----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian H."
Newsgroups: uk.business.agriculture,sci.agriculture
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 1:39 PM
Subject: Pesticides and farm kids


: Brian H. want to see again.
:
: Hmmm.
:
: Wouldn't it be more rational to blame either the infection or the drugs
: used, rather than a long since past exposure to OP's, which aren't known
: for producing these symptoms?
:
: Not in this particular case.
:
: The point I was attempting to make(obviously not very well)
: was agricultural workers ingress unknown quantities of
: chemicals.Possibly these chemicals remain dormant,
: causing no symptoms until they are triggered by temperature or reaction to
: powerful anti-biotic.
:
: Remember, in the 50s and 60s farm workers were handling powerful chemicals
: with little regard to health and safety. I don't remember using any
: protective clothes, even gloves.
:
: Rodine 25% arsenic,strychnine, dieldrene, sulphuric acid(to
: burn off potato haulm), phosdrin, mevinphos, there are plenty of others
that
: were used into the 70s, DDT was still being used in 73 on brassicers and
: organophosphates into
: the 80s.
: As an example,2cc of phosdrin injected into pheasant egg,
: eaten by fox, fox will be dead within 5yds of where egg
: was placed.
:
: In my own case,samples were taken from toenails to lumber-puncture,blood
: ,hair skin etc. These samples were sent to a Sheffield lab.After several
: days I was quizzed
: extensively about my contact with organophosphate, the
: specialist from the lab raised the question not myself, why?
:
: The following week I was asked to list all chemicals/poisons I had had
: contact with in the workplace, this I found impossible....40+yrs...could
: you?
:
: Are you sure you have no trace of agri chemical in your
: body waiting for a "trigger".......are you sure....really sure??
:
: Brian H........
:

Are your really really sure that the the color we all see as blue today
isn't realy bleen and will turn green on Novemer 3, 2004?

Gordon