On Jun 12, 11:51*am, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
> Lewis Perin > wrote:
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> > *http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/G...ications/repor...
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> >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 can’t prevent stuff drifting in from its neighbors.
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> 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
>
> --
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Yes. I'm at the stage where if they're willing to call it organic,
I'm willing to drink it. Toci