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This is the next in my series of who knew what and when did they know that the milking equipment being marketed and used by dairy farmers was causing harm. This posting features US patent 4011838 from 1977 issued to Alfa-Laval (DeLaval). It states the following: "Prior art milking machines have generally tended to perform under an unvarying milking condition throughout the milking processes, subjecting the teats to a constant level of working vacuum and to an unvarying pulsation of the teat liners. Such an unvarying milking condition can be undesirable, both in terms of the safety for the animal being milked and in terms of the quantity and quality of the milk obtained.   If the teats are subjected to too high a level of working vacuum prior to the release of the cow's milk, the full vacuum acting upon the teat with no milk flow can injure the teat and may cause the cow discomfort, decreasing her milk production. Similarly, the risk of injury is great if the teats are subjected to the working vacuum after milk flow has ceased." How many dairy farmers have ever been informed that their milking equipment if flawed and that it and not them is responsible for these problems?

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Is the root cause of the many recent findings of pesticides in cannabis products along with some labs releasing bad or flat out falsified data due to issues with the "regulations"? A simple way to determine Root Cause is to ask, WHY, up to five times. I started with the question, "WHY have so many dangerous levels of pesticides been found in re-tested cannabis products after they had been reported by an accredited laboratory - no pesticides detected?" There's not enough characters allowed in a LinkedIn post, so I'll just jump to the end. EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS COMES DOWN TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY. That is at the essence of each state's regulations. That IS the ROOT CAUSE for requiring lab testing of all products. But only a few labs understand that is why they are needed. And even fewer growers and producers understand or even care about that. Honestly, how many producers out there even want lab testing to be a requirement? To most it's just a waste of money and only leads to complications. I would love to think that reading this is a "light bulb" moment for everybody who is involved in the cannabis and hemp industry. Care about your product and make sure all of your staff members care about your product. Care about the people who spend their money to purchase your product. Care that these people are not going to be harmed by something dangerous in your product or because you falsified data for the product your lab is providing. I'm certain some already do. So what are the rest of you going to do? #TrentHancock and I want to know. Immediately.

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Extremely disappointing from the National Framers Federation in their attitude to deadly Paraquat if this story is even remotely true. Paraquat (Sprayseed or Gramoxone) is horrendous. Practical yes, but deadly. Spray contractors hate it for the risk to them and their employees. Go into a country doctor's surgery and the biggest book on the shelf is the one on Paraquat poisoning. The slightest chance it causes Parkinsons is more than enough to warrant a ban. If you have faith in the APVMA that approves chemical use, you shouldn't. Not because of any conspiracy, but there are limits to what they can assess. In about 2008 I was working at a store selling a spray that had been approved as a safe chemical. Eventually someone "got around" to testing it for birth defects from exposure and it caused huge deformities in the test rat's young. Soon enough, an envelope full of stickers arrived and we relabelled it all as a dangerous poison. I have never trusted our systems for approving chemicals since. We should plan to ban Paraquat, because that will force practise and input change to occur. Do you think we would have stopped using DDT, Dieldren, Top Clip etc. etc if they weren't banned? Would we have the safer alternatives if they weren't banned? I think probably not. Well done Emma Germano for doing the RIGHT thing. People at the NFF need to realise the mistake they have made.

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