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  • From: Kevin Wilson <kevin.wilson100 AT shaw.ca>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Fence Posts
  • Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:19:08 -0800

Little Joe wrote:
The truth is starting to come out about treated wood.
The stuff was treated with arsenic & chromium when it
first came out & they advertized it as being
completely safe. Now some of the treated wood web
sites brag about using a product called ACQ to treat
their wood...........

The information about CCA (chromium, copper, arsenic) treated wood has been out for a long time- OG magazine was campaigning strongly against it in the early 90s. The newer ACQ (ammoniated copper quat) stuff has no chromium or arsenic, just copper (like the Bordeaux mix we use on fruit trees) so it has to be safer, but who knows exactly how safe in the long term.

What are organic certifying bodies saying about ACQ wood? Are they accepting it as safe?

Kevin
Fiddlers Farm, Powell River BC




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