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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? ======== Email to "j-c" at this site; email to "bogus" will bounce ======== Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/purrhome.html food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files and CD-ROMs of Scottish music. |
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