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- From: joshua@Veritas.COM (Joshua Levy)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: To all people who keep fish as pets/whatever
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.234629.11637@Veritas.COM>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 23:46:29 GMT
- References: <Ra1koB1w164w@aqua.ocunix.on.ca> <LAUB.92Jul28171224@laub.Software.Mitel.COM>
- Organization: VERITAS Software
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- Someone wrote:
- >Cowan> For those unaware, the regional municipality starts using
- >Cowan> chloramine to purify water today - a change from the previously
- >Cowan> used chlorine. Chlormaine is extermely toxic to fish, and even
-
- laub@Software.Mitel.COM (Boniface Lau) added:
- >If chlormaine is that toxic, should there be concern on its long term
- >effect on human consumption?
-
- My understanding is that Chlormaine works (on fish) by directly burning
- their gills in some way. So unless you have gills, I would not be to
- worried. It kills fish so quickly that there is no way to tell if
- would cause long term problems; and anyway, I don't think fish damage
- would be a good predictor of person damage.
-
- Joshua Levy (joshua@veritas.com)
-