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The dangers of weed killers - Glyphostae aka Roundup, the hidden killer.
"Oz" wrote in message news BAC writes In which case we probably don't regard the food source as toxic at all. Or not - in which case the toxins remain toxic to humans, and we presumably have learned to avoid ingestion, or to process the food so as to reduce the toxicity to levels we consider acceptable. Similar to how we might deal with foods we know to have been treated with 'artificial' toxins, really. So far as I am aware allowed pesticide levels in treated produce are not related to subsequent treatment by the purchaser (which may, or may not, reduce levels further). Yes, but I was thinking more of people eating 'wild' foods, not produce, e.g. Colin's one man eatathon to rid the country of J Knotweed, which might well have taken a sizeable dose of God Knows What a few hours before he harvested it. snip sensible stuff, for which many thanks Further the ADI is in essence set by the maximum amount of that produce a consumer could theoretically eat. There are stories about excessive proposed intakes such as the one where the proposed possible carrot intake was close to 100% of diet (they might be carrot loving veggies...), and was well over the toxic intake for the carrots themselves. In this situation you wouldn't be harmed by the pesticide, but would be killed by the carrots. So what is the deadly dose of carrots, and does it alter if they are cooked? |
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