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‘Ty, GRANVILLE FP. KNIGHT, SAY AND DECLARE:

1. My name is Granville F. Knight. I ama physician in private
Practice in the City of Santa Monica, specializing in allergy. I am not
only a member of the Los Angeles County Medical As sociation and a Fellow
of the American College of Allergists, but a member, or Fellow, of eight
. OF nine other allergy societies - Iam also a mémber of the Los Angéles
County Milk Commission and was recently reappointed to a second term.
2 I have been interested in the sunject of pesticide toxicity for
more than 20 years and have clinically investigated many cases of pesticide
poisoning over that period of time. |
3. In 1952, I testified before the DeLaney Commiitee to Investigate
the Use of Chemicals in Foods and Cosmetics. I récently ‘presentec
testimony on the subject of pesticides before the Los Anceles County committees
appointed to look into the subject; the Los Angeles City Council and the
' California State Committee on Environmental Quality. ;

4. I am thoroughly convinced that toxic reactions to pesticides are

much more common than has been suspected in the past. Unfortunately,

except for the reports of a few individuals Such as Morton &. Biskind, M.D. ’

of Westport, Connecticut: the late Francis M. Pottenger, Jr., M.D., of

. ‘Monrovia, California; Malcolm Hargraves, Member Emeritus of the Mayo

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; Clinic and,a few others, the syndrome of pesticide intoxication has received

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Httle Publicity and most scientists are unaware of the toxic potentialities

. 0f'contact with these chlorinated hydrocarbons.

5.° Twenty years ago, I began studying cases of suspected pesticide

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polsoning ~ most of which exhibited symptoms which have become more and

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