I almost hesitate to post the following pdf file because of the terrible insult it represents to the 643 families who were sickened by aerial spraying of toxic pesticides in the Monterey/Santa Cruz area in 2007. But, for the sake of letting everyone see just how negligent the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has determined to be, here is their report finding no connection between the spraying and the illnesses:

OEHHA’s Report.

I’d like to see them say to baby Jack Wilcox’s father’s face that there is no link between his child becoming delirious, eyes rolled back in his head, going into respiratory failure and the fact that pesticides known to cause respiratory failure were dumped on the baby’s home.

I’d like to see them tell Mike Lynberg’s family who fell ill the minute they stepped out of their homes that the spray didn’t cause this.

I’d like them to tell the doctor of one of our readers whose daughter was ordered to leave college to get away from the spray that aerial spraying doesn’t damage human health.

OEHHA has proved today that they, too, put the profits of special interests groups and the arrogant actions of governmental agencies ahead of public health.

We have known for decades and decades that exposure to pesticides causes illness.

We have all witnessed that the registered adverse health effects of the chemicals in the product sprayed match, point for point, the symptoms experienced by hundreds and hundreds of residents in 2007.

We also know that prolonged, chronic exposure to toxins leads to serious, potentially fatal harm, yet OEHHA is negligent to the point that they don’t even acknowledge this in their ludicrous report.

I am especially overawed by their nerve in stating that, “We want to assure the public that we are responding to their safety concerns.”

This report was OEHHA’s chance to respond. They have failed miserably and have made it abundantly clear that they have abandoned the innocent people of California in order to protect special interests. Shame. Shame. Shame.