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12th March 2008, 09:43 PM #1Novice
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Labelling of plant poisons
I don't think GREEN is an ideal packaging colour to use for ROUNDUP weedkiller (or any product that kills anything), the colour suggests rather the opposite.
A similar looking spray device containing DEFENDER Insect spray (for plants) also has an almost identical colour.
My stupidity off course, but tonight nearing sunset I decided to spray all weeds in an area prepared for paving. I finished the entire container, only to realise I sprayed the weeds with Insect Spray intented for the young Photinias...
It could have been the other way round and I might have killed all the Photinias (100 of them)!!!
Yes I should have looked closed, but accidents hide in small corners.
Perhaps better colour coding for such products would be appropriate. Might contact the manufacturers.
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12th March 2008, 10:32 PM #3Novice
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12th March 2008, 11:20 PM #4
I remember a nasty story at TAFE years back about a particularly dangerous herbicide called Garlon. It is an S7 chemical, used for woody weeds such as blackberry and Gorse that roundup won't worry.
This stuff looks like a dark cola colour, some bright spark at a council decided to take a little bit out of a bottle and put it into a Coke bottle. To cut a long story short, a young bloke took a swig, which was his last- it ate through his guts from the inside out.
Good point about the roundup container, the amount of products around with green logos on them would make things confusing in the garden shed
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13th March 2008, 05:09 PM #7
You need to check the grams actime on the label Peter. Glyphosate 360 suggests that is 360 grams per litre active. "Roundup" can be 360, 450 or 590 grams per litre active
BS, Garlon is an S5 poison with an oral LD50 of >2,000mg per kilogramCheers,
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13th March 2008, 05:33 PM #8
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13th March 2008, 07:00 PM #9
Not sure if it was BS mate, just adding a story that the ag guy at a chemical users course explained to us?
He also mentioned other stories with the same chemical, of a guy getting cancer through leaning over a chemical-soaked propagating table and it absorbing into his skin, and a farmer also absorbing it through clothing from spray drift on his tractor. Not sure if this was garlon or otherwise
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