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Re: diazinon



shez@ottawa.rtc.sc.ti.com (Don Shesnicky) wrote:
>
>Michele
>
>Somehow Lycos returned a link to your posting on diazinon. I have
>an infestation of carpenter ants and this is the recommended
>treatment. I'd like to track down info on it. Do you have some
>pointers to WWW pages.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Don 
>
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>I wanted to share with anyone who might be interested that I did
>some on-line searching this week on the acute/chronic, toxicological,
>and overexposure health efffects of the organophosphate pesticide
>diazinon.  As you may know, manufacturers of pesticides aren't
>required to make this information available, so it can take a little


In Canada at least the manufacturers are required to produce Material 
Saftey Data Sheets (MSDS's) for all products (I'm pretty sure this is 
also true in the United States). Any farm outlet that carries any of 
these chemicals are required to have a copy available to their employees 
and should be willing to give you a copy.


>digging.  There are quite a few Web sites I was surprised and
>pleased to find. I offer this mainly to those of
>you who aren't specialists (you know more about it than me) but
>who might be or know folks who have reason to need access to
>this information, as for activist or advocacy uses.
>
>Contact me at this address.  It may take me a few weeks to 
>piece it together, but I'll create a small mailing list of 
>interested folks and share what I learned.
>
>Does anyone know if the National Center for Environmental
>Health Strategies in Vorhees NJ is on-line?
>
>Peace
>Michele
>
>"Praise takes all of you.  Give it all away.  Hold nothing
>back."  --Onye Onyemaechi
>