2 Important meetings Thurdsay 5 8 08 5 pm SF all wildlife LBAM aerial pesticide spray

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Important meeting Thurdsay 5-8-08 5:30 pm SF, all wildlife LBAM

aerial pesticide spray

 

To All concerned with the coming aerial spray's effect on wildlife and

domestic animals in San Francisco and what the SF animal welfare

commission can do about it. Please come tomorrow and speak out.

 

See meeting announcements below, plus below those announcement see

information of the effect of the soon to happen pesticide spray on

animals and of all nature in SF.

 

Wednesday, 07 May 2008

Two meetings on Light Brown Apple Moth Spraying - Thurs 5/8/08

 

There will be two meetings on Thursday evening, May 8, 2008, about the

proposed program to eradicate the Light Brown Apple Moth

(LBAM),including a proposal to spray a pheromone that will disrupt

the moth's mating over San Francisco and most of the Bay Area.

 

The sprayings will be repeated each month for up to 9 months every

one to three months up to five years. The spraying is quite

controversial, with many people concerned about possible effects on

people and animal's health.

 

 

1st Meeting

http://www.sfgov.org/site/awcc_meeting.asp?id=1344 contact

commissioners if you can not make it to speak out.

Animal Control and Welfare Commission

Thurs, May 8, 2008

5:30 pm

Room 408, City Hall

San Francisco

 

The Commission will hear presentations from Bob Dowell, from the CA

Dept of Food and Agriculture and the LBAM program director, in support

of the spraying, and from three opponents of the

 

spraying: Dr. Joel Parrott, Director of the Oakland Zoo, Roy Upton,

and author Susan McCarthy. The Commission testimony will focus on

possible effects of the aerial spraying and other proposed

 

measures to eradicate the LBAM on animals, both domestic pets and

wildlife. Testimony will also include what pet guardians should and

should not do if the spraying occurs.

 

2nd Meeting

San Francisco Town Hall Meeting on LBAM

Thursday, May 8, 2008

7:00 pm

County Fair Building (Hall of Flowers) in Golden Gate Park

9th Avenue and Lincoln Way - at the Strybing Arboretum/SF Botanical

Gardens

 

Brought to you by San Franciscans Concerned About the Spray

with Sponsors: Senator Carole Migden, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, Stop

the Spray, CASS-SF, and Play Not Spray

 

For more information go to www.sfspraytownhall.org

Speakers include:

 

* Dr. James Carey, UC-Davis entomologist

* Jeff Rosendale, horticulturist and co-author with Dr. Daniel Harder

of a paper on management of the LBAM

* Nan Wishner, Albany Integrated Pest Management Task Force

* Stacia Lansman, M.D.

* Helge Hellberg, Executive Director, Marin Organic

* Mike Lynberg, Silicon Valley businessman who documented the adverse

health reactions of Santa Cruz and Monterey residents after those

regions were sprayed.

* John Russo, farmer and Director, Stop the Spray

* Frank Egger, former Mayor of Fairfax and Coordinator of Stop the

Spray Marin

* State Senator Carole Midgen

* San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi

 

 

Comprehensive website on issue:

http://www.knowyourusa.com/kyu/lbamspray/LBAMSprayRefdoc.htm (see

third main topic down Toxicology and 4th topic Health).

 

reports on wildlife etc from site:

Adverse impact on the bird populations (Sea bird die-off) (11 page

report)

http://www.lbamspray.com/Reports/LBAM%20Fact%20Sheet%20Bird%20Die-off.pdf

 

Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) Eradication Program: Potential Effects

on Pollinators and Implications for California Agriculture

http://www.lbamspray.com/Reports/Bees.pdf

 

Lawrence Rose M.D., M.P.H., former Senior Public Medical Officer for

Cal-OSHA

and part of the UCSF Occupational/Environmental Medicine Department

Marin Pesticide Spraying Health Hazard Alert:

http://lbamspray.com/Reports/Health%20Hazard%20Alert%20by%20Dr.%20Larry%20Rose%2\

0MD%20MPH.pdf

 

Information about Checkmate's particle size and composition

Aquatic Toxicology Laboratory the University of California, Davis

http://lbamspray.com/00_Documents/2007/ATL_Pheromone_Toxicity_Testing_112807.pdf

 

Checkmate® LBAM-F when it pools up like after rain the high pheromone

concentrations can cause 100 % mortality in the tested aquatic life.

 

Dr. Dennis Knepp, PhD, and Dr. Jeff Haferman. PhD, review data

provided by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA)

and find errors in regard to the article size of CheckMate, the

pesticide used in fall 2007. This letter and the accompanying analysis

show that the micro-capsules in CheckMate constitute a health hazard

which should have been investigated prior to spraying.

The CDFA states in their analysis that only 1.2% of the particles in

the Checkmate spray were smaller than 10 microns, which is a critical

size for inhalation to deep within the lungs. They based their

computations on particle volume, not number of particles, which is

simply incorrect, Haferman stated. Knepp explained that when the

analysis is corrected we find the average particle size to be about 17

microns with significant numbers of much smaller particles. The

scientists cited research that shows the expected mass concentration

of the Checkmate spray could cause an increase in mortality rates by 7

per cent.

http://forum.stopthespray.org/download/file.php?id=216 & sid=f012f9ca45addfc03cf56\

06e1278da9e

http://www.pdsonoma.org/article/scientists-spotlight-error-in-agency-analysis-of\

-lbam-spray

 

 

 

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