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Over 3000 Letters Sent To EPA

Bulletin #638

August 1, 2006

Dear All,

As the last of the attendees of our very successsful FAN conference (more about this when I have recovered my breath) winds their way home, I have been able to check the ONLINE letter count to EPA Administrater Stepen Johnson on the extraordinary issue of the use of sulfuryl fluoride on food.

In my last email, I said that “It would be terrific if we could get to 3000 by the August 4 deadline.”

Well, I am happy to report that we have now passed the 3000 mark and we are well on our way to 4000, with a total at 5 pm (EST) today of 3502!

In the 55 hours remaining (until midnight EST, August 4), I am fairly confident that we will top 4000, and there is a remote chance that we could even reach 5000. If you are one of those people who like to see minor miracles happen, please help us do this by getting any of your friends, who haven’t sent in the letter yet, to go to http://actionstudio.org/?go=2367 and do so.

Remember this ONLINE letter (copy below) is easy to send and the message is very important. You can either write your own message, send the message below, or substitute (i.e. cut and paste) this shorter message:

Dear EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson:

“We are getting far too much fluoride already and we don’t need any more in our food, thank you very much! And we certainly don’t want any more of this poison to help Dow AgroSciences make more money!

There must be better way of fumigating our food without putting holes in the ozone hole (methyl bromide) or putting holes in our kids’ brains (sulfuryl fluoride). Dow get creative - EPA get honest!”

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.

But whatever version you send, please get some message in to EPA Administrater Stepen Johnson before 12 midnight (EST) August 4. Go to http://actionstudio.org/?go=2367

Thank you to the 3500 people who have already sent your letter in.

Paul Connett

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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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