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At 10:26 AM 11/06/2000 -0600, you wrote: >Marjorie. > >I am not trying to start a flame war but: Hi Don, I think John and Ray both did a great job in answering your excellent question much better than I could. Especially since I very, very seldom eat fish, and have NEVER eaten it raw! >OOC(out of curiosity) who made that great conclusion. >The chemical company who sells it??? From the way I read that Web Page, the EPA made that deduction! >So what would be the calculation if human was a child? 50 lbs and ate >toxic cooked fish over the period of 10 years? >snip If the fish was cooked, as you state, according to their calculations, nothing, but they don't suggest consumption of Rotenone killed fish. In this year 2000, IMOHO, I don't think its possible for you to find a rotenone fish killed in 1956, and that is the year they treated the lake in Oregon according to the web page URL I posted last night. I'm going to repost a part of the EPA's answer: <snip> "Cooking destroys rotenone so there would be a further loss of any residues during cooking. However, because no tolerance (acceptable residue level permitted in fish flesh) has been set by EPA, the consumption of rotenone killed fish cannot be recommended." Let's face it Don, just living is dangerous to your health! One year it was cranberries, then it was the red dye in hotdogs, and it just continues and continues without much proof. But if everyone washes their fruits and vegetables before eating them raw or if they cook them, then there shouldn't be a problem from Farmers or the Home Gardener using Rotenone. I do have to say one personal thing here, my husband, after he retired from the U.S.A.F., went back to college and became a Certified Pest Control Operator. He's certified in Lawn & Ornamental, Household Pest, Rats and Fumigation and is licensed in Florida. He worked in that field for another 20 years before retiring permanently in 1991. He has Diabetes and Glaucoma, not Parkinson's. However, it's me who has the PD, and I never was around any of the pesticides. My Grandson, whom I sent to a 2 year course at Broward Community College, also became a Certified Pest Control Operator, is now 30 years old and lives in Seattle, WA and is certified in the State of Washington. He works in it everyday, and has for the last 10 years, shows no sign of PD either. So therefore, I'm going to act as if I was born in Missouri instead of Kansas, and tell them "Show me", because I can't find the connection between Pesticides and PD. I'm sorry, I wish I could, for everyone' s sake so that they could find the cure and the cause at the sametime, but to me it just isn't logical, knowing what I know about pesticides and PD. >snip > > > Q. Is it safe to eat fish killed by rotenone? > > Calculations that address a worst case situation indicate that a 132 pound > > person would have to consume 535 pounds of raw fish containing 100 ppb > > rotenone to acquire a toxic dose. Cooking destroys rotenone so there would > > be a further loss of any residues during cooking. However, because no > > tolerance (acceptable residue level permitted in fish flesh) has been set > > by EPA, the consumption of rotenone killed fish cannot be recommended. > > > > > > just me, > > Marjorie