From:
Gaby Turek
Date:
Jul 14 20:56 UTC
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I apologize for the forwarding, but I think this is an important issue
that affects us all. Coming from the US where one knows there's all
sort of nasty stuff in the food, I was surprised to find out that all is
not well here in NZ either.
Gaby
-------- Original Message --------
*ACTION ALERT*
*PLEASE HELP US TO GET RID OF THE HIGHLY TOXIC INSECTICIDE ENDOSULFAN,
WHICH HAS BEEN BANNED IN 55 COUNTRIES.*
ERMA is currently reassessing New Zealand's use of the highly toxic and
persistent insecticide endosulfan and incredibly, they are proposing
to allow its continued use on our fruit and vegetables and on sports
fields, bowling greens, parks and airports.
Endosulfan is one of the worst pesticides still used in New Zealand, in
terms of its toxicity, chronic effects and environmental pollution. It
is an old-style organochlorine related to DDT, which is why 55 countries
have already banned it. *We urge you to take a moment and write/email
the Minister for the Environment, Trevor Mallard, asking him to
overturn ERMA's proposed decision and ban this controversial insecticide.*
The Minister has the powers to do this under section 68 of the Hazardous
Substances and New Organisms Act which allow him to call in the
application if the decision will have significant economic,
environmental, international or health effects. ERMAs decision will
have all of those.
Points to make in your submission:
Endosulfan has caused birth defects,
epilepsy, congenital intellectual impairment, cancer and devastating
chronic suffering in thousands of people who have been exposed to it
directly or by spray drift or contaminated water.
At very low levels of exposure
it can cause human breast cancer cells to grow and so is a real risk for
breast cancer.
It is a risk factor for Parkinsons Disease.
It is persistent and bioaccumulative and
it contaminates air, rain, snow, water, soil, and biota, including tree
bark around the world including the Arctic, Antarctica and Mt
Everest. ERMA has also acknowledged that it probably contaminates our
mountains such as Mt Taranaki, Mt Ruapehu etc, as a result of our use of
this insecticide.
It contaminates marine mammals such as
whales and seals and levels are increasing.
Because 60-70% of endosulfan evaporates
after use, any use of it here will contribute to global contamination.
It is ubiquitous in the human food chain
and in human bodies.
It is passed across the placenta to the
unborn infant and in breast milk to the newborn.
ERMAs decision has *not considered *any of these points even though the
information was available to them, so they cannot be relied on to make
the right decision for New Zealand*.*
*New Zealand**'s continued use of endosulfan is* *also * *deeply
embarrassing internationally:*
The European Union has nominated it for a
global ban under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.
Korea has twice now rejected New Zealand
beef because of illegal residues of endosulfan, and we stand to lose our
valuable exports markets from such contamination.
55 other countries are managing their
agriculture and sports fields without endosulfan why cant New Zealand?
It is not possible to continue
marketing New Zealand as clean, green, natural and pure when we are one
of the few remaining countries to continue using this dirty pesticide
that keeps on turning up in our food with monotonous regularity 50% of
tomatoes in the last Total Diet Survey contained endosulfan. Since
then the New Zealand Food Safety Authority has found endosulfan residues
on lettuce, courgettes and strawberries.
New Zealands failure to take
responsibility for contributing to global pollution undermines all
our claims to be a clean, green, sustainable nation.
ERMA's reassessment can be found at
http://www.ermanz.govt.nz/search/registers.html?id=23290
<http://www3.greens.org.nz/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3326&qid=80038>
More information on endosulfan can be found here
<http://www3.greens.org.nz/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3327&qid=80038>
*Please write now to the Minister this is URGENT.*
*There are less than 2 weeks remaining for the Minister to over-ride the
ERMA decision.*
*/Sue Kedgley MP/*
Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
Email:_ <email obscured>.nz_
<mailto:sue.kedgley@parliament.govt.nz> _
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From:
Andrew Groom
Date:
Jul 14 21:26 UTC
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Hi Gabriella,
Yes, it's an important issue, but it's not specific to Canterbury. Any
chance you can find specific suppliers or uses of it in Canterbury ?
Otherwise, please lets keep this forum focused on Canterbury issues.
Thanks.
Andrew Groom
Forum Manager
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 08:40 +1200, Gabriella Turek wrote:
> I apologize for the forwarding, but I think this is an important issue
> that affects us all. Coming from the US where one knows there's all
> sort of nasty stuff in the food, I was surprised to find out that all is
> not well here in NZ either.
> Gaby
From:
Brian Sandle
Date:
Jul 15 01:59 UTC
Short link
andrew wrote:
> Hi Gabriella,
>
> Yes, it's an important issue, but it's not specific to Canterbury. Any
> chance you can find specific suppliers or uses of it in Canterbury ?
> Otherwise, please lets keep this forum focused on Canterbury issues.
> Thanks.
>
> Andrew Groom
> Forum Manager
>
> On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 08:40 +1200, Gabriella Turek wrote:
>
>> I apologize for the forwarding, but I think this is an important issue
>> that affects us all. Coming from the US where one knows there's all
>> sort of nasty stuff in the food, I was surprised to find out that all is
>> not well here in NZ either.
>> Gaby
>>
Just testing you here is an example of statistical analysis about it
being done by a Canterbury person. Does that count?
But it is mentioned quite a bit on a google search including Canterbury.
1997
http://www.nzpps.org/journal/50/nzpp50_405.pdf
http://www.organicnz.org/u/80/f/Campaigns/Endosulfan-Report-PANAP-June08.pdf
gives an overview.
and
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/OCBBCI.php
"In addition, pest management costs were greater for Bt farmers who had
to use pesticides such as Monocrotophos, Confidor, Tracer, Avaunt,
Endosulfan, acephate, demethoate, imidacloprid, quinalphos,
chlorpyriphos, cypermethrin /etc /. to manage a variety of pests
including bollworms for which Bt toxin is supposed to be specific [1]. "
Bt crops are genetically modified to express Bt toxin, but the
pesticides are still needed, maybe more.
So it possible that ERMA will be thinking ahead to genetically modified
crop release and retaining endosulfan to go with them.
We have to resist GM crops here. In Canterbury we already have an
application before ERMA for field testing GM onions, garlic, leeks. So
far it is only herbicide resistance in them I think, but a similar
principle applies.
It is quite hard keeping absolutely specific to Canterbury. For example
our language is mostly non-specific to Canterbury.
From:
Kerry McK
Date:
Sep 04 21:40 UTC
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TY very much Gabriella. I abhor strong chemicals put next to my food.
I'm sure it is one of the things that gives us weird cancers.
I have emailed Sue and asked for a link directly to Trevor Mallard, so i
can CC to both at the same time.
TY very much for letting me know and sorry i was so tardy in reading
your thread. If it had Insecticide in the subject line i would have
probably read it sooner.
Feel free to pass more onto me in this vein, directly to my email.
Kerry McKenna
Gabriella Turek wrote:
> I apologize for the forwarding, but I think this is an important issue
> that affects us all. Coming from the US where one knows there's all
> sort of nasty stuff in the food, I was surprised to find out that all is
> not well here in NZ either.
> Gaby
>
> -------- Original Message --------
>
> *ACTION ALERT*
> *PLEASE HELP US TO GET RID OF THE HIGHLY TOXIC INSECTICIDE ENDOSULFAN,
> WHICH HAS BEEN BANNED IN 55 COUNTRIES.*
> ERMA is currently reassessing New Zealand's use of the highly toxic and
> persistent insecticide endosulfan and incredibly, they are proposing
> to allow its continued use on our fruit and vegetables and on sports
> fields, bowling greens, parks and airports.
> Endosulfan is one of the worst pesticides still used in New Zealand, in
> terms of its toxicity, chronic effects and environmental pollution. It
> is an old-style organochlorine related to DDT, which is why 55 countries
> have already banned it. *We urge you to take a moment and write/email
> the Minister for the Environment, Trevor Mallard, asking him to
> overturn ERMA's proposed decision and ban this controversial insecticide.*
> The Minister has the powers to do this under section 68 of the Hazardous
> Substances and New Organisms Act which allow him to call in the
> application if the decision will have significant economic,
> environmental, international or health effects. ERMAs decision will
> have all of those.
> Points to make in your submission:
> Endosulfan has caused birth defects,
> epilepsy, congenital intellectual impairment, cancer and devastating
> chronic suffering in thousands of people who have been exposed to it
> directly or by spray drift or contaminated water.
> At very low levels of exposure
> it can cause human breast cancer cells to grow and so is a real risk for
> breast cancer.
> It is a risk factor for Parkinsons Disease.
> It is persistent and bioaccumulative and
> it contaminates air, rain, snow, water, soil, and biota, including tree
> bark around the world including the Arctic, Antarctica and Mt
> Everest. ERMA has also acknowledged that it probably contaminates our
> mountains such as Mt Taranaki, Mt Ruapehu etc, as a result of our use of
> this insecticide.
> It contaminates marine mammals such as
> whales and seals and levels are increasing.
> Because 60-70% of endosulfan evaporates
> after use, any use of it here will contribute to global contamination.
> It is ubiquitous in the human food chain
> and in human bodies.
> It is passed across the placenta to the
> unborn infant and in breast milk to the newborn.
> ERMAs decision has *not considered *any of these points even though the
> information was available to them, so they cannot be relied on to make
> the right decision for New Zealand*.*
> *New Zealand**'s continued use of endosulfan is* *also * *deeply
> embarrassing internationally:*
> The European Union has nominated it for a
> global ban under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.
> Korea has twice now rejected New Zealand
> beef because of illegal residues of endosulfan, and we stand to lose our
> valuable exports markets from such contamination.
> 55 other countries are managing their
> agriculture and sports fields without endosulfan why cant New Zealand?
> It is not possible to continue
> marketing New Zealand as clean, green, natural and pure when we are one
> of the few remaining countries to continue using this dirty pesticide
> that keeps on turning up in our food with monotonous regularity 50% of
> tomatoes in the last Total Diet Survey contained endosulfan. Since
> then the New Zealand Food Safety Authority has found endosulfan residues
> on lettuce, courgettes and strawberries.
> New Zealands failure to take
> responsibility for contributing to global pollution undermines all
> our claims to be a clean, green, sustainable nation.
>
> ERMA's reassessment can be found at
> http://www.ermanz.govt.nz/search/registers.html?id=23290
>
<http://www3.greens.org.nz/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3326&qid=80038>
>
> More information on endosulfan can be found here
>
<http://www3.greens.org.nz/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=3327&qid=80038>
> *Please write now to the Minister this is URGENT.*
> *There are less than 2 weeks remaining for the Minister to over-ride the
> ERMA decision.*
> */Sue Kedgley MP/*
> Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
> Email:_ <email obscured>.nz_
> <mailto:sue.kedgley@parliament.govt.nz> _
>
>
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>
> Gaby Turek
> Heathcote Valley, Christchurch
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