Xref: kermit uk.environment.conservation:42927 uk.rec.birdwatching:67353 uk.rec.gardening:144780 uk.rec.natural-history:14639 uk.business.agricultu113342

In uk.rec.gardening Jim Webster wrote/quoted:

: http://www.pesticides.gov.uk/committ...umtabsrev1.pdf
: is the actual data in the report

: Some of the key findings of the report a
:
: * UK grown non-organic strawberries contained dicofol at
: illegal levels. Dicofol is not approved for use on
: strawberries in the UK. Dicofol is similar to DDT and is a
: suspected hormone disrupter. The 3 organic strawberry
: samples were free of residues.

: The actual figures were
: Concentration range number in that range
: dicofol 0.02 (i.e. not found) 59
: (MRL = 2*) 0.08 1
: (MRL = 0.02*) 0.2, 0.2 2

: as for the three organic strawberry samples being free of residues, I would
: love to discover how they found this out because no where in the data
: summary is the term organic used other than as in 'organic bromide' or
: 'inorganic bromide'

"Three of the samples tested were labelled as organic and did not contain
any residues."

- http://www.pesticides.gov.uk/committ...rep-01rev1.pdf

[on page 22]

: indeed doing a search through the entire document similar claims seem to
: have been made with no actual reference to the data provided in the report

You've just demonstrated that your searching skills are not very good.

Can you be specific about what you think is not supported by the data?
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