RE: Do you think organic food is safer and why?

Meriel Watts (m.watts@auckland.ac.nz)
Fri, 29 May 1998 15:57:54 +1200

Dan, you wrote:

> The percentage of the total population who are becoming allergic to low
>doses of pesticides has been on the rise for years. In at least one report
>I saw, it was characterized as approaching an epidemic rate by a doctor
>specializing in the treatment of these types of allergies. Cases of
>non-allergic illnesses traced back to pesticide exposure are also on the
>rise. Possibly this is a result of better detective work on the part of
>health professionals in identifying the causes of many of these illnesses.
>

Could you provide the details of that report please?

> I could do a quick search and post a number of examples, but most readers
>on Sanet have probably seen them already.

I'm realitively new to SANET and would like some more information on this -
could you post it to my email address if SANET readers have had enough?

With thanks,
Meriel

Meriel Watts
PO Box 46-076
Herne Bay
Auckland, NZ
ph/fax: 64-9-3788-244
m.watts@auckland.ac.nz

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