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Home My WebLink About00 - Non-Agenda Item - HandoutNon Toxic IRVINE Received After Agenda Printed April 12, 2016 Non -Agenda Item Stop the Spraying of Toxic Pesticides Over Orange County Please help stop the aerial spraying of harmful, pesticides 300 feet over our homes, parks and schools! On April 21, the OC Vector Control District (OCVCD) board of directors will vote whether to give the OCVCD Manager unilateral decision-making power to authorize aerial spraying of toxic pesticides over OC's homes, parks, schools, playgrounds, sidewalks and farms without even providing notice to residents. The pesticides that OCVCD plans to use are ineffective and harmful, particularly to pregnant women and their unborn children, people with compromised immune systems, chemically sensitive people, young children, and children with respiratory problems, such as asthma. They are also toxic to bees, butterflies, hummingbirds and fish, to name a few. 3 W_aTsYou Can Help: What Is OCVCD Planning To Spray 300 Feet Above OC? Duet, a synthetic pyrethroid pesticide containing Sumithrin, Prallethrin and Piperonyl Butoxide (PBO). Sumithrin and Prallethrin are adulticides patterned after pyrethrum, yet have been chemically engineered to have greater toxicity and longer breakdown times.' Sumithrin and Prallethrin are combined with a synergist chemical, PBO, which increases potency and compromises the human body's ability to detoxify the pesticide. Studies by Columbia and Duke Universities have shown piperonyl butoxide (PBO) impairs brain development in children exposed in utero. 1. Attend the Irvine City Council meeting April 12 and ask OCVCD representative Lynn Schott to vote no and advocate for safe mosquito control alternatives. Tuesday, April 12 at 4pm, 1 Civic Center Plaza, Irvine 2. Attend the OCVCD board meeting, April 21 at 3 p.m., 13001 Garden Grove BI, Garden Grove 3. Sign and share the online petition: Sign and share the petition —go to change.org and search for "Orange County Vector Control" We want OCVCD to use effective tools to fight disease -carrying mosquitos - public education on the importance of emptying standing water and non-toxic mosquito traps which the CDC has reported reduce mosquito -populations -4y 80'x. Non oxic IRVINE: ._ Pesticide Spray Programs Harm People and the Environment: • The U.S. EPA warns that "no pesticide is 100 percent safe."" • In 2011, researchers at Columbia University found that infants whose mothers had been exposed to low levels of PBO in air during pregnancy had impaired cognitive and motor development by the age of three. • Researchers at the Duke University School of Medicine have shown that PBO disrupts a biological signaling system that is "critical in neurological development." The researchers reported in 2012 that the disruption of this critical pathway "may be the molecular basis for profound developmental defects in children exposed in utero to P13_0." • According to a 2006 EPA review, studies with lab animals have linked pyrethroid exposure to damage of the thyroid, liver and nervous system, as well as impairment of behavioral development, changes in the immune system and disruption of reproductive hormones. According to the EPA, these animal studies are relevant to human health because pyrethroids act on functions of the nervous system common to all animals. • A study conducted by the National Research Council found that pregnant women, infants, and children have a greater risk of getting sick from pesticides."' • Adulticides present considerable risk to all living things, and kill beneficial insects and natural mosquitoes predators, iv such as dragonflies, damselflies, and beetles, potentially increasing the number of mosquitoes. • Mosquitoes that survive the spraying may become resistant, longer -lived, more aggressive, and have an increased prevalence of viruses within their bodies. Pesticide Spray Programs Are Ineffective: • The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) state that spraying adulticides, pesticides intended to kill adult mosquitoes, is usually the least efficient mosquito control technique."' • A study from the Harvard School of Public Health found that aerosol plumes fail to contact the target mosquitoes. According to David Pimentel, Ph.D., an entomologist at Cornell University, close to 99.9 % of sprayed chemicals go off into the environment where they can have detrimental effects on public health and ecosystems, leaving 0.10% to actually hit the target pest."' • Adulticides do not restrict or control mosquitoes from continuing to breed. • Mosquitoes develop resistance to chemical pesticides over time, which renders the chemicals ineffective and creates an increased prevalence of viruses such as West Nile within their bodies. • A 2003 study finds that mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus and malaria are resistant to organophosphate and carbamate insecticides. The study shows that the resistance is a result of a single genetic mutation. Gooselin, R. 1984. Clinical Toxicology of Commercial Products. Williams and Wilkins. Baltimore, MD. " U.S. EPA. 2000. Questions and Answers: Pesticides and Mosquito Control. Department of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances. National Research Council. 1993. Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children. National Academy Press. Washington, DC. " Howard, J. et al. 1997. "Impact of Naled (Dibrom 14) on the Mosquito Vectors of Eastern Equine Encephalitis V iris." Journal of the .4merican ,Wosquiot Control Association 13(4): 315-325. Sugg, W., et al. 2001. Overkill: Why Pesticide Spraying May Cause More Harm then Good. Toxics Action Center. West Hartford, CT. " Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2001. Epidemic/Epizootic West Nile Virus in the United States: Revised Guidelines for Surveillance, Prevention, and Control. Atlanta, GA. http://www.ede.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/resources/wnv-guidelines-apr-2001.pdf. - Pimentel, D. 1995. "Amounts of Pesticides Reaching Target Pests: Environmental Impacts and Ethics." Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 8(1):17-29. Sugg, W. et al. 2001. Overkill: Why Pesticide Spraving May Cause More Hann Than Good Toxics Action Center. West Hartford, CT. " Weill, M., et al. 2003. "Insecticide Resistance in Mosquito Vectors." Nature 423(6936): 136-137. Are there comsequnces to mass aerial spraying of a petroleum-based, endocrine -disrupting, toxic pesticide called DUET? FACT: There is NO EPIDEMIC. Less than 100 people in a population of 3,000,000 got a West Nile infection (with 8 possibly related deaths) in 2015. Why are we killing the dog to kill the flea? 2015 Reported West Nile Virus Infections in Orange County (Infections by Type) (as of 111112016) OC Population: 3 million Gender Age Group invertebrates." 2. How will ALL residents with animals Disease Type Total Cases Male Female <18 18-49 50-64 ' 65 West Nile Neuroinvasive Disease 71 47 24 12 35 24 West Nile Fever 21 13 8 1 1 10 9 Asymptomatic 5 3 2 2 2 1 Classification Pending --- --- -- — --- --- -- Total infections 97 63 34 1 15 47 34 Total Deaths 8 1Source: 10CHealthlnfo.com 3/31/16 1. How will ALL residents with fish "This pesticide is HIGHLY TOXIC to aquatic ponds be notified? organisms including fish and aquatic invertebrates." 2. How will ALL residents with animals "Do NOT contaminate pastureland, rangeland, living outside (ex. chickens, turtles, cropland, poultry ranges or potable water horses, rabbits, etc) be notified? supplies with spray drift." 3. How will ALL residents with organic "Do NOT contaminate food, feed or drinking gardens be notified? water. " 4. Why are we purposely killing bees? "This product is HIGHLY TOXIC TO BEES... " S. How will ALL residents including the "Harmful if swallowed. Wash thoroughly with HOMELESS be told to stay inside during soap and water after handling and before the aerial assault? eating, drinking, chewing gum, or using tobacco. Remove and wash contaminated clothing before reuse." Source: DUET product sheet from KellySolutions.com