
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, April 19, 1991                   TAG: 9104190465
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B7   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

STATE PROBES WHETHER PESTICIDE KILLED BIRDS

State officials are investigating whether the strictly regulated pesticide Furdadan 15G is responsible for the deaths of several birds found in cornfields in King George, Isle of Wight and Surry counties.

Monitors hired by the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries found the birds, including robins and sparrows, within the past two weeks.

Furadan 15G was blamed for the deaths of three bald eagles and the poisoning of a fourth in Virginia in the late 1980s. The pesticide also was linked last spring to the deaths of more than 200 blackbirds in Essex and Accomack counties. - Associated Press

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