HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0392.021 2014-2016Murashige, Laura
From: Wendy Fraser <wendyfraser@hawaii.rr.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2015 4:24 PM
To: Council Testimony
Subject: Support Bill 71
I support Bill 71, banning the County's program of road side spraying of toxic herbicides.
Mahalo,
Wendy Fraser
Waikoloa, HI
US National Library of Medicine — National Institutes of Health — PubMed links:
• Glyphosate -based herbicides potently affect cardiovascular system in mammals: review of the literature. - PubMed —
NCBI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25245870
• Sublethal Exposure to Commercial Formulations of the Herbicides Dicamba, 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid, and
Glyphosate Cause Changes in Antibiotic Susceptibility in Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar
Typhimurium: http://www.ncbi.nim.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4453521/
• Glyphosate Poisoning with Acute Pulmonary Edema: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4413421/
• Glyphosate affects the spontaneous motoric activity of intestine at very low doses - in vitro study. - PubMed — NCBI:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25052523
• Glyphosate -based herbicides produce teratogenic effects on vertebrates by impairing retinoic acid signaling. -
PubMed — NCBI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20695457
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