Jim replied:
"Were the test kits returned to Vita for analysis?"
One would hope so! Not my demonstration.
"Quality/purity issue?
Shelf life or handling issue?
Exposure to extremes of temperature in shipment?
A packaging problem?"
Not for me to know - but shelf life seems unlikely.
" Without objective criteria and a consensus on what objective
criteria are critical, you don't really have "observation"."
In my view (and our own NBU), the criteria for AFB are pretty clear.
" Nothing ever really was.
Nothing ever really is.
It has always been thus.
It shall always be thus".
Now that IS depressing!
" Consider your own childhood... it should be a miracle that any of us lived
to adulthood."
I had an email on a similar theme a few weeks ago. I know that it is a bit
off-topic but I have copied it below.
"Well, were the samples provided part of a "trial"... "
I'm not sure of their official status, but they are being demonstrated to
beekeepers - so we come full circle.
Peter Edwards
[log in to unmask]
www.stratford-upon-avon.freeserve.co.uk/
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids
in the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's shouldn't have survived.
Our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was
promptly chewed and licked.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or
cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.
When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip flops and fluorescent
'clackers' on our wheels.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in
the passenger seat was a treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle - tasted the same.
We ate dripping sandwiches, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop
with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always
outside playing.
We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no one
actually died from this.
We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed
down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into
stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back
before it got dark. No one was able to reach us all day and no-one minded.
We did not have Playstations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99
channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no
personal computers, no Internet chat rooms. We had friends - we went outside
and found them.
We played elastics and street rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt.
We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no
lawsuits. They were accidents. We learnt not to do the same thing again.
We had fights, punched each other hard and got black and blue - we learned
to get over it.
We walked to friend's homes.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate live stuff, and
although we were told it would happen, we did not have very many eyes out,
nor did the live stuff live inside us forever.
We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.
Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. The idea of a parent
bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with
the law. Imagine that!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem
solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of
innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and
responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
And you're one of them. Congratulations!
Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as real kids,
before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.
(If you aren't old enough, thought you might like to read about us).
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