Pesticide Poisoning

Pesticide-Induced Diseases Database. Documents range of diseases –asthma, learning disabilities, birth defects, diabetes, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, and cancer– linked to pesticides.

* California’s “Top Pesticide Blunders” Report Highlights Hazards  (Beyond Pesticides, April 22, 2009) Interesting to see what is reported when there is an adverse effects reportting system. Some of these incidents defiy the imagination., some represent common behaviour with non-toxic products extended to toxic ones...

 * Northern Exposure Acute Pesticide Poisonings in Canada by the David Suzuki Foundation. 322 Sask residents are acutely poisoned every year.

•  Joint DSF-SNAP Media release – Saskatchewan
• Media release (generic national version http://www.davidsuzuki.org/latestnews/dsfnews06210701.asp
• report and executive summary (English and French) - accessible from http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Publications/Northern_exposure.asp (bottom of the page)

*  August 4, 2008 Report Documents Poisoning from New Generation of Pesticides ("safe" pyrethirns and pyrethroids)