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[Eric White <plumhillfarm@gmavt.net>]

Unfortunately Imidan has been bundled with the really toxic
organo-phoshaptes (ie all organo phoshates are SARIN according to the Obama
ie Democratic anti pesticide EPA, this is politics which hurts everyone
without any real demonstration of harm). Imidan  has a relatively low
toxicity  compared to things which actually work (it used to be used in
flea powder),  has low damage against “good bugs” (not honey bees). So the
REI has been increased from 48 hr to 7 days because they have to “protect
everyone” from “Sarin” being applied to what we eat. The so called
“studies” which have been done are very sad because they try and dissect
the benefits of eating fruits (which is proven good in many studies,  from
the benefits of imidan). They do not have the data of no pesticide fruit to
compare it to pesticide use, so the data is at best flawed. The magic of
imidan is it kills the PC eggs after they have been laid.  You have to
remember that 100% of the people who eat pickles die (no one who has eaten
pickles has lived forever), so the majority of the studities have to be
taken with a lot of salt.

Eric