Re: Pesticides poison farmworkers

August 21, 2002

Hello Kimi ,

Please send me a copy of the report at the address below. Sincerely,

Azevedo, Ph.D Clinical Trials Researcher Stanford University Medical Center Department of Urology 300 Pasteur Drive Stanford, CA 94305 phone: (650) 723 3532 fax: (650) 723 0765 or 650 724 0084 Email: k_azevedo@...

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Hello Migrant Health List, Colorado Legal Services' Casillas Pesticide Action Project recently completed and released a report on the risks of pesticide poisoning to Colorado farm workers. The report is entitled "Hidden Costs: Farm Workers Sacrifice Their Health To Put Food On Our Tables." Monday's Denver Post (8/19) has a front page story about the report, as well as interviews with and photos of farm workers who were recently exposed to pesticide drift in western Colorado. You can look at the story online at http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E53%257E805278%257E,00.html

If you would like a copy of the report, please email me at kjackson@... or call me at (970) 353-7554. I can email or mail it to you. Also, the project is very short on funding, so if you have any suggestions on where we could get more, please let me know!

Kimi Casillas Pesticide Action Project Colorado Legal Services, Migrant Farm Worker Division 800 8th Ave., Suite 202 Greeley, CO 80631 (970) 353-7554 fax (970) 353-7557 kjackson@...

Here are a few paragraphs from the Denver Post article:

Report: Farmworkers plagued by pesticides

Legal aid group alleges laws violated

By Cornelius

Denver Post Staff Writer

Monday, August 19, 2002 - The farmworkers said they knew they had breathed

poison moments after a crop-duster buzzed nearby, spraying a field of sweet

corn with pesticides to kill mites and worms.

Most of the 20 migrant farmworkers, in an adjacent lettuce field in Olathe,

said they felt sick immediately: They gasped for breath, had pounding

headaches, irritated eyes and swollen, numb tongues. Some vomited as a cloud

of white chemicals settled on fields around them.

The farmworkers in the western Colorado community said they left the lettuce

field when sprayed, but a foreman ordered them to continue working, saying

the crop-duster had released a harmless solution of soap and water.

A new study by Colorado Legal Services, the first of its kind in the Rocky

Mountain region, says such migrant workers at farms statewide are regularly

exposed to hazardous pesticides in violation of federal laws.

The company that hired the workers for the Olathe farm and the farmer whose

land they were working have denied any role in making the workers sick.

(please see the Denver Post web page for the rest of the story)

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August 21, 2002

,

I am attaching the report in Microsoft Word, and also dropping a copy in the mail for you. Thank you for your interest.

Kimi

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