Re: Safe Wood

**K* M* <k*@iol.ie>**

On 16 Feb 2010, at 20:41, eog9612@aol.com wrote:

> I can understand how the gentleman from Texas may have arrived at the conclusion that using pressure-treated wood around food crops is an acceptable risk.  We all make risk assessments every day - driving a car (Toyota notwithstanding), air travel, eating raw seafood, taking pharmaceutical drugs, etc., etc. And we make the decision (informed or otherwise) to accept the risk or not.

The Toyota analogy is a particularly good one as it happens. Out of the millions of Toyotas sold in Europe only 8 actually developed the fault. So I would regard driving a Toyota as pretty safe. Or I would have done if mine hadn't been one of the eight - the only one in Britain or Ireland. Since I was parking facing a stone wall when the accelerator decided to cut in.................

kathryn
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