"The EPA Said No To Propoxur, They Said No To The NPMA, Said NoTo Bob Rosenburg. To Any Person That Would Say Bring Back Propoxur, Or Bring Back DDT, We Say Bring Back The Scientific Records Of Both To Understand That These Dangerous Neuro Toxic Synthetic Agents Will Only Make Bed Bugs More Powerful And Difficult To Kill While These Environmental Poisons Will Be Absorbed By Your Children, Your Pets And Your Premise." Doc Ben
We Won!
Wisely, the EPA won’t allow Ohio to use Propoxur. Thanks to our CedarCide family of Pest Control Operators who chimed in at the request of Bob Rosenburg of the NPMA. "Bob, why would we bring back a deadly “peoplecide”, while we can easily whip bed bugs, eggs and larvae using the non toxic bed bug killer; Best Yet?"
We need to move away from synthetic chemical pest control products rather than go deeper into the woods of continued pesticide contamination. We thank all our PCO's for your support and hope we can count on your voice of reason, insight and experience in future show-downs.
-Doc Ben
Excepts from NPMA's warning Letter to CedarCide.Com written by Bob Rosenburg-
"As you know, this is not the first time that CedarCide has publicly condemned other products in the marketplace. The approach is reprehensible and the industry has come to expect such behavior. There has, in fact, been a pattern of CedarCide promoting its products by suggesting that other products used by PMPs pose unacceptable health risks. Your website and press releases are replete with dozens of examples (http://www.CedarCidestore.com/page/page/3365525.htm).
Maybe you are unaware of this, but NPMA has a long record of promoting the use of reduced risk products, such as promoting legislation and regulations that exempt 25(b) products from notification and posting requirements. We often push such initiatives against the wishes of state regulatory officials and other industry stakeholders, who question the efficacy and safety of yours and other 25(b) products and who also express concern about the allergenic nature of the active ingredients. Your actions make it much more difficult to pursue similar policies in the future.
I strongly urge you to reconsider the wisdom of doing the kind of industry-bashing that you did in this email and discontinue issuing other inflammatory and false and misleading communications like this. I think it is doubtful that many PMPs will continue to purchase products from a company that chooses to falsely denigrate its customers and the products they use.."
Our response to Bob-
Dear Mr. Rosenburg-
We will continue with great resolve to publicly condemn and vigorously bash this industry or any other of the great polluters that offer reprehensible products like Propoxur. Why, because Propoxur, like so many products used by PMPs do pose unacceptable health risks to people and pets. We strongly disagree with you and your organization shilling for big chemical companies, shame on you...
See the Hudson-Hub Times article below-
EPA won't allow Ohio to use Propoxur.
June 20, 2010
Associated Press
Columbus -- State officials want permission to use an industrial pesticide to fight bloodthirsty bedbugs plaguing homes, but the federal government has said no -- at least for now.
In a letter earlier this month to Gov. Ted Strickland, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson wrote that the pesticide could pose health risks for children, harming their nervous systems.
The state asked the EPA in November for an exemption to allow Propoxur, currently used in commercial buildings, on crops and in pet collars, to be applied in bedbug-ridden homes. Though the government's response stops short of an official denial, it's disappointing, said Kaleigh Frazier, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Agriculture.
"We will remain in constant communication with U.S. EPA as well as our local partners ... to see if there is anything we can do at the department to help move this request along," Frazier said June 15.
While the tiny insects are not known to carry any diseases, bedbug bites leave behind itchy red bumps.
A report issued in May by the Ohio Bed Bug Workgroup, a 40-member task force of experts assembled by the state Health Department, said problems with the pests have been most widely reported in homes, apartments, hotels and nursing homes. Recent reports have had bedbugs spreading to movie theaters and taxi cabs, Frazier said.
Bedbugs are resistant to most of the pesticides currently available, so not having Propoxur as a weapon is a setback, said Susan Jones, an Ohio State University entomologist and a member of the workgroup.
"It is very much a blow, because we don't really have products that are knocking down the bedbugs very well," Jones said.
Propoxur, which can cause nausea and vomiting if swallowed, was removed from home use in the 1990s. But Jones said the EPA likely overestimated the risk of exposure to children and said an effort was under way to provide the agency with information about how much of the pesticide would become airborne if applied in homes.
Click Here to Read the Beyondpesticides.com Story From June 11th 2010.
Click Here For Link to Propoxur Pesticide Information Profile-
The EPA Said No To Propoxur in Ohio, Sayiny No To The NPMA, Saying No To Bob Rosenburg Who Enjoys Super Shill Status With The Poison Pedaling Petro Chemical Pesticide Companies. Wake Up, Bringing Back Propoxur Or Worse DDT Is At Best Ignorant .
