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Posted by Harry K on May 22, 2008, 10:43 pm
On May 22, 8:20=A0am, mkirs...@rochester.rr.com wrote:
> Red wrote:
> > The EPA Restricted Use Pesticides listing lists creosote as having
> > oncogenic effects (capable of producing tumors) and mutagenic effects
> > (capable of mutating DNA & causing cancer). =A0A political movement? =A0=
Do
> > I take your word it's safe or the EPA's word that it isn't safe?
>
> Nobody said creosote was safe. If you eat it you'll get sick. If you
> roll around in it day in and day out for years and years without
> protective clothing, you'll probably get cancer, or at least some
> pretty nasty skin problems.
>
> Everything isn't black and white. There are shades of gray, and this
> one is a pretty light shade of gray.
>
> The amount of creosote leaching from railroad ties used as landscape
> timbers in your yard is tiny. The amount of contact you have with
> these railroad ties is tiny. Unless you have an obsessive compulsive
> need to roll around naked on bleeding railroad ties, or chew on them
> like a beaver, you will not experience any adverse effects from the
> simple presence of creosote.
>
> You get more direct exposure to creosote from bonfires, your
> fireplace, or your wood stove, but none of those are subject to the
> same PANIC ALERT that these creosote-coated railroad ties are
> receiving.
For sure. the cites 'aussiblui' gave above pretty well lays it out.
If you aren't taking a bath in it or 'huffing' it - no problem.
Of course facts have never stopped the ecofreaks and the like from
raising a dust storm in the middle of a flood.
Harry K
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