In uk.rec.gardening Jim Webster wrote:
: "Tim Tyler" wrote in message ...
: Jim Webster wrote - or quoted:

: : : :: 1) There is no direct health cost, due to the approvals testing.
: : : :
: : : :So you claim - yet pesticides kill thousands anually.

: :
: : 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.

: wrong again, it is very well documented in the website whose address you
: posted

No it isn't.

The overall frequency of pesticide related deaths is not known.

For one thing not all the mechanisms of poisoning are yet known.

: I refer you to
: http://www.sums.ac.ir/IJMS/9934/abdollahi9934.html

: perhaps you should read web pages before you quote them
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