EPA Bans Deadly Carbofuran
Category: carbofuran | Date: May 12 2009 | By: Martin Odino
Hi readers. Apparently the statement of withdrawal of Furadan by FMC from Kenya is not enough. Not when there is no public announcement by the manufacturer on the withdrawal from the Eastern African States-Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
In Kenya, as at yesterday 11/05/2009, the pesticide is found in open display in agrovets located hardly 20 miles from JUANCO’s premises, the local distributor and organization appointed by FMC to execute the local buy back of furadan. It is painfully ironical that the pesticide has been reclaimed in regions half the country away but is still found in what appears to be more than modest supplies in the neighbourhood of JUANCO. Worse is the fact that in this region, where the pesticide continues to be in supply, Kiserian, is in Kajiado District where we have had some of the cases of predator poisoning, inclusive of lions and hyenas by the same reported from.
As a matter of fact, even with 22 withdrawals of the pesticides’ uses in the USA by FMC, these were never sufficient! Furadan is therefore being banned by EPA in the US, being behind the deaths of millions of birds. Still, it is a dietery risk to humans, especially children.Read about the revocation at EPA’s site, Carbofuran Pesticide Residues in Food Revoked.
It is sad that Kenya remains a living practical example of continued bird and other willife poisoning from furadan and the effects on humans still remain enshrouded in lack of scientific expose’.
With all good intent, I feel Pesticide Control Products Board (PCPB)and Agrochemical Association of Kenya (AAK) ought to consider the significance of EPA’s move in their sound judgement as concerns furadan’s local regulation. Clearly all is not well with this deadly toxic pesticide, FURADAN.
Tags: Birds, EPA, FMC, furadan, hyena, JUANCO, Lion
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2 Responses to “EPA Bans Deadly Carbofuran”
Dana-Phoenix Arizona, on 12 May 2009
Martin - your quote - “With all good intent, I feel Pesticide Control Products Board (PCPB)and Agrochemical Association of Kenya (AAK) ought to consider the significance of EPA’s move in their sound judgement as concerns furadan’s local regulation. Clearly all is not well with this deadly toxic pesticide, FURADAN.”
Do ya think we can get someone over in East Africa to understand this?
I’ll be in Kenya in September and want to visit one of these agrovets and see if I can buy some Furadan! Just to see how easy it is. In fact, I’d like to buy all they have in some of the stores if possible. If they won’t let me buy - I will have my Kenyan friend buy it. How can we dispose of this stuff safely Martin?
Martin, on 12 May 2009
Hi Dana,thanks for your noble concern. Honestly, the people that matter inclusive of local politicians who acknowledge the menace that is furadan and who even on certain parliamentary sessions have questioned this product’s alleged toxicity soon wane and their zeal dies out leving us wondering what became of the seeming government cooperation.
The Government designate bodies to handle matters involving pesticides, the Pesticide Control Products Board and Agrochemicals Association of Kenya (Crop Life, Kenya)have simply stuck on the defence everytime we tell them that furadan is killing wildlife. Everytime they employ a slogan which they never elaborate that “the evidence is insufficient”.
This explains our approach, to expose reality to everyone, hoping they (PCPB & AAK)can heed us when the conservationists, media and even other nations (the USA, through EPA’s efforts is a shining example) join and rally around us in declaring that furadan is indeed a terrible menace to humans and wildlife. Only then can the crooked laws that grant furadan such wild freedom be bent to ensure the pesticide is dealt with accordingly. Yet this revision of laws as concerns the likes of furadan can only be effected by the supreme PCPB together with AAK, to dictate the ousting of the poison pesticide, hence its safe disposal.
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