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[Locutus]

Drinking from the garden hose WILL KILL YOU says scientists that weren't alive when the hose was the only way to get water



Don’t Drink The Water: Study Warns Drinking From Garden Hose



WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — Beware of drinking from the garden hose as temperatures soar toward 100 degrees.

A new study conducted by Healthy Stuff finds drinking water from a garden hose can be dangerous to your health.

Of the 90 water hoses used in the study, all contained lead and phthalates that exceeded levels set by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Thirty-three percent of those hoses contained lead levels higher than the guidelines set in the federal Safe Drinking Water Standard.

The four phthalates found in the water are currently banned from being used in children’s products.

The tests also showed that the drinking water from a hose contained PVC plastic additives, which can cause birth defects, liver toxicity, and cancer.

The study suggests that you should always stay away from drinking from a hose to beat the heat, but if you need to, to always let it run for a few seconds.



Don’t Drink The Water: Study Warns Drinking From Garden Hose « CBS DC




OMFG! We're all gonna die!!!!!


I took in enough, ahem, 'phthalates' as kid to prove these busybody eggheads wrong. Not to mention riding my bike behind mosquito foggers, eating food dropped on the ground (including peanuts and other deadly nuts), running with sticks and sitting too close to the TV. Bite me.

 

[relic]

The stuff I've done,there's no way I should be alive and healthy,but here I am,over 60 and nothing wrong with me,whoda thunk ?

 

[JLM]

The stuff I've done,there's no way I should be alive and healthy,but here I am,over 60 and nothing wrong with me,whoda thunk ?

One of the main causes of so much sickness today is we've become too sanitized and too paranoid, half the women in the country are afraid to touch the knob on the bathroom door. When I was a kid there was a saying "you have to eat a peck of dirt in your life".

 

[taxslave]

The stuff I've done,there's no way I should be alive and healthy,but here I am,over 60 and nothing wrong with me,whoda thunk ?

That's only because no one told you all those things would kill you.

 

[Cliffy]

Ya! It's a Canadian tradition, eh! We are a bunch of hosers after all.

 

[Spade]

The ignorant always claim to know more than scientists. Makes you wonder why the ignorant haven't cured cancers or travelled to the stars on their own ships. They must be holding back.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I took in enough, ahem, 'phthalates' as kid to prove these busybody eggheads wrong. Not to mention riding my bike behind mosquito foggers, eating food dropped on the ground (including peanuts and other deadly nuts), running with sticks and sitting too close to the TV. Bite me.

Well that explains a lot ....


j/k

 

[lone wolf]

Is that an old water hose or one of the new made offshore versions? Hell, the hose was a fountain on the farm