EAST BAY PESTICIDE ALERT

Beginning in 2000 East Bay Pesticide Alert began requesting the Environmental Health Department put us on the agenda for the Board of Supervisors' public meetings, to make a presentation about the dangers of toxic pesticide use, myriad alternatives and to demand an end to toxic pesticide use by the county. After many months of unrelenting pressure, in April 2001, East Bay Pesticide Alert members made formal presentations both before the Health Subcommittee of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, and the full Board of Supervisors. This led to the county adopting what they thought was going to be sufficient to safeguard people, a formal IPM, Integrated Pesticide Management, ordinance. Unfortunately, as we had suggested IPM would, it resulted in continued, regular pesticide use by the county. While the board's decision appeared to be well-intentioned, its members had not evaluated the 500-pages of carefully-indexed toxicological profiles and related articles and information we had..

Primary location: Arcata United States