Bishop attacks sheep-dip report

30 November 1999



Bishop attacks sheep-dip report

A “SIGNIFICANT proportion” of the farming community along the Welsh Marches is suffering ill-health as a result of exposure to organophosphate (OP) sheep dip, claims the Bishop of Ludlow, in a letter to The Times.

He makes the claim in response to a previous report in the paper by the committee of toxicity that repeated exposure to OPs leads to ill-health.

• Government rejects OP poison claims, FWi, yesterday (29 November, 1999)
• Ban sheep dip now, urge MPs, FWi, 27 July, 1999
• Study confirms sheep-dip fears, FWi, 01 July, 1999
• “Hundreds” could sue for sheep dip effects, FWi, 05 February, 1998
• Sheep-dippers snubbed over health, FWi, 19 September, 1997
• Minister pressed to end OP “misery”, FWi, 05 August, 1997
  
• The Times 30/11/99 page 25 (Letters to the Editor)