In Reply to: DDT and Itchy Bum posted by dadvet on Monday, 30. April 2007 at 09:36 Bali Time:
Thanks for your comments, based on your own practicle experience. As someone who feels/hopes that the food in Bali is less likely to be contaminated with potentially harmful pesticides/herbicides/hormones etc than at least some of what we probably get in Australia, I went looking on Google and found this World Health Organisation website:
http://www.searo.who.int/en/Section10/Section21/Section340_4022.htm
Here's what it says about DDT:
"DDT was banned from Java and Bali in 1990, and from the outer islands in 1992."
[I realise, of course, that DDT is also banned in Australia, but I'm not entirely happy about some of our other agricultural practises.]