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To: maceng2 who wrote (14875)	12/27/2001 5:33:37 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Having had a neighbour once running a sausage factory, I was not impressed by the stories surrounding mad cow desease, nor after living as a student, subtenant of a 80 year young frmr veterenarian who worked on setting up regulations on slaughter houses (in the 1930-60s). Sallads are best avoided if one doesn't know what they have been grown in and with what. (raw or somewhat composted sewage, for example, and if local heavy metal industries use the same sewage pipes, have a brother in that important field, although use for sallad is limited here) Not that long ago I remember some school (close where I lived, but on the other side) in US being closed down for peeling lead-paint, although one at the same time found a lot of old lead-pipes in that same area, kids had really problems concentrating, learning to read and put on their sneakers. (my conclusion was one of regular healthcare checkups and local taxes, for local infra, the lead thing was important when here I was at that age, not just for the romans) Cadmium and chlorine are more interesting these days, silently the limits on plastic, PCPs, heavy metals,etc are lowered, not too fast to upset the economy. Ilmarinen After some 20 years of investment, chlorine is not used to whiten paper, both newspapers, coffee filters, more intimate paper,etc.. major change in the paper business. Now the same applies to food packed in plastics and especially old fashioned card board, one PCP study from UK. (to connect to electronics, luckily some of the worst cleaning agents are now banned, fertility treatments for lowered sperm counts became alarming although traditionally mostly women work with them, except for the regular TV service man, soldering and spraying) Btw, Finland has the best measured and verified sperm counts in europe, Denmark the worst verified decline, more pestizides needed down there. (mostly a matter of having some verifiable reference from the bad days of the 1930s and universal healthcare. Btw,btw, run into an old buddy who worked on growing banans in honduras this xmas.