BAN METHYL IODIDE (CANCER-MISCARRIAGES) ON STRAWBERRIES: TAKE ACTION!

Field of Nightmares: Keep Cancer-Causing Pesticide Out of Strawberry Fields It’s a rare opportunity. Today you can urge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to change course, protect people's health, and prevent the pesticide industry from trumping science. What’s this all about? In 2007 EPA bended to the will of industry and authorized the use of a highly dangerous pesticide called methyl iodide. With your help, CEH and other organizations that work to keep methyl iodide off our farms has just convinced EPA to reconsider its approval of this bad actor chemical. When EPA first began considering methyl iodide, a group of scientists (including five Nobel Prize winners) wrote the agency to share their concern about the pesticide. "It is astonishing" wrote this high-powered group of researchers, that EPA "is working to legalize broadcast releases of one of the more toxic chemicals used in manufacturing into the environment." But that's exactly what EPA did, approving the use of this chemical on strawberries and other crops. In doing so, EPA dismissed serious health concerns, including the fact that methyl iodide causes cancer and miscarriages at strikingly low exposures. Now EPA's decision to reconsider its approval of methyl iodide gives you a valuable chance to stop this experiment on our health. It won't be easy - the company that makes and sells methyl iodide is the largest privately-owned pesticide company in the world. But with your help, we can make sure EPA does the right thing. Tell EPA: We don't need this methyl iodide poison!