Paint and Fumigation

[HooahArmy]

I think this has now become a thread of chemical-related horror stories...
Back when my father was a kid in Norway, he recalled his mum making food on a large iron stove in the kitchen. As she cooked, a strand of ants began to wind their way over the wall that backed the stovetop. According to my father, his good ol' ma took a huge can of questionable insect killer and began to throughly spray the wall, generating fallout on the food in the process. Everybody still ate as usual and it took my father 40 years to realize that had been shady.

 

[MYSpooder]

@HooahArmy Right up your alley.
I've been meaning to ask, how common is the use of DDVPs (et al, dichlorvos) these days? I know about the uproar and ban, but my understanding it the crap is still used throughout many aspects of manufacturing to the present. I am aware of how thorough and rigorous the FDA is about use and testing - pardon the sarcasm - but a tremendous amount of manufactured goods all or in components come from overseas where things are a little more lax and fragrant grease often runs the show in the approvals processes.
(Got an organism problem cutting into your profits? Dichlors will fix that pronto! I noticed mold and mildew resistant paints oddly had the stuff in the MSDS data sheet. Page 17, at the bottom in 1/2 point type, May Contain no more than....That's a little weird. )

Dichlorvos (EHC 79, 1988)

It literally changes their DNA for generations and stays in the ground water to boot!

Travelling the countryside in Indoinesia. Large containers on the side of the road. It took me hours of wracking my brain then some research. We don't use DDT! It's gone.
That stuff is...... studying carefully, just dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane. Right. Like the average salesperson or farmer can work their way through that one.

A study done by HSU in northern Calif. Decline of a certain raptor. Thin egg shells and very high infant motality rate. And DDT hadn't been used for decades within 100 miles of that valley.