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Default What's in brown pressure-treated wood?

On Jun 17, 1:41*pm, Tegger wrote:
harry wrote :

Arsenic is a cumulative poison. There is no "safe" level. As with
lead, cadmium and mercury.


Scientifically, that's complete nonsense.

For /all/ substances there is a threshold below which exposure does not
carry physiological or neurological harm. The dose makes the poison,
remember.

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Tegger


Radiation poisoning is cumulative too. Including X-rays.