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Armillatox

Dirty HarryDirty Harry Posts: 1,048
edited April 2021 in Problem solving
Aware this was banned by the EU a while ago but I've found a decent stash of this in my dad's shed.

Was this a bit of a nonsense ban and is it worth keeping handy?
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  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    There was nothing nonsense about the ban, it is foul stuff containing tar oils and acids. Basically the left over junk from petrochemical refining. It was and remains banned as a fungicide but is currently sold and can be used as a disinfectant.
  • delskidelski Posts: 274
    edited April 2021
    Armillatox is made from an extract of British Coal (originally plant material) emulsified in the finest castor oil soap - it contains no organochlorine or organophosphates and is therefore totally biodegradable.

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Sorry, but there are several extracts from coal, which despite it being plant material are incredibly toxins, including several known carcinogens.
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  • delskidelski Posts: 274
    edited April 2021
    Lots of things are human carcinogens yet people still ingest (or force other people to ingest) them. Alcohol, for example, can cause cancer of the oesophagus, liver ETCETC yet magic mushrooms are still illegal. The government can really go stick it up its A*SE deciding what we can and cannot consume legally. Mushrooms are good for us.
  • delskidelski Posts: 274
    edited April 2021
    punkdoc said:
    Sorry, but there are several extracts from coal, which despite it being plant material are incredibly toxins, including several known carcinogens.

    Can you quote peer reviewed journals on what has been shown to cause cancer directly from these carcinogens extracted from coal? Is is instantaneous cancer? Or long term exposure as per oesophageal cancer from alcohol?
  • delskidelski Posts: 274
    If a person ate 7 servings of burnt toast per week, would they eat enough carcinogens to get cancer?
    If a person (had smoke blown in their face at age 13 and then breathed in smoke from their babysitting grandparents would they get cancer?
    If a person went out drinking in bars pre-smoking ban every night and drank alcohol plus were surrounded by smoking people would they get cancer?
  • delskidelski Posts: 274
    If I don't have cancer already then please allow me to eat some armillatox.
  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Time to lay off the mushrooms?
  • delskidelski Posts: 274
    No, the problem is that I don't have any mushrooms.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Delski, you at least seem to be smoking some super strong skunk. Please lay off the mad theories.
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