Unaddressed Concerns Over a Pesticide - Truthdig: In 2006, more than 50 scientists and doctors—five nobel laureates among them—wrote an urgent letter to the EPA warning of the dangers of the pesticide methyl iodide. In 2007, the agency approved its use.
According to Pesticide Action Network, a group opposed to the use of methyl iodide, exposure to the substance “causes late term miscarriages, contaminates groundwater and is so reliably carcinogenic that it’s used to create cancer cells in laboratories,” posing a serious threat to farmworkers and those who live near treated fields.
