Just a Safety Note!

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I've been reading about the plexi finish experiments and today at Bubbasville East we were talking about it.

It may see obvious, but I hope that you guys/gals are clearly marking your experimental bottles---especially the babyfood bottles---to indicate what is in them and placing them where little hands can't get to them.

The reason I tell you this is that a year ago a youngster on a farm mixed up a poisonous animal dip in a gator ade container and walked away to do something else...in the meantime his mom took a drink of what looked like water and was almost dead when he returned.

Unfortunately, she died and he has a lot of guilt to live with now.

PLEASE BE CAREFUL!
 
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Too true, Joe. Keeping it out of the way can also be more important than labelling it. Little kids can't read, but can recognise the container. I lived in South Africa for many years and there were always kids dying from drinking parrafin. You used to be able to buy it from stores and use your own bottles. The poorer folks used it in lamps ( no electricity ) but stored it in Coke bottles under the kitchen sink.

But it's not just kids that get it badly wrong. I'll post a story in CC that is quite funny.

Thanks for reminding us[:D]
 
Good advice, all this. I was trained as a research chemist, and one of the first rules of lab safety is always to label any container. Just do it! [xx(]
 
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<br />Too true, Joe. Keeping it out of the way can also be more important than labelling it. Little kids can't read, but can recognise the container. I lived in South Africa for many years and there were always kids dying from drinking parrafin. You used to be able to buy it from stores and use your own bottles. The poorer folks used it in lamps ( no electricity ) but stored it in Coke bottles under the kitchen sink.

But it's not just kids that get it badly wrong. I'll post a story in CC that is quite funny.

Thanks for reminding us[:D]
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Parrafin in Queen's English, for those who may not know, is what we Yanks call kerosene. [;)]
 
Skye, poisonous animal dip is any liquid used to kill parasites that are in / on normally domestic animals. Like sheep, cattle, dogs and cats. Gets rid of fles,ticks etc
You know that flea stuff you stick drops of behind a cats head? Well don't do like we did and put it on a cats shoulders. It licked it off. Went bazerk !! One week on a vets drip and £400 bill.
 
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