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In a Sheet entitled Pesticide Information (Attachment S),
distributed by Thelma MacAdam, it states:

“World Health Organization (WHO) state that cellular damage
1s 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 CARCINOGEN because it is the damage

that is cumulative...

h Center,
»4-D is cancer-

: ilnogenicity

in one mammalian t to all mammals,
including humans, of danger to
humans may not be

The Bionetics Report done for the National Cancer Institute
(1963-68) found that every test on every phenoxy herbicide
Showed cancer as ‘well as tumors of the liver..,,"

Dr, Ruth Shearer, in Literature Reviews of Four Selected Herbicides:
2,4.D, Dichlobenil, Diquat & Endothall (Attachment T), Commissicned
by the City of Seattle, the University of Washington, Washington
State Department of Ecology, and the Municipality of Metropolitan
Seattle (Metre) and published in January 1980, states in her
Preface:

"This report is the product of a comprehensive search of the
world-wide literature relating to possible effects on the public.
health of using the herbicides 2,4-pD, dichlobenil, endothall,
and diquat in the human environment. Sources included

the following:

Computer searches: Medline, Cancerline, Toxline
Northwest Regional Health Sciences Library
University of Washington: libraries: Fisheries,
a Biochemistry, Science Reading Room, and Government
Documents at Suzzalio Library
National. Library of Medicine...

This author's evaluation is presented after each experiment,
followed by the conclusions this author considers justified,
based on the results reported and the adequacy of the methods
used. Studies funded by chemical manufacturers who profit
from sale of the chemicals are SO identified to allow. the
reader to determine the possibility of bias."