Jim Webster wrote - or quoted:

: : :: 1) There is no direct health cost, due to the approvals testing.
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: : :So you claim - yet pesticides kill thousands anually.
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: Most pesticide deaths are likely to be lingering ones - rather than
: straight poisonings. The cancer deaths are not likely to show up in
: studies like this one.

: most pesticide deaths are suicides or accidents where children have drunk
: out of the wrong bottle.

That has not been established - since the frequency of other
pesticide-caused deaths has probably not been so well documented.

: How does this relate to food safety?

It relates to /pesticide/ safety - and whether pesticides have "no direct
health cost" - as was claimed at the head of this message.
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