Red wrote:
The EPA Restricted Use Pesticides listing lists creosote as having
oncogenic effects (capable of producing tumors) and mutagenic effects
(capable of mutating DNA & causing cancer). A political movement? Do
I take your word it's safe or the EPA's word that it isn't safe?

Nobody said creosote was safe. If you eat it you'll get sick. If you
roll around in it day in and day out for years and years without
protective clothing, you'll probably get cancer, or at least some
pretty nasty skin problems.

Everything isn't black and white. There are shades of gray, and this
one is a pretty light shade of gray.

The amount of creosote leaching from railroad ties used as landscape
timbers in your yard is tiny. The amount of contact you have with
these railroad ties is tiny. Unless you have an obsessive compulsive
need to roll around naked on bleeding railroad ties, or chew on them
like a beaver, you will not experience any adverse effects from the
simple presence of creosote.

You get more direct exposure to creosote from bonfires, your
fireplace, or your wood stove, but none of those are subject to the
same PANIC ALERT that these creosote-coated railroad ties are
receiving.