LDA Canada joins medical and environmental NGOs against reversing the ban on the cosmetic use of pesticides
May 30, 2012
Dear Member of Provincial Parliament,
Oppose Bill 88, Pesticides Amendment Act (Licence for Cosmetic Purposes), 2012
We ask you to vote against Bill 88, which would amend the Pesticides Act to reintroduce banned lawn and garden chemicals. Ontario’s world-class cosmetic pesticide ban, as it now stands, protects both human health and the environment. We fully support maintaining a comprehensive ban on the sale and cosmetic use of pesticides.
Since the legislation came into effect in 2009,
- Concentrations in urban streams of lawn chemicals such as 2,4-D, Dicamba and MCPP, were reduced by up to 97%. and,
- The third review of the health effects of pesticides, released in May of this year by Ontario College of Family Physicians, reconfirms that pesticides are harmful to reproductive and respiratory systems and neurodevelopmental behaviour.
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