Pesticide maker sees profit when others see risks

[nosmokes]

such charming folks. i'd like to invite Mr amvacs and his bad haircut over for dinner sometime, i really would.
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original-LATimes

***A TIMES INVESTIGATION

Pesticide maker sees profit when others see risks

Amvac buys rights to older chemicals that have raised health concerns. The company says it puts safety first.
By T. Christian Miller, Times Staff Writer
April 8, 2007

From its factory on a lonely strip in Los Angeles' industrial sprawl, Amvac Chemical Corp. does a booming business selling some of the world's most dangerous pesticides.

Amvac has fueled double-digit revenue growth through an unusual business practice: It has bought from larger companies the rights to older pesticides, many of them at risk of being banned or restricted because of safety concerns.

The company has fought hard to keep those chemicals on the market as long as possible, hiring scientists and lawyers to do battle with regulatory agencies.

While profitable, Amvac's focus on older pesticides has come at a cost to human health and the environment, according to EPA and state records, regulatory investigations and a string of lawsuits.

Accidents involving the company's pesticides have led to the evacuation of neighborhoods and the poisoning of scores of field workers in California and elsewhere.

Amvac is a leading maker of organophosphates, a class of older, highly toxic pesticides that has been under regulatory scrutiny since the late 1980s.
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complete article including links to other resources here

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Wouldn't be surprised if I learned that:

1) they make DDT, and

2) Tom Delay is a major stockholder in this company.

[KT2000]

2. This is so disgusting

These people should be forced to spend time in a childrens cancer ward.
But as the psychopaths they are, it would not likely have any effect on them.

Keep up the great posts - I forward them to other lists.