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Critics complain that the EPA has no way to measure the combined impact of ingesting many different pesticides. "I may have Alar on my apples, lead arsenate on my grapefruit, captan on my vegetables," says Jay Feldman, national coordinator of the National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides. "Alone, each of them may constitute a negligible risk. But when you add them up, the total toxic burden is too high...
...Exposure to four carcinogenic fungicides, including Captan and Mancozeb, may lead to one case of cancer per 33,000 to 160,000 children, two to seven times the allowable risk...
Under mounting pressure, the EPA has begun to take action. Last month the agency announced its intention to ban the use of daminozide by next winter and said that it was barring use of the fungicide captan on 42 crops. Some find the Government's response too slow. California's Democratic Representative Henry Waxman and Massachusetts' Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy plan to introduce federal legislation that would force the EPA to act quickly to remove dangerous pesticides from the food supply...
...starting lineup for the A team will probably still be tentative, even after Friday's game with Dartmouth. Besides Stahura in the backfield, lanky Tom Zierk, a track start at school and the fastest runner on the squad, is scheduled to start at wingback, and Joe Guglietta, ex-football captan at Worcester Academy, will probably be at fullback. Gugilotta has been noted as an extremely shifty and hard line plunger...
Trailing Buckley came Bill Webber with seven points and Bud Finegan with six. Also in the scoring column were Joe Romano and Captan Franny Simpson with three points each, Ed Rothschild two, and Art Scully...