CONTENTS Cohen, Jerry, general counsel, United Farm Workers Organizing Com- Page Johnson, C. C., Chief, Consumer Protection and Environmental Health, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; accompanied by Dr. Samuel Simmons, Director, Division of Community Studies, Office of Product Safety, Food and Drug Administration, Atlanta, Ga.; Dr. William Durham, Director, Primate Research Branch, Division of Pesticides, Food and Drug Administration, Perrine, Fla.; and Reo Duggan, Deputy Associate Commissioner for Compliance, Food and Creuziger, Charles M., president, Vegetable Growers Association of America, Sturtevant, Wis., before a committee of the Wisconsin State Legislature, prepared statement.. Gordon, Jerome B., president, Delphic Systems Research Corp., prepared Johnson, C. C., Chief, Consumer Protection and Environmental Health, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; accompanied by Dr. Samuel Simmons, Director, Division of Community Studies, Office of Product Safety, Food and Drug Administration, Atlanta, Ga.; Dr. William Durham, Director, Primate Research Branch, Division of Pesticides, Food and Drug Administration, Perrine, Fla.; and Reo Duggan, Deputy Associate Commissioner for Compliance, Food and "Agriculture and the Child Labor Requirements Under the Fair Labor Standards Act As Amended in 1966," by the U.S. Depart- ment of Labor, Child Labor Bulletin No. 102 (Revised).. Allegation by Grape Boycott Activists branded "Untrue and Irre- Restrict Its Use?", from the National Journal, September 29, "California Grapes 'Safe' Says Official," from the Seattle Times, "Characteristics of Pesticide Poisoning in South Texas," reprinted from Texas Medicine, September 1968, volume 64. "Compromise on Banning DDT Agreed to by Senate Group," by "DDT Peril Seen in Mother's Milk," from the Washington Post, 3091 VI "DDT Termed Peril to the Sex Organs," from the New York Times, Page Excerpts from testimony of selected witnesses concerning occupational diseases attributed to pesticides and other agricultural chemicals in "Exposure of Workers to Pesticides," by Homer R. Wolfe, B.S.; William F. Durham, Ph. D.; and John F. Armstrong, B.S., Wenatchee, Wash., from the Archives of Environmental Health, April 1967, volume 14, copyright 1967, American Medical Asso- "Fire Prevention Code," recommended by the American Insurance Association, Engineering and Safety Department, New York, N.Y., "Grape Growers Get Okay To Use the Sodium Arsenate," from the 3097 "How Poisonous Are Pesticides?", by L. M. Vasvary and Fred C. 3325 "Michigan Act to Ban DDT Sales," from the San Francisco Chronicle, 3093 "Needed: Pesticide Control Review," from the Los Angeles Times, 3085 New Pesticide Safety Posters Can Be Read by Illiterates--- "New U.S. Ban on the Use of Pesticides," from the San Francisco 3093 "Occupational Disease in California Attributed to Pesticides and "Occupational Disease of Farm Workers," by Irma West, M.D., "Parathion Residues as a Cause of Poisoning in Crop Workers," Griffith "Parathion Residue Poisoning Among Orchard Workers," from the "Pesticide-Induced Illness-Public Health Aspects of Diagnosis and Treatment," by Irma West, M.D., Berkeley, Calif... "Pesticide Laws and Legal Implications of Pesticide Use," excerpt from Pesticides Program Training Guide, U.S. Department of Health, "Pesticide Review 1968," from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 3117 3124 3342 3329 Programs Provided by Department of HEW and Consumer Protection 3102 Proposed Agreement Between UFWOC, Thomas Griffin, Atwood 3041 "Report on Pesticides and Related Activities-1968 Abstracts," U.S. 3253 3095 "Scientists Ask Ban on Dangerous Chemical Warning," by Charles 3086 "State Will Ban Home Usage of DDT and DDD," by Jerry Gillam, 3092 "Suits Asks Ban on DDT in California, Crop Confiscation," by 3084 Articles, publications, etc.-Continued "Sweden's Ban on DDT," from the San Francisco Chronicle, April "The California Pesticide Regulatory Program," by A. B. Lemmon.. "The Farm Workers' Power Plea," from the San Francisco Chronicle, "The Health of the Migrant Worker," by J. Robert Lindsay, M.D., "The Insecticide Crisis," by Robert van der Bosch, Department of "The Use of Agricultural Chemicals," by Irma West, M.D., Berkeley, Page 3094 3227 3237 3094 3270 3306 UFWOC Pesticide Presentation by United Farm Workers Organizing 3239 3298 "The War That Never Ends," from the Office of Information, U.S. Department of Agriculture, September 1966-- 3173 3275 3328 3096 3088 3267 3201 "Warning Concerning Out-of-Date Sources of Pesticide Information," "Wisconsin Hearing on Bid To Ban DDT Could Affect Future of All Work Injuries in California Agriculture, 1966__. Charts: Pesticides Sales Will Top $3 Billion by 1975............. Communications to: Bozick, Mike, chairman, Desert Grape Growers League, Richard Chertkov, Boren, Counsel, Subcommittee on Migratory Labor, U.S. Farkas, Eugene M., Special Reports Division, Office of Informa- Gibbs, L. C., Coordinator, Agricultural Chemicals Program, Public Health Service, Health Services and Mental Health 3043 3252 3275 3266 Cohen, Jerome, Esq., Delano, Calif., from Stephen E. Wall, Wall & 3042 Fielder, Jerry W., director, California Department of Agriculture, Sacramento, Calif., from: Hon. Walter F. Mondale, a U.S. Senator from the State of Minnesota, chairman, Subcommittee on Migratory Labor, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., September 4, 1969... Mondale, Hon. Walter F., a U.S. Senator from the State of Minnesota, chairman, Subcommittee on Migratory Labor, Washington, D.C., from: 3235 Bryk, Oliver, Bethesda, Md., August 1, 1969_ 3311 Creuziger, Charles M., president, Vegetable Growers Association Communications to-Continued Mondale, Hon. Walter F., a U.S. Senator from the State of Minnesota, Johnson, Charles C., Jr., Assistant Surgeon General Adminis- July 30, 1969_. August 29, 1969. Swankin, David A., Director, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau Page 3131 3195 of Standards, Washington, D.C., July 8, 1969, with enclosures.. 3144 Wall, Stephen, Esq., Bakersfield, Calif., from Jerome Cohen, Delano, Calif.: January 7, 1969 (with enclosure). Memorandum to: Chertkov, Boren, staff, Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor, Coordinator for Rural and Migrant Health, from Paul Agnano, Public Selected tables: 3040 3043 3274 3266 3078 List of commodities seized because of pesticide contamination: Fiscal 3142 Pesticide accidents investigated, 1963-66__ 3168 3045 3102 Reports of occupational disease among agricultural workers attributed 3146 3039 |