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Philly firm's Pesticide Biz

by Watchdog | 02.15.2008

Who is told that Philly is home to so many big and bad pestcide manufacturers...or that they are responsible for tobacco pesticide residues in typical cigs?

Pesticide Action Network N. America (PANNA) has sent out info about Philly's own FMC Corp., a huge global firm (mfgr of fluoride, tobacco pesticides, etc.) of which we hear all too little.

Though in the cancer-causing cartel, they don't even sign onto "Race for the Cure" or pink "Breast Cancer Month" etc. to polish their image. It's about NO Image. Under The Radar.

One could fold 1000 dollar bills into little airplanes and sail them from FMC Corporate HQ at 1735 Market Street right over to City Hall...the mayor's office window even. But Nutter would never accept tobacco-pesticide-tainted money under any circumstances...right?

http://www.panna.org/resources/panups/panup_20080214

>>>> Proposed Carbofuran Ban:
During a four-day meeting in early February, a panel of scientific experts reviewed the data underlying the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposed ban on all uses of carbofuran (trade name Furadan), a WWII-era pesticide manufactured by FMC Corporation. The EPA had already banned domestic uses because carbofuran (an N-methyl carbamate insecticide and nematicide) posed unacceptably high risks to birds, wildlife, and humans. In January, the EPA determined that "all products containing carbofuran generally cause unreasonable adverse effects on humans and the environment, and are ineligible for reregistration." In response, FMC provided the EPA's Scientific Advisory Panel with a flood of last-minute data. Natural Resources Defense Council Senior Scientist Jennifer Sass reports that the EPA panel found most of FMC's filings "inadequate, unconvincing, and highly suspect." One panel member even remarked that FMC's misrepresentation of the data was reason enough to reject the appeal. <<<<

PS: FMC's contributions to the Cigarette Cartel are or have been at least these tobacco pesticides noted below, INCLUDING the Carbofuran noted above. Talk about "adverse effects". The corporatocracy, of course, prefers to call many of them "smoking-related diseases". There is no such thing, apparently, of a Corporate Related Disease.

Now-Mayor, Michael "Concerned-about-harms-of-smoking" Nutter, didn't bother FMC (or other locals Rohm/Haas/Dow, or Atofina, or Zeneca, or American Cyanamid, or Dupont) with summonses to explain themselves or their tobacco pesticides at any "smoking" hearings. Bar owners etc are MUCH easier targets.

Clomazone
Endosulfan
Carbofuran
Sulfentrazone

See: http://www.gao.gov/atext/d03485.txt
(this is only about 37 of over 400 USA registered tobacco pesticides.)

PPS: Whether the EPA means by "all Carbofuran uses" that it won't be used on tobacco (where, by inhalation of residues, it may do the most harms) hasn't been made clear. The more who ASK the EPA about this, the better. (Evasive answers ought be collected for publication.)

Then...on to the pesticide/consumer-poisoning liability hearings.



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