carcinogens in australian agricultural product

I wonder if Gary Tessmann, Dairy farmer and chairman of the newly formed Kingaroy Concerned Citizens Group (KCCG) would like to divulge that common Agricultural Dairy sanitisers for sanitising stainless steel, rubber ware, concrete floors and wash troughs contain Benzene derivatives as a main Active Constituent? At levels of 53G PER LITRE OF BENZENE DERIVATIVE ACTIVE CONSTITUENT for some of these Dairy sanitizers we would be looking at infinitely higher amount of benzene than the ppb amounts Cougar was falsely accused of leaking into local landowners bores:


Public Chemical Registration Information System - PUBCRIS (Australian Govt website):

http://services.apvma.gov.au/PubcrisWebClient/search.do;jsessionid=knVcMpgNhnvpvyTZBclY5nNL3bm49vFvQWS8Y5vLHGPTqxBnxcJf!1257025781

This is also an interesting article:
http://permaculture.org.au/2008/08/13/pesticides-and-you/

Extracts from article include:
"Pesticides are designed to kill. They are released deliberately into the environment and onto food. Only about 1% of a pesticide actually reaches its target. The rest is released into the environment, exposing innocent people and wildlife." ? WWF

"But, as mentioned in our previous pesticide post, the use of chemicals is not slowing up ? we?re using more and more, and, they?re getting stronger:

According to David Pimentel, entomologist at Cornell University, over the past 50 years pesticide use has increased 30 times (and toxicity of pesticides more than a hundredfold)?"

"Direct causal links between pesticide exposure and subsequent long-term illness are extremely difficult to establish. However, the evidence is mounting. Out of 426 chemicals named in 1988 by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food as ingredients in pesticides cleared for use in England, 164 had been implicated in causing cancer, genetic mutations, irritant reactions, or reproductive problems ranging from impotency to birth defects. A 1986 National Cancer Institute study reported that farmers exposed to herbicides ? espectially 2,4-D ? for more than twenty days per year were six times as likely to develop non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system. In the prime agricultural region of the San Joaquin Valley of California, where 35% of the wells are contaminated with DPCP, the State Department of Health Services found an increased mortality rate for stomach cancer, the primary site for tumour induction in animals used in testing DPCP. In the small farm community of McFarland, California, thirteen children have developed cancer since 1981, and six have died; miscarriages, fetal deaths and low birth weights are common. A definitive causal link has not been established, but pesticide contamination in the region is a likely factor. Other recent studies link agricultural chemicals to an increase in birth defects.

? Scientists are finding higher and higher levels of pesticides in people throughout the world. The effects are poorly understood, but the increased use of pesticides and other industrial chemicals has been followed by increased cancer rates. Since chronic health problems are usually slow in developing, it may well be that the most serious effects of pesticide contaminaton are yet to come."