CA Dept of Food and Agriculture starts blind guinea pig test over Santa Cruz

I received the following additional e-mail from CDFA at 3PM today

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The California Department of Food and Agriculture would like to issue a reminder to residents in the Santa Cruz County, Prunedale/Royal Oaks and North Salinas/Boronda Light Brown Apple Moth treatment areas that the original pheromone application schedule, November 4-9, has been delayed due to weather. As notices sent to residents indicated, please be aware treatment will continue on succeeding evenings, as necessary, so it is possible that treatments could occur on the evening of November 10, November 11 and beyond, depending on weather conditions. CDFA wishes to thank local residents and communities for their patience and cooperation during this period.

Also, it was reported in the press today that CDFA would not treat on Veterans Day, November 12. Please be aware that if the treatment is not completed by then and the weather is favorable, we would--in fact--treat that evening.

For Friday, November 9, weather permitting, CDFA will continue treatment in Santa Cruz County with pheromone application in portions of zones CASC 103, CASC 104, and CASC 105. Treatment in zones CASC 101, CASC 102 and CASC 106 are 100 percent completed.

Please see th link below for a map with more details about those zones.

Map of Santa Cruz County

http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/PDEP/lbam/pdfs/maps/LBAM_PRE_SANTAcRUZ_A_09_11_07.pdf

Then, if time and weather permit, CDFA would attempt to treat portions of the Prunedale/Royal Oaks area, zones CAPR101 through CAPR103.

Please see the link below for a map with more details about those zones.

Map of Prunedale and Royal Oaks Area

http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/PDEP/lbam/pdfs/maps/LBAM_PRE_PRUNEDALE_A_09_11_07.pdf

Then, if time and weather permit, CDFA would attempt to treat portions of the North Salinas/Boronda area, zones CASA101 through CASA103.

Please see the link below for a map with more details about those zones.

Map of North Salinas and Boronda Area

http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/PDEP/lbam/pdfs/maps/LBAM_PRE_SALINAS_A_09_11_07.pdf


Treatment is scheduled to occur from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. weather permitting. A summary of each night's treatment will be e-mailed to subscribers the following morning.



To reply to this message, email LBAM [at] cdfa.ca.gov

For more information call the toll-free LBAM Program hotline (1-800-491-1899) and visit the Program's web site.

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CDFA e-mail alert recieved 9AM Nov 10:


On the evening of November 9 and in the early morning hours of November 10, CDFA completed Light Brown Apple Moth pheromone treatment in Santa Cruz County.

Zone CASC 1 - 100 percent complete
Zone CASC 2 - 100 percent complete
Zone CASC 3 - 100 percent complete
Zone CASC 4 - 100 percent complete
Zone CASC 5 - 100 percent complete
Zone CASC 6 - 100 percent complete

Please click on the following link for a map with more detail:

Santa Cruz Treatment Area Map

http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/pdep/lbam/pdfs/maps/LBAM_DONE_SANTAcRUZ_A_09_11_07.pdf

Pheromone was also applied in the Prunedale/Royal Oaks treatment area.
Zone CAPR 101 - 36 percent completed
Zone CAPR 102 - No pheromone applied
Zone CAPR 103 - No pheromone applied

Low clouds cut short the application in Prunedale/Royal Oaks.

Please click on the following link for a map with more detail:

Prunedale/Royal Oaks Treatment Area Map

http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/pdep/lbam/pdfs/maps/LBAM_DONE_PRUNEDALE_A_09_11_07.pdf

Pheromone was also applied in the North Salinas/Boronda treatment area.
Zone CASA 101 - 89 percent completed
Zone CASA 102 - 90 percent completed
Zone CASA 103 - 67 percent completed

Please click on the following link for a map with more detail:

North Salinas/Boronda Treatment Area Map

http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/pdep/lbam/pdfs/maps/LBAM_DONE_SALINAS_A_09_11_07.pdf

This evening, November 10, CDFA will attempt to complete applications in Prunedale/Royal Oaks and North Salinas/Boronda, weather permitting. If the applications are not completed tonight, CDFA will attempt applications on succeeding nights.



To reply to this message, email LBAM [at] cdfa.ca.gov

For more information call the toll-free LBAM Program hotline (1-800-491-1899) and visit the Program's web site.

For Saturday, November 10, weather permitting, CDFA will continue with Light Brown Apple Moth pheromone treatment in Monterey County, in the Prunedale/Royal Oaks and North Salinas/Boronda areas.

Please click on the following links for maps with additional details:

Prunedale/Royal Oaks Map

http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/pdep/lbam/pdfs/maps/LBAM_PRE_PRUNEDALE_A_10_11_07.pdf

North Salinas/Boronda Map

http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/pdep/lbam/pdfs/maps/LBAM_PRE_SALINAS_A_10_11_07.pdf

Treatment is scheduled to occur from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m., weather permitting. If treatment is not completed this evening, CDFA anticipates working on succeeding evenings until completion. A summary of each night's treatment will be e-mailed to subscribers the following morning.



To reply to this message, email LBAM [at] cdfa.ca.gov

For more information call the toll-free LBAM Program hotline (1-800-491-1899) and visit the Program's web site.

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Organizing activities planned for Sunday and Monday

I have gotten two responses to my request for information regarding people who have been made ill by the spraying but who can't afford to go to a doctor. One of these people has health insurance. (I would have had that opinion when I had health insurance too).

Sunday November 11: I will be in front of Bookshop Santa Cruz along with HUFF and the HRO. I will be there early with my own table from 10AM-2PM and will join them at their table from 2PM to close. I'm still looking for more people to come forward who want to claim an illness due to the spraying. I will have copies of the forms that the City of Santa Cruz has requested people have their doctor fill out to claim a pesticide injury. If you can't afford to see a doctor, we can work together on getting volunteer doctors to help us, simillar to the model employed by the WSW in Santa Cruz.

Monday November 12: I will have a table at the Santa Cruz City Hall along with the folks who are organizing an event to draw attention to the lawsuits against the Checkmate spraying. The event runs from 10AM-3PM

Footnote: Using the references at http://www.drrandy.org, together with my rusty back of the envelope chemistry calculations, it seems reasonable to expect a ground level concentration of up to 15 ppm of inert ingredients other than water due to the pesticide application. This assumes the inert ingredients other than water comprise 3% of the pesticide mix, as reported on drrandy.org. This takes the neurotoxicity question out of the realm of homeopathy and places it squarely in the realm of dose-response type biology. In other words, a reasonable classical cause-effect hypothesis exists for reported illnesses due to the spray, provided the individual concentrations of the chemicals in the inert ingredient list can be more firmly established.

The Light Brown Apple Moth pheromone treatment scheduled for the evening of November 10 in the Prunedale/Royal Oaks and North Salinas/Boronda areas was postponed due to rain. CDFA will attempt to complete the application this evening, November 11.



To reply to this message, email LBAM [at] cdfa.ca.gov

For more information call the toll-free LBAM Program hotline (1-800-491-1899) and visit the Program's web site.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has completed pheromone treatment for the Light Brown Apple Moth in the North Salinas/Boronda and the Prunedale/Royal Oaks areas.

Please click on the maps below for more information.

North Salinas/Boronda Map

http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/pdep/lbam/pdfs/maps/LBAM_DONE_SALINAS_A_11_11_07.pdf

Prunedale/Royal Oaks Map

http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/pdep/lbam/pdfs/maps/LBAM_DONE_PRUNEDALE_A_11_11_07.pdf

This concludes aerial pheromone applications for the Light Brown Apple Moth in 2007.

CDFA wishes to thank local residents and communities for their cooperation during this process.



To reply to this message, email LBAM [at] cdfa.ca.gov

For more information call the toll-free LBAM Program hotline (1-800-491-1899) and visit the Program's web site. http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/PDEP/lbam/lbam_main.html

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What to do next:

Come to the rally in front of Santa Cruz City Hall 809 Center st Monday Nov 12, 2007 from 10AM-3PM.

Let us know if you have had any reactions due to the spray AND LET US KNOW IF YOU HAVE FOUND ANY DEAD BIRDS. We have one person who is saving a dead bird that died on Thursday night in Santa Cruz. We have an expert on tap who can give the bird a full post mortem analysis. If you have a dead bird, I'm not sure if it is a good idea to handle it yourself or to put in in a freezer along with food. But I was told to advise the one person who has a dead bird to freeze it if possible so we can examine it later. If you feel you must handle a dead bird, put it in a tupperware container to keep it dry and then put in in a separate ice chest with some ice or some of that dry ice that you can get at Safeway.
Then call 408-914-2751 or e-mail pagesincolor [at] aol.com. The guy with our dead bird also tried to call the County to handle this, but they refused to do anything.

It would be nice to get a more recent dead bird from the spraying of Salinas/Prunedale last night. So if you know anyone in that area of Monterey County who found a dead bird, please let us know.


If you want to have a doctor report your symptoms due to spray exposure but you don't have the cash to see a doctor you can

1) Go to the Emiline St Clinic in Building D and sign up for Medicruz or

2) Go to the Women's Health Clinic at 250 Locust St., Santa Cruz

Have a doctor there fill out the disease reporting form available on the City Of Santa Cruz Home Page at http://www.ci.santa-cruz.ca.us/ and send it to

County Disease Control Unit
PO Box 962
1080 Emiline Avenue
Bldg F
Santa Cruz, CA 95061-0962