PESTICIDE INFORMATION _ S|

2,4—D - referred to as - "female hormone chemical" is the major herbicide
used in Canada. It is used wherever weeds such as dandelions are con-
trolled in lawns, cereal crops, cardens, etc. "Weed & Peed", "Killex"
are the most common formulations.

Almost 20 years age Rachel Carson in her book "Silent Spring" warned:
"Fate-soluble pesticides such as 2,4-D store in individual cells to inter-
fere with vital and necessary functions of enersy production. They bit
the liver and the central nervous system as well as being agents of
chromosome damage."

World Health Organization (WHO) state that cellular camage is done at

the moment the chemical is taken in and further damage is done to the

cell with every exposure. There is NO SAFE LEVEL OF A CARCINCCEN beenuse -
is the damace that is cumllative.

Small chronic doses are, aS a rule, more dangercus than targe doses as
the body hes 4 tendency tc store the small doses whereas it will sry
(providing the liver is healthy) to expel the large doses,

xesearch done by the Dept. of Agricultural Chemistry, Cregon Etate Uni,
Corvallis, Oregon sheowed:. Nadloactivity was found in all orgrns and
vissues examined and that. 2,4-D affected the Thyroid. It was found in
the blood, liver, kicney, heart, lungs, Spleen, muscle, brain, testicles,
urogenital organ, Stomach, and intestine when fed to rats.

Dept. of Medicine, Uni. of Oulu, & Dept. of
found Aplastic Ansemia afte sxposure to 2,4
«he weed killer.

Inst. of Pathophysiology, Mecical Uni. Hucapest & Naticnal Inst. for
Public Health (1958) found 2,4-D had an e: d thyreid.

ng Beach, Calif. & Uni.
presented the evidenc:

Radioisotope moaeoee] U.S. Veterans Ho L
irculating thyroid hormone,

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of California Medica School, Los Angel fr
‘Tegarding the nature of the effect of 2 c

N. P. Goldstein, M.D., Peter H. Jones, M.R.C.S. L-R.C.P. (2959) revert
on neurological problems with recovery incomrlete even after =: ame

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years. Weakness and nain in both legs causing inability te walt:
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loss of sesation in both intestine and bladder. Severe sensery ¢
symptoms began some hours after the use of 2,4-D and progressed
pain and paralysis were Severe. They warned that there is NO 107
or other SFECIFIC TREATMENT for 2,4-L poisoning.

Paris Acedemy of Science (1972) sprayed a commercial crade of

on pheasant, red patricdes eray nartricse, cuail. and duck eggs
incubation. The Surviving cmbrycs had Sericus 2uzual malforc: it
as well as total sterility or very reducee fertility. In 50 «ar
cases the genital tract of the male resembled that ef a norm:

ir other words there was 2 cex change with the male Changed <0

In the majority of cafes, the surviving embryos suffered Mares s
total paralysis as well aS a series of nuemalics such ac cert: [.
vertebrae being fused whieh meant the cinbryo could not open ti.
at the moment of hatebing. The stucy concluded that is is a Ces

of feminization or physiological cactraticn.

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