From: Linda Burton <lburton@cce.cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Natural vs. Man-made pesticides: Threat to human health posed by minute residues of man-made chemicals is small
To: owner-ismnt mailing list <ismnt@pprz03.HRZ.Uni-Marburg.DE>
cc: ismnt@lists.uni-marburg.de
In response to naturally occurring toxins in plant foods. Both parsnips
and raw mushrooms contain naturally occurring toxic cpds. When I
asked several plant toxins specialists at Cornell about these veggies, their
response was that although both
contained toxic substances, one would have to eat parsnips every day for
quite a while to have any effect. A balanced and varied diet is
protective in many ways!
Linda Burton, M.S.
lburton@cce.cornell.edu
Jamestown, N.Y.