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Old 20-08-2003, 06:02 PM
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Default Allergy to Bt cotton?


The spray is Bt.

with all due respect the spray is not BT.
the active ingredient is BTk.
Ingredients identified in the Foray 48B spray are [...]
methyl paraben

Methylparaben has been around for years and is in many products that
you probably handle every day.


Unless you're allergic to it, which a lot of people are. Benzoates
are often a cross-reacting allergen with salicylates, and salicylate
allergy is one of the commoner ones.

Usually the forms of salicylate/benzoate/paraben people get exposed
to are dietary. Respiratory exposure is unusual, though some people
get asthma attacks from handling salicylate-containing fruit. Since
asthma is the usual problem from this group of allergens, a spray-
delivered product would be virtually certain to give some folks a lot
of grief - hits the reacting site a damn sight more efficiently than
any food could.

Parabens get into an extraordinary range of products and can be very
difficult to avoid. Who'd expect an allergy that started out with
apples and aspirin to end up making you sensitive to dental plastics?

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