What's in Your Kernals? hexythiazox???

I recently read Texas has over 75,000,000 acres of corn. But the ears I got from my small plot suited me fine; fresh, juicy, and I knew exactly how they were grown. I wonder how many people know that recently, due to heavy mite populations, the TX Ag Commissioner issued an exemption for 35+ counties in Texas to use... well why don't I just paste it here, along with the link. Read for yourselves, and then savor your own corn...
http://www.agr.state.tx.us/media/press_releases/0604/com_062904.htm

Media/Press
For Immediate Release: June 29, 2004
Contact: Allen Spelce or Beverly Boyd
(512) 463-7664

TDA Secures Crisis Exemption To Use Onager Miticide On Corn To Control Mites

AUSTIN - Agriculture Commissioner Susan Combs announced today that the Texas Department of Agriculture has been granted approval by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to issue a Section 18 crisis exemption allowing the use of hexythiazox (Onager Miticide) on corn in Texas as a resistant management tool to control the Banks grass mite (Oligonychus pratensis) and the two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae Koch).

Onager Miticide, manufactured by the Gowan Company, may be applied following all directions, restrictions and precautions on the EPA registered product label, as well as restrictions within the exemption notice. The crisis exemption went into effect June 25, 2004, and will remain in effect until EPA makes a decision on the FIFRA Section 18 Emergency Specific Exemption that TDA submitted June 2.

Applications will be made only by certified applicators, by licensed applicators or by persons under the direct supervision of licensed applicators.

Onager Miticide may be applied in the following Texas counties: Bailey, Borden, Carson, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Dallam, Dawson, Deaf Smith, Floyd, Gaines, Gray, Hale, Hansford, Hartley, Hockley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lamb, Lipscomb, Lubbock, Lynn, Mitchell, Moore, Oldham, Ochiltree, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Scurry, Sherman, Swisher, Terry, Wheeler and Yoakum.

For more information, contact your county Texas Cooperative Extension office or TDA at (512) 463-7544. A copy of the approval notice is located on the TDA Web site at www.agr.state.tx.us/pesticide/exemptions/pes_corn.htm.

ON WITH ORGANIC GROWING...

Yeah, I wonder WHAT we ingest in most of our food we don't raise ourselves.