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  • From: Victor Guest <vic@daena.eepo.com.au>
  • To: Permaculture WA <perma@eepo.com.au>
  • Subject: Re: Herbicides
  • Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 18:02:21 WST

>From: jwright@agt.net

>Hi Barbara,
> I don't know what "Finale" is, but paraquat is sold as Gramoxone,
>a potent grass herbicide. It has 'high acute mammalian toxicity'.
>ie it's very poisonous to mammals. At one time paraquat was
>often used as a means of committing suicide by agricultural workers in
>the third world. It seems to me that there were also many cases of
>accidental poisoning.
> If Finale is a 'watered down' version of paraquat it will likely have
>the same chemical component on the label, or one with a similar sounding
>chemical name. If you searched the www for whatever chemical names
>you find on the label, I'm sure you would find some information fairly
>quickly. The Pesticide Action Network is likely to have the
>kind of information you're looking for.
> We *did* talk about propionic acid a while back. :-)
>
>Jim
>>
>>Perhaps we've covered this before -- if so, I haven't the archive. But I
>>thought I had found a "safe" herbicide in a product called "Finale." It is
>>sold in stores that largely do organic. Recently, a biologist with BLM told
>>me he thought it was a watered down version of something called "Paraquat."
>>Whatever that is must be pretty terrible.
>>
>>Does anyone know about such things?

Paraquat and Diquat are the 2 chemicals which are used in sprayseed.
Many people who used it have nosebleeds from being around the spray.
Its ten years since I had anything to do with it.

Regards,
Vic
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  • Re: Herbicides, Victor Guest, 07/22/1998

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