On 7/6/06 16:50, in article , "K"
wrote:

writes
Sacha Hubbard wrote:
It's just that, strictly speaking, the EU doesn't like
anyone to use anything for a purpose for which it isn't designated.

And, therefore, the department of jobsworths could prosecute Homebase
for giving that advice. I think I want to go back to 1921 and start
again.

I think I prefer a world in which things have been tested for particular
purposes with no apparent ill effect, and are then listed as being OK
for that purpose, so that you know that if you use it for something
else, it's at your own risk.

True. But people *have* been using soapy water on plants for generations so
I'd think that constitutes a test in itself, really. I would think that the
most important thing with regard to the use of Fairy Liquid, for example,
would be the just using one drop. I wonder if anyone has tried it with
Ecover, the 'green' washing up liquid. We use their products so I'll give
it a go.

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Sacha
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South Devon
(email address on website)