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Old 24-05-2003, 06:23 PM
Tim Tyler
 
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Default The dangers of weed killers - Glyphostae aka Roundup, the hidden killer.

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

[...]

: : 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.
:
: no, it was a different document.

Exactly - rather than look in the report cited you chose to only examine
some tables from it.

The full report contained the information you claimed was missing.
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