EPA Proposes To Declare A Prion As A Pest Under FIFRA

EPA Proposes To Declare A Prion As A Pest Under FIFRA

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…EPA proposed to declare a prion, i.e., proteinaceous infectious particle, a 'pest' under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), and to amend its regulations to include expressly prion within the regulatory definition of pest. …EPA currently considers a prion to be a pest under FIFRA, so a product intended to reduce the infectivity of any prion on inanimate surfaces (i.e., a prion-related product) is considered to be a pesticide and regulated as such. …The proposed rule

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Prions are those pesky mis-folded proteins that cause diseases like Mad Cow, and eat your brain and kill you. Prion diseases are incurable and untreatable.

So calling prions "pests" seems a bit …inaccurate. Especially considering CWD is spreading across North America via soil and water. CWD stands for "Chronic Wasting Disease." It's the prion disease that kills deer and elk and is expected to mutate into strains that infect other animals, possibly humans.

Granted, somebody has to oversee products that claim to kill prions (prions can't be killed because they're not alive) and maybe "pesticide" works for agency oversight.

And maybe - defining prions as "pests" will make human experiments in space a whole lot more profitable. For corporate industry, not mere mortals.




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Prions are nowhere near as exciting as earthquakes and tsunamis. But they kill - and they cause Alzheimer's, neurological diseases and dementia.

AND - most likely, a variety of different prion strains are behind the Dementia Pandemic.

Prions are not "pests."

Thanks for the info. seems Pest, is really understating the and downplaying these things.

Why?

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That's what I'm wondering. ...The best I can come up with is that it opens up human experimentation in space to include prions (just "pests" by definition, for regulatory purposes!)! imho, we're about to shift to a space-based economy, built around asteroid mining (Big Oil) and human experimentation (Big Pharma). ...The cover story / sales pitch is that we'll be building a space platform outside of earth's atmosphere. ...For lots of reasons, health experimentation is a big part of the push - everyone will have to sign releases. The terms of participation are set out in the Human Research Program Program Plan for Space Exploration - a Corporate-Government Partnership.

I caught something here alright. Seems the EPA has never regulated prions! (I always though they at least tried.) And the way to start doing that is to define "prion" as a "pest." Soon, prions (hopefully) WILL be removed from things like food, blood, plasma and transplanted tissue. Wotta concept!!!

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So maybe by clasifying them it means they can somehow control them. Is that a good thing? It seems it might be.

Originally posted by guessing
So maybe by clasifying them it means they can somehow control them. Is that a good thing? It seems it might be.

Yep - looks like that's the plan. ...In case you didn't notice, HIV also is classified as a "pest" for purposes of "control" (like screening blood, plasma etc.). High time to screen for prions I'd say - and I'm curious to see the comments from industry too. ...Good luck catching all the different strains though, and they'd better include more than just the so-called "prion protein" PrPc strain!!!!!