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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Yes, keep your bees healthy, but please be sure to protect the beekeeper. Sublimation carries serious health risks. You must wear appropriate safety gear, including
acid resistant gloves, goggles, and a RESPIRATOR! Beekeepers should proceed with caution. A dust mask will not suffice!
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">The benefits to sublimation in varroa control may not be worth the extra risk to the beekeeper. Trickling is far less dangerous, as the oxalic is not transformed
into fumes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default">See the attached risk assessment, which includes the following info:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Potential Acute Health Effects:
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Hazardous in case of skin contact (irritant), or ingestion. Slightly hazardous in case of eye contact (irritant), or inhalation. Severe over-exposure can produce lung damage, choking, unconsciousness or death.
The product is a severe irritant for lungs and respiratory tract. Ingestion may result in joint pain and kidney failure.
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Potential Chronic Health Effects:
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The substance is toxic to lungs, mucous membranes. Repeated or prolonged exposure to the substance can produce target organ damage. Repeated or prolonged exposure to the gas can produce lung damage.
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kelly Rourke<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 25, 2016 2:09 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> pollinator@coevolution.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Pollinator] FW: Press Release from the International Bee Research Association<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Norman Carreck [mailto:<a href="mailto:carrecknl@ibra.org.uk">carrecknl@ibra.org.uk</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 25, 2016 8:02 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> NORMAN CARRECK<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Press Release from the International Bee Research Association</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Please find Press Release.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Best wishes,<br>
<br>
Norman Carreck.<br>
<br>
Science Director,<br>
International Bee Research Association,<br>
Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects,<br>
School of Life Sciences,<br>
University of Sussex,<br>
Falmer,<br>
Brighton,<br>
East Sussex,<br>
BN1 9QG,<br>
United Kingdom.<br>
Tel: +44 (0) 1273 872587<br>
Mobile: +44 (0) 7918670169<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:norman.carreck@btinternet.com">norman.carreck@btinternet.com</a><br>
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