Re: question

[Byron Bodo <bodo@interlog.com>]

At 07:26 PM 24/12/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi, Dennis,
>
>      I have not seen a specific analysis of coffee, but given how it is
>grown and processed, it is likely to have some dioxin on it:
>
>1. Coffee growers apparently prefer to use the U.S.-banned pesticide
>Dieldrin (I think this is discussed in Diet For A Small Planet, but may have
>been somewhere else...). The pesticide residue is measureable in the coffee.

And just where pray tell does this dieldrin come from?  The last major
multinational
producer, Shell, phased out aldrin/dieldrin production about the end of
1991 about
when the the last major users (India, Australia) effected bans.  Mexico was
producing
endrin at one time & conceivably could crank out any of the old cyclodiene
insecticides if it chose.

>
>Best to drink Cafe Altura, grown organically (Mexico, I believe).

Grown with organic chemicals is it? 

-bb