The Nation - News from Feb. 7, 1985
The Environmental Protection Agency reversed itself and said it would permit use of the pesticide EDB on citrus fruit bound for Japan for another four months. An AFL-CIO officer said that means the EPA is making “sacrificial lambs” of several hundred truck drivers, dock and warehouse workers in Florida who will be exposed to the chemical. The agency last year banned almost all use of ethylene dibromide to prevent the spread of fruit flies, on the grounds that the pesticide is the most powerful cause of cancer in laboratory animals ever tested.
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