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Old Jan 17th 2006, 11:02 am
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Makes you think twice about the regular spraying!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4616672.stm

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Old Jan 17th 2006, 11:38 am
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Originally Posted by andrew63
Makes you think twice about the regular spraying!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4616672.stm

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No offence, but no it doesn't I read all that and then noted the final sentence.

I guess if you spray the stuff around bodies on a fairly continuous basis, it could cause problems but so could anything done to excess.
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Old Jan 17th 2006, 11:48 am
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I seem to remember reading an article once about apples caused cancer turns out you had to eat 30,000 a year.

If you listened to everything they told you or all the studies carried out you'd have to live life in an oxygen tent to survive.
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Old Jan 17th 2006, 11:52 am
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That's a French report

A UK report at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/420541.stm says:
the study supported a theory developed by Professor Leo Kinlen of Oxford University that childhood leukaemia was caused by infections introduced into a community by migrant workers


It would be interesting to check on the childhood leukaemia rate in Australia, where a massive number of houses have pest control sprays done every year, and then compare the results to that first report.

However, it may be that the pest spray used by the professionals is different and safer ?

But also, I feel that Household Sprays would be used at a higher rate in Australia too ?
 
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I seem to remember reading an article once about apples caused cancer turns out you had to eat 30,000 a year.

If you listened to everything they told you or all the studies carried out you'd have to live life in an oxygen tent to survive.
Apparently too much oxygen can wipe you out as well.
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