"Tim Tyler" wrote in message ...
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.

just read the web page you posted a link to

: http://www.sums.ac.ir/IJMS/9934/abdollahi9934.html

Jim Webster