Re: Dow's test...cost of d/f testing

[philip@prcn.org (Philip Fleischer)]

>I realize this doesn't appeal to the conspiracy impulse, but another possible
>interpretation is that it either isn't as inexpensive or as sensitive as Dow
>had hoped.  Sometimes, as Freud said, a cigar is only a cigar.

Any appeal to the conspiracy impulse is unintentional and in my opinion
quite unproductive.  Institutional theory is something else, more often
on another list though, but if we want to take it up.....


Definitely because Dow bought into it, they took a stake and some measure
of control.

I can't now remember much of the details but I thought this was based
on immunoassay.  Life is more sesnitive to dioxin than the machines now
routinely used and the reactions of organisms have been finely tuned to
indicate levels of specific contaminants, like MetPad and other tests.

Can anyone could post more on this, I think it is worth pursuing.



Philip Fleischer   philip@prcn.org