Lewis Perin > wrote:
>
> http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/G...%20Final.p df
>
>I would love to see someone try to show roughly how harmful the
>pesticide levels Greenpeace found actually are. It would be nice, of
>course, to see zeroes, but that may not be practical: even an organic
>farm cant prevent stuff drifting in from its neighbors.

One of the problems with mass spectro technology today is that it can detect
a few molecules of something... and if you take a sample of anything anywhere
in the world, there's a good chance of there being a few molecules of anything
you can name in it.

A lot of the nastier pesticides are oil-soluble (partly good to help make
them stick to plants and not was off) and won't dissolve in a cup, which is
good, but there's some pretty ugly stuff out there and I don't think anyone
really has a good grip on how tiny trace amounts of some of the nastier
organometallics really affect anyone over the long term.
--scott

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