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Article: Pentachlorophenol Again Under Siege.(anti-pesticide activists seek its ban as a wood preservatitive)(Brief Article)
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- Chemical Market Reporter
- Article date:
- July 31, 2000
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ANTI-PESTICIDE ACTIVISTS are once again asking the government to cancel the use of pentachlorophenol as a wood preservative, claiming it poses unacceptable health risks to workers and children.
In a July 21 letter to US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Carol Browner, the Washington-based group Beyond Pesticides/National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides (NCAMP) renewed its request, first made in June 1997, that EPA ban pentachlorophenol.
The organochlorine chemical has been used for decades throughout the US to treat wood utility poles to ward off rot and insects. There are an estimated 130 million wood poles currently in use.
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