Pesticide Link to Human Disease

ZERO BUGS B U L L E T I N (04.01.23)

Pesticide Link to Human Disease

Links to human disease

U S government studies including those by the National Institute of Health, Environmental Health Prospective, Occupational Health Safety, Harvard Medical School, University of California Medical Schools at Davis and Los Angeles, Johns Hopkins University and many others, together provide hundreds of academic and science based studies involving thousands of participants all demonstrating cause and effect links between certain common neuro toxin and non-organic pesticides and cataclysmic human disease and suffering.

Most neuro toxins come from four (4) compounds and are marketed under more than fifteen hundred (1,500) brand names. Some of those names are included here. The law requires ‘common names’ to be located on pesticide labels. Every manufacturer is required by law to provide an SDS form, Safety Data Sheet. On the form the reader will find the chemical name. Most internet information sources will provide information that associates the neuro toxin’s trade name to its chemical name.

The “Four Horsemen” to which more than 1,500 will be linked are;

a. Carbamates

b. Organochlorine

c. Organophosphate and

d. Pymethrene (pyrethroids if lab manufactured)

(The EPA required manufacturer’s SDS forms are attached. These are particularly important because each is a description in the manufacturer’s own words….. and what words they are!)

Considered hazardous
Acute toxicity
Do Not breathe
Use only outdoors…. but plenty used inside
Very toxic to aquatic life
Keep people and animals away…. but this isn’t done either
Danger, Poison, corrosive
Fatal if swallowed
Can cause headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, excessive sweating, salivation and tearing, constricted pupils, blurred vision, tightness in chest, weakness, muscle twitching and confusion
Unconsciousness, convulsions, severe respiratory depression and death
Immediate health hazard
Highly flammable
Keep away from food stuffs, beverages and feed
Immediately remove contaminated clothing
Causes damage to organs
Toxic if inhaled
Eye irritation, rinse thoroughly, can cause blindness

Why Now?

Among the many blessings Americans enjoy is a diverse, abundant and inexpensive supply of delicious food. Pesticides have made a lot of this possible. Pesticides in agriculture have been used for nearly 100 years and residential pest control for more than 60 years. So why are so many sicknesses and diseases being linked to these “old friends?”

Over time natural selection has created strains of insects that are now resistant or immune to pesticides at the old levels. To get the same results and to continue to make their products relevant, manufacturers have made their products more powerful and as a result more dangerous to human beings. The “old friends” simply don’t work anymore at the prior levels.

And to What Effect?

At the higher levels of concentration, health issues like autism, kidney, lung, heart and respiratory disease have begun to overtake us. Consider 40 years ago, autism struck only 1 child in 3,000 but today 1 in 54! (Little boys 5 times as often as little girls)

The problem has been magnified because the neuro toxins at the higher doses have been brought directly into our homes because so many neuro toxins are readily available on super market shelves and by the commercial residential pest control service companies.

Consider that the above numbers on the frequency of autism is measured where moms were a mile from the fields where the neuro toxins were being used.

While we can only image the statistics that describes what happens when these same dangerous poisons are brought into our homes, motel and hotel rooms, business and places of worship, all of us can testify to the results we have seen with our own eyes.

Are There Viable Alternatives?

A viable alternative is explained as a pesticide that is 100% non-toxic to human beings, of no harm to the environment and categorized as Generally Regarded As Safe, GRAS, by EPA and considered ORGANIC by the USDA. At the same time the formulas must provide effective pest control at reasonable costs.

YES.

Soybean oil, item 28 on EPA’s GRAS list, formulated with a proprietary process has been shown effective when properly used against a wide variety of insect pests.

First offered in March 2010 as a means of elimination and prevention for bed bugs, research has shown that variations of the original formula are also effective against, carpet beetles, ants, roaches, fleas, ticks, silverfish, millipedes, centipedes, mosquitos and other flying insects and others that are morphologically linked.

A one year field trial was the subject of a December 2012 article appearing in Pest Control Technology magazine. The independent report explained that the test conducted at a four story motor lodge obtained immediate control. Twenty rooms were treated, immediate elimination was obtained and monthly periodic

checks over the next twelve (12) months showed no material re-infestation. In the thirteenth (13th) month, bed bugs released into a room treated twelve (12) month previous, ALL died. (A copy of the article and the monthly audits is attached.)

Mode of Operation

The formula is not a neuro toxin. It acts as an emulsifier and kills by dehydration. This is considered a “mechanical” kill and it is thought highly unlikely (science never likes to say “never”) that resistance or immunity can develop as the kill occurs when an insect “body part” is removed.

The formula emulsifies the insect’s waxy outer layer. Scanning Electron Microscope photos (1500X) show that where ever the formula contacts the waxy outer layer, it has emulsified and evaporated. This requires 25 to 30 seconds. Where the waxy layer has been removed, the insect’s inner fluids evaporate.

The evaporation continues until the insect has become a carbonized shell. It has died by dehydration and because it has died by dehydration no pathogen laden carcass remains.

Human beings and other animals do not have “waxy outer” layers and therefore are not subject to the same effects. Likewise the environment is not damaged as the formulation is organic.

Formulas for certain insects that are more difficult such as bed bugs and cock roaches also have included in their formulas residual materials that encapsulate the active ingredient. When new generations emerge from inaccessible

well-hidden eggs, they crawl. Their motion disturbs the residual leave behind particles. The disturbance causes the encapsulated formula to spill out and when it comes into contact with the nymph or re-introduced adult, the emulsification process begins.

The formulas, while 100% non-toxic, organic and of no harm to the environment have no odor and do not stain.

CAUTION

Caution is advised in that all formulas are not the same and depending on the formula’s intended target, the proper formula should be used. This is particularly so when used to control certain agricultural plants.

Reasonable Action

In medicine the first rule is often said to be, “first do no harm.”

We are not sure that dictum can be employed in the world of pest control. But it is certainly reasonable that before a pest control formula is used, a few minutes should be taken to find out whether or not a non-toxic formula is available.

It is also reasonable to consider cost. Today most alternate formulas are on a par and sometimes lower than neuro toxins.

It should also be remembered that neuro toxins don’t stay where they are used. Whatever a person may be using for their own convenience is going to have an effect on their neighbors. Recall the “Charge Report” https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.1307044

Autism was reported 15 times more likely to affect a pregnant mother when application was 1.5 kilometers away (one mile).

Being informed and education is most often one of the first and most important steps in providing safety to yourself and your family.

For this reason, in addition to checking for viable non-toxic organic alternatives, make it a practice to do an internet search for the SDS form for the products being used in and around your home, place of business and the public places you and your children go.

Ask that non-toxic organic formulas be used where ever possible.

Questions help you. Ask them.

Some Links to Government and Academic Studies:

https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.1307044

“Charge Report” among the most famous as it provided the first well substantiated link between pesticide neuro toxins, naming the Four Horseman, and children’s autism and other sicknesses.

https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l962

2019 follow up study neuro toxins and children’s autism

https://occhealth.msu.edu/files/attachment/122/original/CarbamateMichiganBoth.pdf

These are common names for several organophosphates and carbamates

Recall from the “Four Horsemen” more than fifteen hundred commercial products are made

https://impactful.ninja/worst-pesticides-for-the-environment/#:~:text=The%20worst%20pesticides%20include%20Atrazine,toxicity%20to%20bees%2F%20ecosystem%20services.

“Worst pesticides for the planet” EPA’s list

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2231435/

Tumors and cancer linked to pesticide proximity

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/pesticide-exposure-in-childhood-linked-to-cancer/

Harvard study links pesticides to childhood cancers

https://www.bcpp.org/resource/pesticides-other/