Introduction and Outreach Proposals

[Susan Jannarone <jannarone@aol.com>]

Good afternoon. My name is Susan Jannarone and I live at 3604 Winewood Place in Colleyville, Texas 76034. My interest in EPA activity occurs as a consequence of a pesticide exposure in 1986 in Farmington, Connecticut. I was told that I was exposed to aldicarb by the ChemLawn applicator. Because there was no policy in place at the time, the chemical company simply lied to me regarding cholinesterase inhibition and my injuries. Because I am again living in a situation in which pesticide spraying will be employed, the internet discussion finds me on my way out, for the next three to five months in which I cannot inhabit my own home due to neighborhood spraying. I urge readers to go to the following URL and read about the interest the chemical industry has taken in "my illness" at http://www.mindfully.org/Health/MCS-Under-Siege.htm. I can usually be reached at 817-354-6191. Over the next months I may be found at 828-724-4221. I have been able to obtain an attorney who ordered tests for me developed during the Gulf War Illness investigations. I have had blood sent to study my PON-1 status (low) and I have had OPIDN testing as well. Currently a network of individuals injured by chlordane, heptachlor, dursban, diazanon, and the various toxic solvent carriers of those pesticides have organized into a national network. We remain nameless purposely. Individuals who wish to inquire about our activities may do so by contacting jannarone@aol.com, or pace@mcdowell.main.nc.us. No industry reps need contact those email addresses or phone numbers.

My goal in ongoing participation with the EPA is to state that individuals who have been injured by toxic synthetic chemicals live in large numbers in the U.S. Chemical industry documents such as the Chemical Manufacturer's Association, Briefing Paper on Environmental Illness reveal the major chemical companies in the U.S. as they set out a PR campaign to exclude pesticide injured individuals from mainstream medicine, thereby causing those individuals to fail to get recogniton that might lead to lawsuits. The report can be purchased by contacting CIIN (Chemical Injury Information Network) P.O. Box 301, White Sulfur Springs, MT 59645 or a mere $4. The organization can provide many industry documents and research on individual pesticides. All work is peer-reviewed.

I am collecting data in the form of inside industry documents. Any such documents should be sent to me at the address above, incidentally the same address that TrueGreen ChemLawn used when it threatened to "sue me." So far no lawsuit.

I believe that Americans need to begin to recognize that individual variations in humans naturally result in pesticide exposed individuals who possess relatively inefficient detoxification mechanisms as leveled by paraoxonase, chloropyrifos oxonase, diazinoxononase, butylcholinesterand and perhaps glutathione-transferase, in the example of OP's. Also, Battel Institute is investigating immune responses to pesticides. Various symposiums are upcoming that allow researchers to present their findings, despite industry intervention. The EPA may find ways in which to identify populations who are already injured and who require pesticide-free living areas. Currently contacts to many organizations can be made to further these activities. Susan Jannarone