RE: plastic tanks and EDCs

["Genade Tyrone <tgenade at sun_ac.za>" <tgenade at sun_ac.za>]

I worry more about the little babies with ambiguous secondary sexual characterstics and deformed limbs... Never mind the other metabolic and brain chem abnormalities. Even more frightening is the idea that the EDC run off from Florida farms and indusry is killing off the aligators and creating bisexual fish (I've seen the pictures! a pregnant male livebearer!).

tt4n

Tyrone Genade 

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P450 Lab, Department of Biochemistry, University of Stellenbosch, Matieland 7602, South Africa 

"Seek your happiness in the Lord" Psalm 37:4 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph [mailto:eclod2002 at yahoo_com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 3:30 PM
> To: killietalk at aka_org
> Subject: Re: plastic tanks and EDCs
> 
> 
> This is sort of pathetic, but after reading a few posts about 
> plastic and its effects on fish development, i had a dream 
> (nightmare?) last night that I raised all my killifry in 
> plastic containers and all of them were caudal-less....
>  
> 
> 
> "Genade Tyrone <tgenade at sun_ac.za>" <tgenade at sun_ac.za> wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I checked with the ECD gurus... polypropylene plastics are 
> just as dangerous as the rest. Any plastic that has been 
> plasticized will release EDCs of some sort.
> 
> Best to stick with plastics regarded as safe for humans or 
> have showed no problems previously.
> 
> tt4n
> 
> Tyrone Genade 
> 
> http://tgenade.freeshell.org
> Ph: +27-021-558-1753 (h); +27-021-808-5876 (w); +27-084-335-4977 (c) 
> P450 Lab, Department of Biochemistry, University of 
> Stellenbosch, Matieland 7602, South Africa 
> 
> "Seek your happiness in the Lord" Psalm 37:4 
> 
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