Anonymous public comment

I take your word for it that chlorpyrifos does not convert to the oxon form enough 'to matter', and never has! I take your word for it that this flaky, white dust chlorpyrifos oxon does not get into our food or air. I take your word for it that the tests for the oxon are accurate when they show no oxon in the presence of chlorpyrifos on produce. Does the chlorpyrifos evaporated into the air oxidize? I take your word for it that breathing it 'doesn't matter' for all Americans beyond ignoring the farm families always breathing chlorpyrifos and oxon dust. Recognized random on-going industrial damage to our citizens must be mitigated with independent regulation; coupled with automatic risk/benefit sharing wherein apparently poisoned people are guaranteed arbitration rights based on medical diagnosis. It must be funded and supported by the beneficiaries of the public largess of allowing these toxic residues into the food supply for personal profits of growers, applicators, and manufacturers. If it turns out there has been an active obfuscation campaign to ignore the oxon content of the food, may they rot in help. Chemists early on in the 1920's recognized the horrifically neuro-toxic effects of tiny amounts of the oxons of organophosphates on humans. Intensive work went into finding a way to DECREASE THE TOXICITY of the oxon forms so that workers would survive the poison long enough to load munitions. They discovered that replacing the oxygen with sulfur decreased the toxicity and provided relatively high rates of reconversion to the oxon at the target, both naturally in the air environment, but also 'in vivo' (tech talk for 'in yer gut'.) This is the trick. Now EPA only 'believes in' chlorpyrifos, but it regains potency in the wild (this is our guts again) when it is no longer owned by anyone, which is not the EPA's department. The law says otherwise. Please BAN THIS PESTICIDE due to oxon effects violating the FQPA. Thank you for your service.