Comment submitted by Carla J. Mattingly, National Engineering Regulatory Compliance Coordinator, Centennial Communications

I am one of many who have allergic and after the exposure symptoms to pesticides. I work in an office atmosphere where pesticide treatment is applied once per month with the exclusion of the room that I work in due to past severe reactions. For 2-3 days after applications as workers walk across carpet and stir residual particles of the fresh residue I have headaches become lethargic, experience breathing difficulties and sometimes develop skin irritations including hives. While I react very quickly to exposure, those who notice subtle clues that they don't feel quite right don't realize that over time exposure to pesticides, cleaning agents and general indoor coupled with outdoor pollutants over the course of their lifetime does produce an ongoing exposure that has lasting effects, maybe not immediately as I experience but accumulated over time. The fact that asthma, COPD in children and our elderly in at an alarming high can directly attributed to known allergens, chemical irritants, by product pollution and PESISTIDES. There are many natural versions of pest control, cleaning agents and alternative GREEN means to protect our earth and its inhabitants. Chemically produced pesticides are not among those natural versions. Below are listed known allergens posted on: http://www.musc.edu/oem/pestallr.html Pesticides known to cause allergic reactions. The following list of common names of pesticides have been reported by scientists to be sensitizers in certain susceptible individuals: allidochlor, anilazine, antu, barban, benomyl, captafol, captan, dazomet, dichloropropane, dichloropropene, lindane, maneb, nitrofen, propachlor, pyrethrum/pyrethroids, rotenone, thiram, zineb. Pesticides may be encountered as residues in food, air and water. People may also be exposed to pesticides used in agriculture, applications for pest control at home or at work, applications to roadside right-of-ways to control weeds and applications of pesticides for public health vector control programs. Carla J. Mattingly National Engineering Regulatory Compliance Coordinator NOC Centennial Communications Desk 260-750-3811 Fax 260-459-1632 cmattingly@centwire.com