by AdamL
You would think we had enough toxic chemicals flowing into our environment these days. To my amazement, California is poised to approve the use of methyl iodide as a pesticide, a chemical so toxic that merely breathing it can cause lung, liver, kidney and central nervous system damage. The San Francisco Chronicle has an article that has researchers lining up against this toxic chemical. Susan Kegley, a consulting scientist for Pesticide Action Network, a nonprofit public interest group in San Francisco, said approving methyl iodide would be a flirtation with disaster no matter how many safeguards are in place. "This stuff just kills everything," said Kegley, a chemist, who pointed out that even low doses have caused neurological damage and fetal death in laboratory animals. "It is a known carcinogen." That doesn't sound like the sort of thing you want in your strawberry jam.
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