In the Epa’s Latest attempt to make you sick, they have just allowed the dangerous pesticide Methyl iodide, also known as iodomethane to be sprayed all over the foods that you eat.

A group of 54 scientists, six of those being Nobel Prize winners, sent a memo to the EPA urging that the pesticide should not be registered for use because of the dangerous effects to pregnant women and children, the elderly and farm workers.

The EPA who cares more about corporate profits than your health, pretty much told the scientists to shove it and allowed this pesticide on the market place despite the know risks to the general polulation.

California’s Department of Pesticide Regulation says that the chemical as a carcinogen and has also had objections to it’s use. California officials have stated that no matter what the EPA’s action is, use of the new will not be allowed in the state until they conclude their own review in a year.

A spokesman for the United Farmworkers of America said in a statement that the EPA should “focus on alternatives that don’t view us as disposable human beings who can risk cancer and miscarriages in the name of supposed economic gain.”

Robert Bergman, a chemistry professor at USC, called the EPA’s decision outrageous.

“I think it’s pretty clear these guys never had any intention of taking our concerns seriously,” he said. “They have intended to approve this stuff from day one and we were just a bump in the road.”

Scientists said that the use of methyl iodide is problematical because its combination with chloropicrin, another soil fumigant that recently sickened some 125 farm workers who breathed it in near Reno, Nev.

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