Nontoxic Pest Control
 

About The Author, Stephen Tvedten

Stephen Tvedten is the author of nontoxic pest control books: The Best Control 2 & The Bug Stops Here. Stephen Tvedten's current occupation is President of Get Set, Inc., an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) firm that uses exclusively non-toxic alternatives to pesticides.

Stephen Tvedten has completed pest control courses at Purdue and Penn State University. He is consulted by lawyers, doctors, laboratories, environmentalists, government officials, victims, and reporters from all over the world. His oustanding experience in the field of pest control demonstrates that Mr. Tvedten is an accomplished leader in the development of safer nontoxic pest control.

Stephen Tvedten has held many state certifications in Pest Management, and has over 36 years of experience. Prior to becoming the president of Get Set, Inc., he presided over Stroz Services, Inc., which started out as a "conventional" pest control company. When he realized the great harm registered pesticide poisons had done to him and his family, he worked tirelessly to ban Chlordane, a toxic termiticide.

Stephen Tvedten is founder of The Institute of Pest Management, whose advisory panel includes notable toxicologists, doctors, lawyers skilled in the subject of chemical exposure, and is President of Prevent Environmental Suicide Today (PEST) an environmental group.

Mr. Tvedten has held many positions, including: a certified home, asbestos and environmental inspector; an IPM consultant to many schools, several governments and countries; a guest lecturer and public speaker for many environmental groups; and has been consulted as a legal expert by attorneys at and prior to trial.

Mr. Tvedten has developed notoxic pest control programs, including: the Get Set Integrated Pest Management IPM program, the first guaranteed termite inspection program for real estate, and an automated Phase I Environmental Inspection program.

Stephen Tvedten's insight on nontoxic pest control has been published in numerous pulications and appeared on television and radio interviews. Stephen has written several articles on nontoxic pest control. He wrote the Feature Article for Pest Control Magazine and has been featured in periodicals such as Our Toxic Times and Alternative Medicine, to name a few. His comical letter about beaver dams to the Michigan DEQ has become legendary on the internet.

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Accomplishments:

  • Scientific advisor for the National Pediculosis Association
  • Recipient of the 1985 Small Business of the Year Environmental Award
  • Guest faculty member of environmental groups such as NCAMP
  • Multiple Chemical Sensitivity MCS International Country Coordinator for the USA
  • Testified before the US House of Representatives on the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act
  • Appeared before the Environmental Protection Agency, the Michigan Toxic Substance Control Commission, and the Michigan Department of Agriculture for hearings regarding the safe use of chemicals
  • Featured on CBS' West 57th Chlordane Segment - Broadcast August 15, 1987
  • Taught a post-graduate course on PsychImmuno Neuro Toxicology (Effects of Chemicals on Man) including treatment protocols at the Indiana Academy of Osteopathy
  • Recipient of an Academic Excellence Award from Study Web as a reference for schools

Personal Statement:

I have been a pest control operator for over 35 years. I believed the Poison Industry at one point. These Poison Execs actually wrote ads that said chlordane was so "safe" that it did not require the use of protective gloves or an air respirator. I stopped using the gloves purely on "peer" pressure and shortly afterwards I became ill. The doctors gave me two years to live. Even though I was in extremely bad physical and mental health, I worked tirelessly to get chlordane banned. After chlordane was banned or "voluntarily withdrawn", I detoxified my body. Prior to detoxification I could not add up change and now, my IQ is measured in the area of 200. Unfortunately, others in my family were not as lucky as me. Members of my family died, including my uncle and my son. 

Today I have safely and effectively controlled all manner of pest problems inside and outside in over 350 schools without ever using any volatile chemical poisons. Pest control management methods I developed have proven to be far more effective and safer than using the chemical pesticide poisons that are used today in many schools, homes, businesses and agriculture.

How to kill pests without killing yourself or the Earth

There are about 50 to 60 million insect species on Earth - mankind has named only about 1 million and of those, only about 1 thousand are considered "pest" species, and of these, already over 50% of these insects have become resistant to synthetic chemical pesticide poisons. Each year mankind loses about 25,000 to 100,000 species of insects, plants and animals due to man's "ecological footprint. But, after poisoning the planet and contaminating every living thing for the last 60 years with these dangerous and ineffective pesticide poisons, man still has not successfully eliminated, or much less controlled, even one species of insect considered to be pests! And still, mankind continues to use more and more pesticides to try to "keep up"! Even with all of this expensive pollution - we continue to lose more and more crops and human lives each year to the use of pesticides.

We are losing the war against these insect pests mainly because we insist on using strictly synthetic pesticide poisons and fertilizers. Ever since the advent of synthetic chemical pesticides and fertilizers there has been a severe drought of knowledge stemming from a decline in Agricultural Reasearch & Devalopment, especially in the production research of safe notoxic pest control.

The greatest challenge facing humanity in the coming century will be the necessity for to double our global food production to meet a booming increase in population while using less land area, less water, less soil nutrients, rising chemical contamination to our environment, droughts from global warming, and increasing insect damage to crops as insect migration expands.