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        Subject:     Do you realize how far your "registered" POISONS drift??????
            Date:     Tue, 4 Apr 2003
           From:     Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization:     Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)

To:     Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
          Director, State of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation 

cc:    Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov

From the Seattle P-I:

"The weather systems that sweep in from the Pacific each winter and spring appear to be carrying pesticides and other chemicals long ago banned in the United States and Canada but still used overseas, say Shaw and other scientists attending a conference on the health of Puget Sound and its Canadian counterpart, the Georgia Strait.

When Shaw went looking for pollutants in the fish of British Columbia, one of the sites he chose was so far up in remote mountainous country that he had to fly in the measuring equipment. Yet glacier-fed Garibaldi Lake showed some of the highest contamination levels.

Studies are under way to show whether the same thing is happening in Washington and elsewhere across the American West. Scientists are pretty sure the story is the same on the other side of the border."


http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/115171_sound01.shtml

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