• Pesticide sickens area field workers
  Pesticide spraying sickened about 30 farmworkers near Mettler on Thursday morning, including seven who had to go to the hospital. Their conditions were unclear Thursday evening. The affected people worked for Giumarra Vineyards but were contaminated by fungicide sprayed at neighboring Hall Farming vineyards, said David Moore, director of the Kern County Department of Agriculture and Measurement Standards.  More at: http://www.bakersfield.com/619/story/71013.html

• Text story: Fungicide Drift near Arvin
  The work day was cut short for over forty farm workers after they were exposed to a nontoxic fungicide. It happened Thursday in the vineyards near Arivn. Giumarra Farms employs the forty-three workers affected
  More at: http://www.eyeoutforyou.com/home/3792196.html
  
  
• 6 pm news video: Fungicide Drift near Arvin
  
  Over forty farm workers after they were exposed to a nontoxic fungicide. See the video at: http://www.eyeoutforyou.com/home/3792196.html?video=YHI&t=a
  
  
• 12 noon news video: Field Workers Sprayed with Pesticide
  
  43 Giumarra Employees were sprayed with a low level pesticide commonly used on grapes. See the video at: http://www.eyeoutforyou.com/home/3788647.html?video=YHI&t=a

• Text story: Farm Workers Exposed to Chemical Drift
  BAKERSFIELD - More than 30 farm workers were exposed to a chemical drift Thursday morning south of Bakersfield, and nearly a dozen were transported to local hospitals after feeling sick. Forty-three Giumarra Vineyard workers were evacuated Thursday morning, after a chemical drift near Arvin. More at: www.kget.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=B8D419D3-3E69-45E8-AB9A-C7AFE1357A
  
  
• 6 pm news video: Farm workers exposed to chemical drift
  See the video at: http://www.kget.com/mediacenter/?videoId=%2011431 or http://www.kget.com/mediacenter/?videoId=%2011431#top.  (Click on farm workers exposed to chemical drift, on the right hand side to see.)

• Text story: Farmworkers Sprayed With Fungicide
  ARVIN -- Seven Giumarra farmworkers were taken to Kern Medical Center and San Joaquin Community Hospital Thursday after a non-toxic fungicide from a neighboring field drifted into the field where they were working. The workers complained of eye and throat irritation. More than 40 laborers were working in a field south of Arvin Thursday morning when the drift occurred. More at: http://www.turnto23.com/news/9773731/detail.html

8/31/06: Associated Press (2:30 pm)

• Farmworkers sickened by fungicide in Kern County
  ARVIN-Twenty grape farmworkers became sick Thursday when fungicide from a neighboring vineyard drifted over them south of Bakersfield, county agriculture officials said. Giumarra Vineyards employees were working next to a field owned by Hall Farming where a sulfur-based chemical was being applied to grapevines to prevent mildew, said David Moore, director of the Kern County Department of Agriculture and Measurement Standards. "All of a sudden we saw a lot of smoke like when there is a fog coming in and we noticed that they were fumigating in the next farm over," said one of the workers, Antonio Estrada, 46. More at: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20060831-1431-ca-fungicidedrift.html