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Lawsuit targets pesticide
Published 12:00 am PDT Friday, July 25, 2008
Story appeared in BUSINESS section, Page D1
A coalition of farmworker, public health and environmental groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday in an attempt to stop farmers from using endosulfan, a pesticide banned in the European Union and several other countries.
Endosulfan has been used in the United States since the 1950s. Exposure to the chemical has been linked to a variety of reproductive disorders in humans.
The use of endosulfan in California has dropped by about 75 percent since the early 1990s, according to the Department of Pesticide Regulation. But it still is sprayed on roughly 90,000 acres annually.
In California, endosulfan is used to kill bugs chiefly on lettuce, cotton, alfalfa, processing tomatoes and melons.
– Jim Downing
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