"A e old woman, who frequently worked with paraquat in was admitted to the hospital after manor scratcnss on her arns and legs developed raised lesions, xuding clear or bloody fluids. Other symptoms ineluded headache, breathlessness, chest tightness, anorexia and weisht loss.... Within 14 days of topical therapy with Burrow's solution compress and petroleum gauze, marke d improveme:n was evident and she was sent home. Seventeen days later she wal -eadmitted with symptoms of dyspnea, cough, fever, nause a/vomiting and new lesions. Progressive deterioration included hepatic and renal dysfunction, extensive coagulative necrosis of the skin down to the fat, and respiratory failure. 3he died 12 days later. Histopathological findings, togethe vc with similarities to vreviously described paraquat poisonins in animals pointed to vesticide poisoning. Studies have show: that varaquat is normally not inhaled to toxic doses during normal avplication. Presumably only small quantities at any one time were absorbed by the woman's skin, however, tha cumulative doses may have been considerable. The long term interval between exposure and death may have been due to small doses and the route of entry of the rnesticide,"

Or. Shearer also reported that 3 teratogenicity studies SF Paraquat (Granmoxone) for birth defects after conception ndicated retardation of bone formation and srowth retardation.

3) The insecticide Killex is a mixture of 2-49, meconrop, a

nd dicamba, at least 2 of these comoounds being on the J. 3. I.B.T..List.

An article in thé Yancouver 3un, June 21, (Sttachment 7) is head-lined "Yiged Killer causes birth i in rats, Canadian scientists claim." The author J Carruthers ina Special to The Sun writes from Cttawa:

"The weed killer 2,4-D has been found to cause birth defects in animal experiments performed by two federal nealtnh department scientists, Dr. #.5..xhera and Dr. W.P. hickinley.

The results of the Ottawa experiments just published in the U.S. scientific journal Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, confirm suspicions raised almost ‘hree years age when a related weed and brush control chemical, 2,4 root » was found to be teratogenic to cause birth defects."

In.a public information shees on 2~4D, Ridge-lieadows 5.P.2.C. (Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge branch) states:

“Research shows that as early as 1948, 2-4D was known to produce liver and kidney damage, heart attacks, severe destruction of the central nervous system, Zenetic changes,