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Last December, the HEW Commission on Pesticides and their Relationship to Environmental Health suggested that Carbaryl-an insecticide sprayed to combat the elm leaf beetle-was a potential health hazard to man. It apparently causes bone malformations in litters of mice and beagle dogs...
...Commission's report emphasized that the birth defect experiments used large doses of Carbaryl and that the experiments were still inconclusive concerning effects on people...
However, the Commission recommended that Carbaryl use "be immediately restricted to prevent risk of human exposure." Last year, a Harvard contractor sprayed some 25 gallons of Carbaryl, and elm sprayings are again scheduled for early June and possibly later this summer...
This summer's anti-gypsy-moth campaign in New Jersey has sprayed 41,000 acres of infested forest with carbaryl, an insecticide that takes only hours to turn into inert residue. Carbaryl is therefore less effective than DDT, which stays on the foliage and kills caterpillars for weeks or months. Lest the cautious chemical fail to save the forests, New Jersey's moth fighters also plan to drop by airplane 100,000 cardboard traps baited with a synthetic sex scent to attract male gypsy moths. New Jersey conservationists hope that when caterpillars that survive spraying turn into mature...
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