Glaucus
Omono
The most hazardous chemicals are not the chemicals that cause the most accidents and injuries in the lab.
Additionally, a chemical you don't feel when it touches your skin, but does injure you, is exactly the opposite of what you want.
One mistake with 20% hydrogen peroxide 2% peroxyacetic acid, and you could be permanently blind.
Of course once diluted, it is a while different scenario.
Mixtures that contain a peroxide are also potentially more dangerous.
But aerosolizing a chemical is also a potential risk factor.
Then there is the chronic exposure. A chemical can be harmless on an acute basis. But using it daily for 20 years could potentially slowly poison you.
Here in the Netherlands there are a lot or agriculture and cut flower workers with a higher than average rate of certain diseases.
For OxyCide, (also H2O2 and PAA) there is a class-action lawsuit by medical workers that sued their employees/hospitals.
Note that accidents happen when one or often two more things go wrong. Like preparing a dilution ten times too concentrated, but then spilling it in your eyes.
In Japanese bonsai, they like to teach spraying like crazy. Not sure if they respect SDS or PPE. But Ryan Neil has said that this approach has not worked at all at his Oregon nursery and that at some point all his plants were dying.
Not sure what PPE is recommended for this product. Goggles for sure seem wise. But if you need to suit up to spray your bonsai, I would seek out a different product or solution.
Additionally, a chemical you don't feel when it touches your skin, but does injure you, is exactly the opposite of what you want.
One mistake with 20% hydrogen peroxide 2% peroxyacetic acid, and you could be permanently blind.
Of course once diluted, it is a while different scenario.
Mixtures that contain a peroxide are also potentially more dangerous.
But aerosolizing a chemical is also a potential risk factor.
Then there is the chronic exposure. A chemical can be harmless on an acute basis. But using it daily for 20 years could potentially slowly poison you.
Here in the Netherlands there are a lot or agriculture and cut flower workers with a higher than average rate of certain diseases.
For OxyCide, (also H2O2 and PAA) there is a class-action lawsuit by medical workers that sued their employees/hospitals.
Note that accidents happen when one or often two more things go wrong. Like preparing a dilution ten times too concentrated, but then spilling it in your eyes.
In Japanese bonsai, they like to teach spraying like crazy. Not sure if they respect SDS or PPE. But Ryan Neil has said that this approach has not worked at all at his Oregon nursery and that at some point all his plants were dying.
Not sure what PPE is recommended for this product. Goggles for sure seem wise. But if you need to suit up to spray your bonsai, I would seek out a different product or solution.
