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- Hello Jeff,
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- When we use toxic chemicals, like malathion which breaks
down to poisonous malaxon in the environment, we have a responsibility
to handle and store these chemicals safely. There is NO EXCUSE for storing
these pesticides in a school.
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- I wonder how many schools around the Country are storing
grounds for pesticides? Perhpas the mystery illness at Sienna College
is the result of a similiar situation.
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- Here is the Daily News report of the school mishap. Also
a trailer which tells of an incident in Mexico. We, the human race, need
to be accountable to the environment.
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- Patty
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- 13 Sickened In Classroom Pesticide Spill
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- By Alison Gendar and Bill Huthcinson
NY Daily News Staff Writers
9-15-00
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- At least 10 second-graders, their teacher and two other
adults became ill yesterday when a bottle of the pesticide malathion shattered
on the floor of their Brooklyn classroom, authorities said.
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- The spill happened at 10:30 a.m., prompting officials
to evacuate Public School 21 in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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- "The smell went everywhere. It smelled like garbage,"
said Michael Jackson, 7. "We all covered our noses because it really
smelled."
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- The incident occurred when the teacher opened a storage
closet in the school's second-floor classroom and the glass bottle filled
with about 10 ounces of malathion fell off a shelf, said Pam McDonnell,
spokeswoman for the Board of Education.
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- McDonnell said the teacher was splattered by the chemical,
and fumes quickly filled room 211.
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- Several kids vomited.
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- Ten children, the teacher and two other school employees
were taken to Brookdale University Hospital, where they were treated and
released, police said.
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- Three other adults complained of nausea but declined
medical assistance.
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- An investigation was underway to determine how the pesticide
made its way into the classroom.
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- Malathion is a yellow liquid with a skunklike odor. The
city used the chemical last year to combat the West Nile virus but shelved
it this year after it came under federal scrutiny.
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- The Fire Department's hazardous materials team wiped
up yesterday's spill. The Department of Environmental Protection took air
samples, which tested clean.
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- Students were allowed to return to the school yesterday
afternoon but were kept away from the classroom where the pesticide spilled.
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- With Richard Weir and Scott Shifrel _____
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- West Nile Strikes 3 More as Spraying Continues - 9/13/00
City Admits Spray Goof - 9/12/00 Asthma-Like Illness Spurs Spray Probe
- 9/8/00 _____
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- West Nile Pesticide Spill Leaves School Children Gasping
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- By Carl Campanile - NY Post 9-15-00
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- Brooklyn students choked on potentially toxic fumes yesterday
morning after a container of a West Nile virus pesticide banned from schools
cracked open and leaked into their classroom. Sixteen students and staffers
at PS 21 in Bedford-Stuyvesant were overcome with nausea. Most of them
were taken to Brookdale Hospital while the school was evacuated, authorities
said.
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- None was seriously injured.
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- School and law-enforcement authorities are investigating
how the 12-ounce bottle containing malathion ended up in the closet of
the second-floor classroom. The insecticide is banned from school facilities,
said Board of Education spokeswoman Margie Feinberg.
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- The city used the insecticide to help kill West Nile-carrying
mosquitoes last year, but is using other poisons this year after environmentalists
complained about the potential dangers of malathion.
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- Schools Chancellor Harold Levy said he was troubled by
the incident.
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- "It should not have been in the school," he
said. "An investigation is under way to find out how it got there.
It's surprising to discover that a potentially toxic substance is in the
school."
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- Sources yesterday said the insecticide was found in a
teacher's supply closet.
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- Firefighters, emergency medical technicians and the Department
of Environmental Protection rushed to the scene at about 11 a.m.
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- Fire officials were shocked at what they found.
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- "I wouldn't hazard a guess why it was there and
how it got there," said Fire Department spokesman Brian Dixon.
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- "It was a 12-ounce bottle of malathion. About four
ounces of it spilled on the floor," he said.
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- Members of the hazardous-material unit cleaned up the
noxious insecticide by diluting it with water. Fans were also used to get
rid of the smell.
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- Board spokeswoman Margie Feinberg said the students will
use a different classroom today. She also stressed that tests were performed
throughout the rest of the building, which was deemed safe. _____
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- Ten Tons Of Malathion Engulf Mexico City In Cloud
Of Poison
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- From Bettina Albermann <albermann@prodigy.net.mx
To research@chem-tox.com
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- http://aquarius.net/translator.cfm/18140 Tel.
(52) 46 48 19 51
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- Dear Madam or Sir,
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- On Tuesday, September 12, 2000, there was an accident
involving the emission malathion in a factory in the outskirts of Salamanca,
Guanajuato, Mexico. Ten tons of malathion were emitted into the athmosphere,
forming a cloud of a diameter of two miles over the city of Salamanca,
and many peole were intoxicated, vomited, had headches, and their respiratory
tracts were irritated.
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- I also live in the city of Salamanca, but not in the
neighborhoods that had to be evacuated, and I didn't hear of the accident
until the other morning. I stayed inside the house, and, according to some
neighbor, only a faint smell could be noticed at night, even though I didn't
notice anything. But only six blocks away people were vomiting from the
smell of the gas. I am nine weeks pregnant and also have two young children,
two and four years old, and I would appreciate it very much, if you could
inform me about the effects of malathion on pregnant women and their unborn
babies and on young children.
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- The Mexican newspapers really don't say anything except
that the danger is over, but I would like to know if there are any studies
on the effects of malathion on humans. Are there any other precautions
I could still take to detoxify myself?
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- Yours sincerely,
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- Bettina Albermann
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