Urgent: What you Need to Know about Published Checkmate Ingredient

From stopoverheadspraying@yahoogroups.com:

2-hydroxy-4-n-octyloxybenzophenone is a part of a
class of substances called Xenochemicals. Men and
women secrete estrogen from their glands, such as from
their adrenal glands, liver and for women, ovaries.
After the gland secretes the hormone, which is an
extremely miniscule amount of a biological chemical,
the hormone travels through the bloodstream and looks
for a receptor to receive the hormone. Once it finds a
receptor, they bind together, and the chemical
reaction is complete.

What is of deep concern, is that
2-hydroxy-4-n-octyloxybenzophenone binds to estrogen
receptors not just in animals, but in humans. In other
words, it signals people's bodies to take a specific
biological action.

"Rapidly increasing scientific evidence suggests that
many of these chemicals, structures of which cross a
wide range, can interfere with normal, hormonally
regulated biological processes to adversely affect
development and/or reproductive function in wildlife,
experimental animals, and humans (see Colborn et al.,
1993; Danzo, 1998; Daston et al., 1997; Kavlock et
al., 1996; Sonnenschein and Soto, 1998; Toppari et
al., 1996 for recent reviews)."
http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/54/1/138

Furthermore, many women who are in the spray zone in
Monterey County, have immediately experience severe
symptoms related to their reproductive health, which
likely correspond to ingestion of
2-hydroxy-4-n-octyloxybenzophenone. These symptoms
include: extremely swollen and tender breasts,
exacerbated PMS symptoms, extreme mood swings, hot
flashes, sweating, spotting and delayed periods. This
even happened to women who were not directly sprayed,
but who entered the spray area several days after the
spray.

Since a hormone is such a miniscule substance, it is
likely and probable, that even inhaling one
microcapsule, or inhaling some of the time release
biochemical from one capsule (there are 28 delivered
per square foot) would contain enough
2-hydroxy-4-n-octyloxybenzophenone to substantially
alter the hormonal balance of men, women, children,
and animals.

In plain English, it is undeniable that
2-hydroxy-4-n-octyloxybenzophenone will effect human
health.
There is established science to show that
2-hydroxy-4-n-octyloxybenzophenone is not safe.

How is it that the CDFA, and EPA can claim Checkmate
is safe, with this known hormonal ingredient?

The question then is:
Why does a formula supposedly designed to suppress
moth mating habits contain a hormone that influences
human female reproductive health?

Finally, who is protecting our children, and pregnant
women from the possibly severe and dangerous side
affects that a minute amount of such a synthetic
hormone could have on their body?