idiopathic diagnosis and demise
"This letter is in reference to an eleven year old spayed female dachshund named “Loompi”, owned by Bill and Elizabeth Mac Dowell of 5370 Merion Way, Stuart, Florida. “Loompi” passed away at home on September 18, 2005 after a long battle with respiratory disease. The radiographic diagnosis was chronic pulmonary fibrosis complicated by intrathoracic fat deposits." (From the letter)
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Registry of Pesticide --- Sensitive Persons in Florida
There are only 100 (approximately) individuals who are named on Florida's "Sensitivity List". What is this list? Read on! Review this site. Martin County has three (3) names on the list...I am one of those on the list who have been affected by the killer pesticides used on the golf course(s) and surrounding residential areas. My health is deteriorating over the years living in Mariner Sands.
I allege there is a "Quid Pro Quo" (You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours) between the golfing communities, the pesticide companies, and the powers to be. Your health is not important...$$$ the big buck is!!!
Pesticides Compliance Activities...Legal
Pesticides and the Law..A Guide to the Legal System
Florida Statute Chapter 487 - PESTICIDE REGULATION AND SAFETY
487.031 (13)(E) - 487.031 Prohibited acts.--It is unlawful: "To apply any pesticide directly to, or in any manner cause any pesticide to drift onto, any person or area not intended to receive the pesticide;"
Symptoms of Pesticide Poisoning
Pesticide Poisoning:
Letters from Victims and Families
Letter to Palm Beach Post (If Ag-Mart cared, it could have vetted its pesticides)
Failure to Warn (1)
FAILURE TO WARN (2) (Poison in the Grass)
E-Mail to Board of Governors/Litigation Attorney
E-Mail to Mariner Sands "Failure to Warn"
(Poison In The Grass: The Hazards And Consequences Of Lawn Pesticides)
Pesticides engulf the home and are easily tracked inside, readily inhaled and absorbed through the skin. They do harm by attacking the central nervous system and other essential organs. Symptoms of pesticide poisoning are often deceptively simple, commonly mis-diagnosed as flu or allergies. They include, but are not limited to, headaches, nausea, fever, breathing difficulties, seizures, eye pains, vomiting, cramps, diarrhea, sore nose, tongue, or throat; burning skin, rashes, coughing, muscle pain, tissue swelling, blurred vision, numbness and tingling in hands or feet, incontinence, anxiety, irritability, sleep disorders, hyperactivity, fatigue, dizziness, irregular heartbeat, high blood pressure, spontaneous bleeding, and temporary paralysis. Long-term consequences include lowered fertility, birth defects, miscarriages, blindness, liver and kidney dysfunction, neurological damage, heart trouble, stroke, immune system disorders, menstrual problems, memory loss, suicidal depression, cancer, and death.
Press Release - Press Release - Press Release
Play For Pink (Cancer Funding - "Strokes of Death")
Breast Cancer and Health (by Sandra Steingraber)
I believe that true change will come about when the public is prepared to take action. Those concerned about the environmental links to the cancer epidemic have an important role to play in exposing those links. They can't do it by letting themselves be used as public relations fodder or accepting funding from polluters while urging them to "do the right thing."
The Killing Fields - A Slow Death
Pesticides: "Cide" in pesticides means "to kill"
Sending women onto pesticide-saturated grass to raise money for breast cancer seems problematic to me when the sponsoring organization is one that is committed to addressing the environmental causes of cancer. While the commitment of the organization may be unshakable, the methods used to do its work and the larger social effects of those methods must be questioned.
OUR MISSION
Victory Over Addiction International, Inc. http://www.voai.org is a grassroots substance abuse and environmental education non - profit organization. We are dedicated to researching and disseminating information about alcohol(ism), and the addictive drug/poison ethyl alcohol. In addition to substance abuse, pesticides as well as other debilitating chemicals and their impact on human/animal health when applied to golf courses and resident's environment. Some health problems are listed below as a result of these chemicals.
We seek to empower individuals to act as catalysts for change within their own communities, to litigate and legislate as they see fit. Alcoholics (approximately two million are believed to be members of Alcoholics Anonymous at present) have an allergy to alcohol. There are probally as many victims to the chemicals applied to golf courses.
Golf is a wonderful and enjoyable sport. Millions of people get real enjoyment and comradeship from playing with all ages of friends they would never had met prior to picking up a club and hitting a ball. All over the world there are fantastic and beautiful golfing communities and accommodations where the ordinary individual would never experience in a lifetime. Some are lucky enough to live in a golf and country club. Like alcohol there will always be golfing. There are individuals who are allergic to alcohol as others are allergic to strawberries. And yes, there are those allergic to chemicals such as the asthmatic, and all lung diseases, notably those with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (cause unknown), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, brain cancer, prostate and lung cancer, COPD, breast cancer, also many more mentioned below. These people must be protected. That is why this site has been developed and will change from time to time. Not to interfere with the golfer who thoroughly enjoys the game, or the analogy of prohibition for alcohol, to stop building golf courses and try and end golfing...but let the suffering individual be alerted to the dangers of the application of chemicals being applied to the greens and surrounding areas, ie: residents who live near a golf course are bombarded by these killer chemicals almost daily and they don't know it. After that being said...let's get on with it!
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"THEY KNEW OR SHOULD HAVE KNOWN" (Legal Term)
Wanted: Attorneys to file a class action complaint against Manufacturers, pesticide/chemical spraying companies, golfing communities and property managers.
Florida Law
SECTION 26. Claimant's right to fair compensation.--
(a) Article I, Section 26 is created to read "Claimant's right to fair compensation." In any medical liability claim involving a contingency fee, the claimant is entitled to receive no less than
70% of the first $250,000.00 in all damages received by the claimant, exclusive of reasonable and customary costs, whether received by judgment, settlement, or otherwise, and regardless of the number of defendants. The claimant is entitled to 90% of all damages in excess of $250,000.00, exclusive of reasonable and customary costs and regardless of the number of defendants. This provision is self-executing and does not require implementing legislation.Click Manufacturers for the "Restatement of the Law, Third Torts, Product Liability"
The author of this web site lives close to the third hole of one of the golf courses in Mariner Sands Golf and Country Club. I am a victim of "Drift" and the deleterious and lethal chemicals used
on the golf courses (2), not to preclude the surrounding resident's areas.What does it take for you golfers (and residents) to see that you are slowly committing suicide? You may not like what you see on this site, and certainly not me. I'm on Florida's "Sensitivity List" and there are only three (3) individuals in Martin County on the list because I have been affected by the chemicals applied to the golf course(s) and surrounding areas. The author is only attempting to educate you to the fact the golfing communities are only thinking $$$,...not your health and welfare. Please take this site seriously.
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Atrazine banned abroad (but still used in U.S.A.)
Atrazine Whistle Blower Takes His Case to Court
Atrazine is Just One of Many Chemicals Used by Mariner Sands
Atrazine used in Golfing Communities Due to health and environmental concerns, several European countries have banned atrazine. The European Union has announced it will ban atrazine in 2005.
Pieces of the Puzzle: Does Atrazine Affect the Risk of Cancer? Golfing Communities spray Atrazine without regard for the health and welfare of residents!
Pesticide Information Center for Atrazine
EPA Won't Restrict Toxic Herbicide Atrazine, Despite Health Threat (White House documents obtained by NRDC reveal that industry influenced the decision. )
More Atrazine The chemical atrazine is ranked as 
Orange for Warning. We recommend that you avoid exposure.
This is just one of the chemicals used:
(Listed under Mariner Sands Hazardous Chemicals: Name: DURSBAN)In June 2000, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the banning of most uses of Dursban, also known as chlorpyrifos, because of concerns the pesticide was harmful to the public health, particularly children.
A number of lawsuits have been filed over the years against Dow Chemical and other companies that produced Dursban. The EPA cited concerns over possible neurological damage and birth defects, while plaintiffs claimed a variety of maladies such as cancer, infertility, hepatitis, pancreatitis, paralysis and mental retardation.
Dragnet used in Golfing Communities
Curfew Fumigant Could Kill and is used in Golfing Country Clubs
For use on golf courses and athletic fields. Must be applied by an approved custom applicator. Do not apply within 100 ft. of buildings or wells. 24 hour reentry restriction. Cannot be used on areas with Karst geology. 5 gal/acre
CURFEW "RESTRICED" USE PESTICIDE (PDF)
Curfew Label for Florida
Curfew Manufactured by Dow AgroSciences)
Material Safety Data Sheet for Florida
Golf and Country clubs refuse to alert residents and golfers about the hazards of chemicals being used on the golf courses and areas bordering on resident's property. This could be you!!! Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Buyer Beware
Before buying or renting in a golf community, please don't walk into a mine field of hazardous and debilitating chemicals being used in and around that community, without serious consideration first. It is alleged there are no, or never has been, warnings by any club that serious health problems or possible impending death awaits the unsuspecting buyer or renter. Inquire first concerning the chemicals being applied. If you have any of the health issues named on this site....DON'T BUY or RENT in these communities! You may not have a disease at present, but you could develop one soon after moving into one of the clubs....anywhere in the world! For that matter...anywhere golf is the sport.
BUYING A HOUSE? YOU HAVE RIGHTS!!
Find a Environmental Attorney - Stuart Florida Area
Chemical Profiles/ Mancozeb (FORE WSP) used by Loompi's Country Club
"CAVEAT EMPTOR"! (BUYER BEWARE)
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If you have been violated, check with an attorney.Spitzer also initiated several lawsuits to deal with misleading advertising by lawn care companies, and with overuse of lawn chemicals..........
Organic Golf Lawsuit, Long Island, New York
The Neighborhood Network Organic Golf Project has aggressively sought to address the potential ground water contamination impacts from the pesticides used on golf courses. After more than ten years of the project and two successful lawsuits to block golf courses, for the first time, the organization came out and publicly supported a particular golf course proposal, called: the Sebonack Golf Club, which will be located near the Peconic Bay in Southampton.
Getting it Done for Long Island (Lawsuit for organic golf courses) Environmentalists Stop Work on Golf Course
Appellate Court Decision Establishes Important Precedent in Favor of Organic Golf
Stopping Golf Course Construction in Stony Point, NY
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They Knew or Should Have Known
Lawn chemicals, breast cancers linked. A study in the American Journal of
Epidemiology (http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/165/6/643)
compared 1,508 women with newly diagnosed breast cancer and 1,556 women
without breast cancer. The Long Island, New York women, were questioned about
their activities during 1996-1997, and found that "the use of lawn and garden
pesticides was associated with an approximate 40% increased risk in developing
breast cancer." The dose was not a determinant since any exposure to the
pesticides seemed to increase the risk of developing cancer. The researchers
have called for "use of non-chemical alternatives for pest control."
Greens promote extending Ontario pesticide ban to golf courses. Quebec is one
of 127 Canadian cities that have restricted use of pesticides on lawns and in
public spaces. In Ontario, four million residents in 19 communities (36% of
the city's population) have already banned the use of lawn chemicals.
Ontario's Green Party (http://soonews.ca/viewarticle.php?id=11030) is teeing
up to extend the ban to cover golf courses throughout the province. On
average, golf courses apply 5kg of pesticides per acre, more than three times
the average intensity used in agriculture. The pesticides include the
herbicide 2,4-D (Frontline TM), the fungicide chlorothalonil (both suspected
human carcinogens) and the acutely toxic organophosphate insecticide
(http://www.panna.org/campaigns/ops.html), chlorpyrifos. A recent municipal
study found that golf course run-off has severely contaminated Ontario's
Rideau River.
Pesticides on Golf Courses: Mixing Toxins With Play?
In recent years, high levels of arsenic and lead have been found in the soil and water of South Florida golf courses and agricultural lands. The impact of arsenic-containing herbicides, used for turf maintenance, on soil and groundwater beneath golf courses has become a point of concern.
Letter to the Editor - Stuart News
Citizen Lawsuit - (Example: "Strict Liability")
A common law theory arises from the generalized legal duty individuals in a law abiding society owe to one another. Every adult is obligated to a certain duty of care for the personal and property rights of others when engaged in daily activities. A violation of this responsibility may give rise to a cause of action (lawsuit) whereby the injured party may pursue a legal or equitable remedy.
A tort action is brought to the court by a plaintiff who alleges to have suffered some injury to his person or property as a result of the commission or omission of certain acts by another person—the defendant. Common law theories, as they pertain to pesticide storage, transport, application, and disposal, typically fall into one or more of the following categories: trespass, nuisance, negligence, or strict liability.
Citing data linking pesticides to cancers including kidney, breast and lung, and to childhood and adult leukemia, brain tumors, lymphoma and sarcoma, the mere possibility of harm being done by pesticides should be enough to compel Florida's leaders to take action in the form of a bylaw.
Please scroll down to Civil Liabilities, Page 8, Pesticides and the Law
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Evidence Suggests a Possible Link - by Richard Pressinger (M.Ed.) http://www.chem-tox.com/
A new theory is coming to light which should be causing concern regarding the use of chemical pesticides for controlling mosquito populations in Florida and elsewhere. Because of the serious potential for irreparable widespread harm to human health regarding this potential problem, it is an issue that cannot be ignored and must be investigated immediately and thoroughly as it is based on the latest information we have regarding encephalitis carrying mosquitoes and human genetic function.
EDUCATION NEWS |
Paramus school reopens with sigh of relief - Thursday, September 6, 2007 |
"West Brook parents first learned of pesticides in soil there at levels 39 times state standards in May, four months after school officials first knew of the situation. Days later, Paramus Mayor James Tedesco ordered the school closed and helped arrange for classes to conclude at Bergen Community College.""The district's failure to tell parents and teachers about the pesticides pro-voked protest on local and state levels, and eventually resulted in Schools Superintendent Janice Dime's resignation and teachers initiating a class action lawsuit against the district."
Approving Harmful Pesticide Lands EPA into Legal Trouble
The below are but a few defininitions of the possibilities that may or may not apply to the reader’s particular situation. I urge, and suggest strongly, that the reader retains an attorney for further advice. This (writer) victim personally believes, and alleges, a criminal act has, and is being committed by not warning the unsuspecting public of the chemicals being dispensed on golf courses and residential areas that harm and kill humans and pets. Which of the below are the golfing communities, not to preclude those named above,
Guilty Of?
A typical golf course uses about a half ton of chemical pesticides each year.
ILLUSTRATION COURTESY OF GETTY IMAGES
Green greens
Alternatives to chemical-dependent golf courses
PESTICIDES AND THE LAW - A Guide to the Legal System |
Culpable Negligence: culpable negligence is a degree of carelessness greater than simple negligence; culpable negligence is a negligent act or omission accompanied by a culpable disregard for the foreseeable consequences to others of that act or omission; an objective test is applied in determining whether the consequences of an act are foreseeable.
Criminal negligence:
Conduct that shows a reckless disregard for human life or safety and a willful indifference to the injury that is likely to follow. Add conspiracy to coverup the crime by two or more individuals and federal civil rights charges can be applied. For the federal law to apply, there must be proof that two or more people were conspiring to deprive an individual of civil rights. To go a step further, if death results, conviction can result in a term of up to life imprisonment and tens of thousands of dollars in fines. Probable cause is all that is needed for a Grand Jury to bring formal charges (indictment) against the accused.Probable Cause:
Reasonable ground for suspicion, supported by circumstances strong enough to warrant a cautious man’s belief that the law has been, or is being, violated.
"THEY KNEW OR SHOULD HAVE KNOWN" (Legal Term)
States Ask EPA to Disclose Inert Pesticide Ingredients
The petition says more disclosure will lead to greater consumer awareness of the potential health and environmental impacts of using pesticides
Ban Pesticides from the fields (Golf courses are classified as "Agriculture")
More Damages Awarded to Banana Workers
(Sterility)"Pesticide ban process seen as political" "...The monitoring of pesticides use in Florida has become make-believe. It is Disneyesque." Palm Beach Post article 12/19/05 - John Lantigua Staff Writer
Turf Farm (What Mariner Sands is Not...Agriculture)
The 2006 Florida Statutes
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Martin County, Florida Property Appraiser's Office - Florida Statute 193.461
Question for the uninformed public: Is the above a coverup for the golf courses? Does Florida protect them by the above definition? Are strawberries, tomatoes, or for that matter...are any agricultural products grown on golf courses????
Political lobbying hogwash! "We are also heavily involved in the golf course industry. There are over 1100 golf courses in Florida. While not true agriculture, from an environmental standpoint a golf course may be considered an intensively managed turf grass farm. We work closely with the golf industry to minimize the environmental impact of golf course operations."
HERE'S THE DIFFERENCE!
Martin County, Florida Agricultural Classification of Lands
Pursuant to Florida Statute 193.461, “No lands shall be classified as agricultural lands unless an application is filed on or before March 1st of each year. Only lands which are used primarily for bona fide agricultural purposes shall be classified agricultural.” BONA FIDE AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES MEANS GOOD FAITH COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURAL USE OF LAND. January 1st is the statutory assessment date, therefore, the property must be in use as bona fide agriculture on this date.
Coalition Pesticide Information
Pass Bill to Ban Harmful Pesticides
Poisoned People - In this section I address the use of Roundup (or Glyphosate) by the Hawkesbury City Council, as well as other environmental issues of public concern. I have re-created letters I've sent out, with headings and other incidental features added.
In order to successfully file your lawsuit, it is suggested that you retain an attorney.
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"Golfers are greatly exposed to pesticides. Direct contact encourages absorption of toxic materials through the skin and sometimes ingestion. Recently sprayed pesticides do volatize on hot days, leading to additional risk of inhalation." Some acute symptoms golfers and workers on the course may exhibit due to pesticide exposure include memory loss, fatigue, headaches, nausea and dizziness. Long-term concerns include birth defects, neurological disorders and certain types of cancer. A study commissioned by the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) found that golf course superintendents have a higher than average rate of mortality due to cancer, including lung, brain and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Although the study did not establish a cause and effect relationship between pesticides and cancer, it did raise concerns. Dr. Burton Kross, who presented the study, stated, "In light of this study and other health-effect research about pesticides, a prudent strategy for golf course superintendents and their workers is to minimize their exposure to pesticides."
In creating a safer golf course, public education is critical. People walking the course have a right to know the potential dangers. When pesticide spraying takes place, signs should be posted notifying golfers and workers. Danger can be avoided even more so by practicing techniques that dodge the need for pesticides altogether, such as choosing a durable type of grass that will out-compete weeds and incorporating native plant species as part of the turf. The Firethorne Golf Club in Lincoln, NE, for example, uses prairie style roughs. An irrigation system, proper grass height and soil aeration, as well as continual testing of pH and nutrient levels also keeps pest problems in check.
Golf Course Superintendent's Position
Pesticides & Herbicides on Golf Course
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Florida and USA Golf Course Listing - Before you buy in a golfing community, check the chemicals being applied to the golf course and the surrounding areas.
Caveat Emptor (Buyer Beware)
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Did You Know a Golf Course is Considered and Classified Under Agriculture, as a "Turf Farm?"
WOMEN PLEASE READ BELOW!!!!
If you value your children's health (girls/boys) don't let them near golf courses and golfing communities. Especially if they are of child bearing years! Chemicals could destroy their lives, and possibly kill their child to be!
"Carlitos turns 1" He was born with no limbs to South Florida Farmworkers exposed to pesticides. (click (The Palm Post article 12/18/05.)
Carlos Manuel Candelario Herrera turns 2 today. (12/17/06; Palm Beach Post)
He does not know he is the boy in the middle: the middle of a two-state agricultural investigation; the middle of a high-profile civil lawsuit; the middle of rigorous debate about whether the pesticides routinely sprayed on Florida and North Carolina crops - where Herrera worked during her pregnancy - caused Carlitos' grave deformities.
Chemical Profiles/ Mancozeb (FORE WSP) a chemical used by golfing communities. Carlito is an example of what can happen to an unborn fetus.
Breast Cancer on the Golf Courses
1 Department of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
2 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
3 Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
4 Department of Medicine, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY
5 Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
Correspondence to Dr. Susan L. Teitelbaum, Department of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave Levy Place, Box 1043, New York, NY 10029 (e-mail: susan.teitelbaum{at}mssm.edu).
Received for publication February 2, 2006. Accepted for publication July 28, 2006. (e-mail: susan.teitelbaum@mssm.edu ).
Pesticides, common environmental exposures, have been examined in relation to breast cancer primarily in occupational studies or exposure biomarker studies. No known studies have focused on self-reported residential pesticide use. The authors investigated the association between reported lifetime residential pesticide use and breast cancer risk among women living on Long Island, New York. They conducted a population-based case-control study of 1,508 women newly diagnosed with breast cancer between August 1996 and July 1997 and 1,556 randomly selected, age-frequency-matched controls. Comprehensive residential pesticide use and other risk factors were assessed by using an in-person, interviewer-administered questionnaire. Unconditional logistic regression was used to calculate odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals. Breast cancer risk was associated with ever lifetime residential pesticide use (odds ratio = 1.39, 95% confidence interval: 1.15, 1.68). However, there was no evidence of increasing risk with increasing lifetime applications. Lawn and garden pesticide use was associated with breast cancer risk, but there was no dose response. Little or no association was found for nuisance-pest pesticides, insect repellants, or products to control lice or fleas and ticks on pets. This study is the first known to suggest that self-reported use of residential pesticides may increase breast cancer risk. Further investigation in other populations is necessary to confirm these findings.
breast neoplasms; case-control studies; environmental exposure; gardening; housing; pesticides
Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; LIBCSP, Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project; OR, odds ratio
Pesticides were one of the earliest suspects in the search for environmental factors in breast cancer; because laboratory studies show that many pesticides can mimic estrogen, a known breast cancer risk factor, or disrupt other hormones. Investigating this link is difficult, though, because we have all been exposed to multiple pesticides via multiple pathways. To study the effect on breast cancer, we need
the right way to measure those exposures.
Widower Files $2.5 Million Pesticide Lawsuit
Breast Cancer Action (Silence Is the Sound of Money Talking)
Sending women onto pesticide-saturated grass to raise money for breast cancer seems problematic to me when the sponsoring organization is one that is committed to addressing the environmental causes of cancer. While the commitment of the organization may be unshakable, the methods used to do its work and the larger social effects of those methods must be questioned
Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition - PREVENTION IS THE CURE!
A Must Read: "This Moment on Earth"
Pesticides are Polluting the Country
Suggested Attire for Golfers Men Losing Their Masculinity The Above Attire is Recommended When Golfing or Living in a Golf Community How do Men Become Estrogen Dominant ? (Female sex hormone) "During the last couple of decades this steady drop in Hormone production has been accelerated due to Estrogens in our environment (herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, Hormones used to produce fatter animals, larger eggs, more milk, etc.). The overall effect is less bio-available Testosterone in the Body by the age of 40 instead of the historic age of 55 years." Is the Environment Hurting Men? Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute - “the Effects that the Following Hormones (Testosterone, Estrogen, and Progesterone) Have on the Human Body (Contents of Curriculum Unit 88.05.04:)Endocrine Disrupting PesticidesWhat are Endocrine Disruptors? What is the Endoctrine System Click for all information
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Prostrate Cancer in Men...and More
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Coalition Pesticide Information
Health Effects of 30 Commonly Used Lawn Pesticides
Welcome to Search and Browse for
EXTOXNET...
Pesticide Information Profiles (PIPs)
Technical Pesticide Information
Search the Department of Health - Pesticides
Pesticide Information Center for Atrazine
EPA Won't Restrict Toxic Herbicide Atrazine, Despite Health Threat (White House documents obtained by NRDC reveal that industry influenced the decision. )
You must use pesticides in such a manner and under such conditions that will prevent contamination of people, pets, fish, wildlife, crops, property, structures, lands, pasturage, or waters adjacent to the area of use.
Pesticides on Golf Courses: Mixing Toxins with Play?
- Airborne Pesticide Drift in CaliforniaChronic Health Effects Associatedwith Airborne Pesticides
Is what you put on your
lawn killing you?
Who can be exposed to pesticides used on golf courses? Anyone on the golf course or nearby is at risk. Pesticide applicators, either professional contractors or golf course workers, can be exposed to these poisons during storage, mixing and application. Golfers playing shortly after pesticides have been applied, can be exposed directly to the pesticides on the turf, as well as to pesticide vapors and mists. People living near a golf course may be affected by sprays and dusts blown from the golf course onto their property and into their homes. Pesticides applied to the turf may run off into surface waters or leach down to groundwater, which can then expose people to contaminated drinking water. These people may live far from the place where pesticides were used.
| Active Ingredient | Potential Health Effects* |
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| Benfluralin | Decreases red blood cell count and hemoglobin concentration |
| Benomyl | Causes low birth weight |
| Chlorpyrifos | Impairs nervous system function |
| Dicamba | Toxic to fetus |
| Diquat | Causes cataracts |
| Disulfoton | Impairs nervous system function;causes optic nerve degeneration |
| Pendimethalin | Toxic to liver |
| Propoxur | Impairs nervous system function |
| Thiophanate-methyl | Decreases sperm formation, causes hyperthyroidism |
| Thiram | Toxic to nervous system |
| Triadimefon | Decreases red blood cell count |
* These are some health effects identified by the EPA that can result from sufficient oral exposure to the pesticides listed, including exposure from drinking water. Exposure to these pesticides by inhalation or direct contact and/or at higher concentrations could cause more severe health problems. (Source: Oral Reference Doses, Integrated Risk Information System, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1991)
Click Here for More of the Above
Green Coast Foundation - All About Pesticides
The Time for Organic Golf has Arrived
TruGreen ChemLawn is the largest lawn care provider in the United States serving more than 3.4 million households and annually generating more than $1.3 billion in income. TruGreen ChemLawn contributes to the yearly application of more than 70 million pounds of pesticides on some of America’s 30 million acres of lawns. The amount of pesticides applied is significant; the rate of pesticides used on lawns is on average ten times more per acre than what is used on agricultural land.
Pesticides on Golf Courses: Mixing Toxins with Play?
Breast Cancer and Golf Courses
PESTICIDES AND BREAST CANCER: PREVENTION IS CRUCIAL
Due to health and environmental concerns, several European countries have banned atrazine. The European Union has announced it will ban atrazine in 2005. |
Pesticide Use Ups Parkinson's in Men
ROYAL PALM BEACH GOLF COURSE TO BE TESTED
BEYOND PESTICIDES - 1997 T0 2006
BEYOND PESTIDES - DAILY NEWS ARCHIVES
Gateway on Pesticide Hazards and Safe Pest Management
Ban Pesticides from the fields (Golf courses are classified as "Agriculture")
"Pesticide ban process seen as political" "...The monitoring of pesticides use in Florida has become make-believe. It is Disneyesque." Palm Beach Post article 12/19/05 - John Lantigua Staff Writer
Orange for Warning. We recommend that you avoid exposure.