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This is not surprising and should have been anticipated. Following the accumulation of some 17000 complaints about organophosphate pesticides like Dursban, Carole Browner's EPA finally withdrew permission for the use of a few members of this most commonly used class to be applied in residences and schools. It was known to damage the central nervous system by suppressing production of an enzyme called acetylcholinesterase, essential to inhibiting nerve cells from continuing to fire after the need ended. Hyperactive nerve cell firing can lead to damage and death for cells.
Pyrethroids replaced this class in many homes, schools and offices. It merely uses another mechanism to damage nerve cells causing hyperactivation, damage and death. The problem remains that applications do not require advance notification to building occupants in most situations. While the organophosphate exposures could be assessed medically through blood and/or urine testing for enzyme suppression and chemical metabolites, our government has failed to make such tests available for the pyrethroids.
Widespread exposure was proven in 2002 by the CDC when 70% of Americans (N=3,000) had those metabolites in their urine. However, only research labs look for such findings. Veterinary labs can test your pets for these chemicals but doctors can't prescribe similar tests for humans. I sought assistance from the EPA and the CDC who informed me they were not required to find or require labs to do such testing. It also appears that cholinesterase enzymes may be elevated from baseline in a protective manner but this has not been yet used as a clinical tool for positive identification in medicine.
The major problem is that these are farm chemicals displaced to indoor settings where they behave differently. There is no 'indoor pest control industry' per se. An effort made to remove neuro-toxic pesticides from school settings has been blocked by the House Agriculture Committee for a decade now although the "School Environment Protection Act" was passed twice by the Senate.
My experiences in examining this problem are written up here: [Link] This is a 'no-brainer' when it comes to legislation. There is no reason to place chemicals that damage brains in buildings meant to develop brain functions.
Our schools.
Barbara Rubin
Former Educator, disabled by Pesticides
www.armchairactivist.us