Bulletin #626
July 23, 2006
Dear All,
As of 10:00 am Sunday July 23, 98 ONLINE letters have been sent to EPA Adminstrator Stephen Johnson (see letter below and for the URL for easy to send instructions, go to http://actionstudio.org/?go=2367).
This has quadrupled our total from Friday (22). While these are still very early returns (being the weekend and the holiday season many people will have yet to receive their invitations to participate), what is very striking is that at least one letter has come in from a total of 30 states in the US, along with one each from Quebec, NZ and Australia. If this continues it demonstrates a very wide breadth of concern across the country (and possibly the world). Please help this trend to continue - please send the letter to everyone you know via email. If you have email it is so EASY to participate in this action and make your voice heard.
Remember this letter is in support of FAN’s efforts (as well as those of EWG, Beyond Pesticides and OCA) to win a “stay” on EPA’s decision to allow Dow to use sulfuryl fluoride on hundreds of foodstuffs in warehouses and food procesing plants. This reckless action is coming at a time when it is clear that our kids are already over-exposed to fluoride. Enough is Enough!
To add a little more fun and interest in the days leading up to the August 4 deadline for comments I have made a league table of the number of letters sent in by each state.
If you live outside the US do not hesitate to send in the ONLINE letter and add your own personalized comments. You might point out that this concerns you a) because a lot of food from the US - especially processed foods - ends up in your country, and b) since your country has been stupid enough to copy America’s lead on water fluoridation that they might also copy this stupidity as well.
Paul Connett
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LEAGUE TABLE for EPA-Sulfuryl fluoride letter:
CA 9
WA 8
WI 7
FL 6
HI 6
NY 6
KS 5
MT 5
CT 4
GA 4
OR 4
MA 4
TX 4
VT 3
IL 2
MN 2
NC 2
UT 2
AZ 1
AK1
CO 1
IA 1
IN 1
MO 1
NJ 1
PA 1
RI 1
SC 1
TN 1
VA 1
CANADA
QC 1
OTHER COUNTRIES
AU 1
NZ 1
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The ONLINE letter to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson
(go to http://actionstudio.org/?go=2367 to add your name to this letter)
Dear EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson:
I am deeply concerned about a new fluoride-based pesticide (sulfuryl fluoride) that EPA is allowing to be sprayed on all processed foods and a broad assortment of raw food. While EPA’s decision may benefit the bottom line of Dow AgroSciences, it does not protect the public health, or the public interest.
The public expects EPA to employ the best science available in its approval of pesticides. However, it is apparent that this did not happen with sulfuryl fluoride. Indeed, the National Academy of Sciences recently concluded that the safety standard used by EPA to approve sulfuryl fluoride is, in fact, not safe at all.
Moreover, as the NAS report makes clear, and as is evident by the growing number of children with dental fluorosis, many Americans are being OVER-exposed to fluoride. There is no safety margin for additional fluoride exposures that will result from sulfuryl fluoride. I am particularly concerned for susceptible subsets of consumers, including children, people with kidney disease, people with excess thirst (e.g. diabetics, athletes, and laborers) and people with nutrient deficiencies.
Finally, as Director of EPA, I would like you to investigate why EPA increased the allowable dosage for infants and children not once, but twice, during its approval process for sulfuryl fluoride. In direct violation of the Food Quality Protection Act, these manipulations have left our children ten times less protected than adults.
For these, and the many other reasons detailed in the petition to EPA, I urge you to revoke all food-based uses of sulfuryl fluoride.
Please add my comments to the docket #: EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0174 and EPA-HQ-OPP-2003-0373.
Go to http://actionstudio.org/?go=2367 to add your name (and comments) to this letter
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Dear All,
As of 10:00 am Sunday July 23, 98 ONLINE letters have been sent to EPA Adminstrator Stephen Johnson (see letter below and for the URL for easy to send instructions, go to http://actionstudio.org/?go=2367).
This has quadrupled our total from Friday (22). While these are still very early returns (being the weekend and the holiday season many people will have yet to receive their invitations to participate), what is very striking is that at least one letter has come in from a total of 30 states in the US, along with one each from Quebec, NZ and Australia. If this continues it demonstrates a very wide breadth of concern across the country (and possibly the world). Please help this trend to continue - please send the letter to everyone you know via email. If you have email it is so EASY to participate in this action and make your voice heard.
Remember this letter is in support of FAN’s efforts (as well as those of EWG, Beyond Pesticides and OCA) to win a “stay” on EPA’s decision to allow Dow to use sulfuryl fluoride on hundreds of foodstuffs in warehouses and food procesing plants. This reckless action is coming at a time when it is clear that our kids are already over-exposed to fluoride. Enough is Enough!
To add a little more fun and interest in the days leading up to the August 4 deadline for comments I have made a league table of the number of letters sent in by each state.
If you live outside the US do not hesitate to send in the ONLINE letter and add your own personalized comments. You might point out that this concerns you a) because a lot of food from the US - especially processed foods - ends up in your country, and b) since your country has been stupid enough to copy America’s lead on water fluoridation that they might also copy this stupidity as well.
Paul Connett
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LEAGUE TABLE for EPA-Sulfuryl fluoride letter:
CA 9
WA 8
WI 7
FL 6
HI 6
NY 6
KS 5
MT 5
CT 4
GA 4
OR 4
MA 4
TX 4
VT 3
IL 2
MN 2
NC 2
UT 2
AZ 1
AK1
CO 1
IA 1
IN 1
MO 1
NJ 1
PA 1
RI 1
SC 1
TN 1
VA 1
CANADA
QC 1
OTHER COUNTRIES
AU 1
NZ 1
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The ONLINE letter to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson
(go to http://actionstudio.org/?go=2367 to add your name to this letter)
Dear EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson:
I am deeply concerned about a new fluoride-based pesticide (sulfuryl fluoride) that EPA is allowing to be sprayed on all processed foods and a broad assortment of raw food. While EPA’s decision may benefit the bottom line of Dow AgroSciences, it does not protect the public health, or the public interest.
The public expects EPA to employ the best science available in its approval of pesticides. However, it is apparent that this did not happen with sulfuryl fluoride. Indeed, the National Academy of Sciences recently concluded that the safety standard used by EPA to approve sulfuryl fluoride is, in fact, not safe at all.
Moreover, as the NAS report makes clear, and as is evident by the growing number of children with dental fluorosis, many Americans are being OVER-exposed to fluoride. There is no safety margin for additional fluoride exposures that will result from sulfuryl fluoride. I am particularly concerned for susceptible subsets of consumers, including children, people with kidney disease, people with excess thirst (e.g. diabetics, athletes, and laborers) and people with nutrient deficiencies.
Finally, as Director of EPA, I would like you to investigate why EPA increased the allowable dosage for infants and children not once, but twice, during its approval process for sulfuryl fluoride. In direct violation of the Food Quality Protection Act, these manipulations have left our children ten times less protected than adults.
For these, and the many other reasons detailed in the petition to EPA, I urge you to revoke all food-based uses of sulfuryl fluoride.
Please add my comments to the docket #: EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0174 and EPA-HQ-OPP-2003-0373.
Go to http://actionstudio.org/?go=2367 to add your name (and comments) to this letter
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in FAN
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