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Central Valley | Environment & Forest Defense | Health, Housing, and Public Services | Labor & WorkersInjured Agraquest Biotech Worker David Bell Tells His Story
The biotech industry employs hundreds of thousands of workers in the United States yet the health and safety of workers and communities could be in jeopardy. Injured Agraquest biotech worker David Bell talks about his experience at the Davis based company which was owned by Pam Marrone. He recounts the lack of health and safety production in the genetic engineering laboratory. Bell reports that fungus and bacteria was brought into the country and although he reported it there was not action by government agencies that do oversight in importation of such substances. Injured Agraquest Biotech Worker David Bell Tells His Story
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2567912703426192318 Injured Agraquest Biotech Worker David Bell Tells His Story Labor On The Job on 12/12/2008 interviews Agraquest biotech workers David Bell. Bell talks about his work at the Davis California based company owned by Pam Marrone and how the lack of proper health and safety protection led to his contamination and sickness. He also discusses how the company sought to cover-up their responsibility for his illness and the corruption and breakdown of the workers compensation system along with the failure of health and safety regulatory agencies such as OSHA. For further information on his case go to http://www.biotechawareness.com Produced by Labor Video Project P.O.Box 720027 San Francisco,CA 94172 Phone (415)282-1908 lvpsf [at] labornet.org http://www.laborvideo.org
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Friday May 22nd, 2009 12:29 PM
*INJURED AGRAQUEST BIOTECH WORKER DAVID BELL TELLS HIS STORY"
TRANSCRIPTION WITH SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION: http://www.biotechawareness.com/index~option~com_content~view~article~id~174.php On 12/12/2008 Labor On The Job interviewer, Steve Zeltzer interviewed Agraquest biotech worker David Bell. David talks about his work at the Davis, California based biotechnology company Agraquest, owned by the former Monsanto scientist and former NovoNordisk Entotech owner, Pam Marrone. This video is just a small fraction of what happens to employees working in the biotechnology field. More and more evidence is emerging that this industry in not as safe as we are being led to believe. Moreover, this industry is not being held accountable for the injuries, illnesses, diseases, maimings and even death that befalls their employees; biotech companies merely claim, “Trade Secrets” in denying the injured worker his or her constitutional rights to know what he or she has been exposed to in the workplace environment. David Bell discusses among other things: •How the lack of proper health and safety protection led to his contamination from bacteria and fungus at Agraquest. •His sickness after he was only with the company for 5 months and 9 days and the horror that has followed; 4 major sinus surgeries, loss of an intact immune system, and the continual infections he has had to endure over the years. •How Agraquest did, and still is covering-up their responsibility for his illnesses and diseases. •The corruption and the breakdown within the California workers compensation system. •The failure of health and safety regulatory agencies; such as the EPA and OSHA to regulate the biotechnology industry. http://www.biotechawareness.com/index~option~com_content~view~article~id~174.php .............................. ADDITIONALLY, Becky McClain, injured molecular biologist from Connecticut spoke of the dangers in working in the biotechnology industry during the 2009 Workers Memorial Day event in San Francisco. Mrs. McClain also encountered the same plight as David Bell; NOT KNOWING what she had been exposed to THAT MADE HER SICK ( industry's "TRADE SECRETS"), non-compliance of: the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, agencies within the state of Connecticut, including U.S. Federal Agencies. VIEW THIS VIDEO http://blip.tv/file/2061380 |
