I found a couple more sources http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/1999/19990120.unep1.html
<quote> The POPs Elimination Network was a broad coalition of more than 150 environmental and public interest non-governmental organizations, he said. Their core message was that the production, use, release and transfer of POPs must stop. In particular, the World Wildlife Fund believed DDT must be phased out and banned by the year 2007 and, in the interim, it should be treated as a pesticide of last resort in light of its devastating effects. <end quote> They've backed down from that somewhat, but the latest statement from the POPs Elimination Network that I found at their website http://www.ipen.org/ipenweb/library/4_3_p_doc_4.html still contains dangerous falsehoods. <quote> Decades ago, DDT saved millions of lives around the world. Today fewer than a dozen countries still heavily rely on it for malaria control. The latest scientific studies provide evidence that its use can threaten the health of the very children it is intended to protect. DDT persists for long periods of time in the environment, it is an endocrine disruptor, and it bio-accumulates in the food chain and the human body. Children are threatened with health problems via exposure to DDT in the womb and in breast milk. Furthermore, illegal diversion of public health supplies of DDT to agricultural uses can contaminate the environment and crops sold in international markets. House spraying programs based on DDT have been weakened by local opposition to spraying and by mosquitoes becoming resistant to it. DDT has proved to be unsuccessful in frontier areas where housing is poor. <end quote> I have contended that there is are no good studies that provide a measureable danger to humans from the high levels of use in the US. I guess you can argue with this, but if you accept it, I think the above qualifies as disinformation. Dan M. -------------------------------------------------------------------- myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft® Windows® and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
