Thread: Age restrictions on the purchase of ....eggs

And the contributors are egg static.

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I'm going to put this in my photo albumen.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Another contaminant, not lead, would be coal tar and its derivatives including creosote, which were used as a wood preservative, waterproofing, and disinfectant for two centuries until about 1970. Some industries would have used this intensively - for example, it was used on railway sleepers, which often found their way as a "second life" into garden edging etc. Places where this was applied, for example, would be heavily contaminated.

Have to admit that I cringe every time I see businesses selling vegetable beds using recycled timber like railway sleepers, or old pallets, because they've almost certainly been treated with something like creosote or arsenic.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

And the contributors are egg static.

And that's no yolk.

Originally Posted by Arapiles

Have to admit that I cringe every time I see businesses selling vegetable beds using recycled timber like railway sleepers, or old pallets, because they've almost certainly been treated with something like creosote or arsenic.

Pallets have a code on them that shows what they've been treated with.

Good luck, Grasshopper.

DL

Originally Posted by JDNSW

.............. One problem is that as the ability to measure very small concentrations improves, there is a tendency to further reduce the environmental levels that cause alarm, in some cases resulting in major expenditure for very doubtful benefit.

Around 20 - 25 years ago in Vic there was a major emerging issue with treated pine in public parks, children's playgrounds with arsenic (the bad cousin of lead) being detected in low levels.

For a couple of weeks it looked like every bit of treated pine would have to be pulled out and replaced with ?

It then emerged that that arsenic is ubiquitous in most soils in the extremely low concentrations the instruments were detecting.

Exactly as you've iterated John.

DL

Hi,
Tas had some homes built in the early 60s in a log -cabin style out of copper arsenic impregnated pine logs.
As the logs dried out the salts crystalized on the timber surface and would drop on working surfaces, bedding and floors. They were soon prohibited in habitable structures, but the logs were allowed on structures exposed to the weather. Some time later the arsenic treatment was phased out all altogether.
Cheers

...and it affected tens of million of eggs that came in contact , thus forcing supermarkets to restrict sales of eggs to u18's