Subject: Re EMF/chemical connection?? (Kamp) (Kingsbury)..
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 210739 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:01:05 -0400
From: Bill Kingsbury
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Re: EMF/chemical connection?? (KampP..
Hi Roy,
To the best of my limited knowledge:
Electrical and electronic devices commonly include circuit boards
and/or coils and transformers. Circuit boards and non-enclosed
coils and transformers are often (usually?) coated with an
insulating varnish that is often (usually?) made from TUNG OIL --
at least this was common several years ago, and it may still be
the case. When electronic circuits and electrical coils and
transformers are in operation, they generate heat, and this heat
slowly evaporates the tung oil, which is a neurological toxin.
New electrical and electronic devices may off-gas toxic tung oil
vapors when in use, if tung oil varnish is present, with the rate
of evaporation slowly decreasing over time, as the volatile
fractions dissipate into the user's building or vehicle for
assimilation by all living organisms present.
Sensitive people would be well advised to purchase and use 'aged'
(pre-owned?) electrical and electronic equipment, IF the equipment
produces heat and contains tung oil varnish -- or to hermetically
seal (or specially ventilate) any such new electr. equipment --
or suffer the consequences.
Does anyone have more information about tung oil, and the
current extent of its usage in electronics ?
Bill K.
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Tung-Oil Tree / Aleurites fordii Hemsl. / Euphorbiaceae
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from: http://www.freehomepages.com/bhcof/abt.htm
About tung oil
Tung Oil is pressed from the nuts of Tung tree is known also as
China wood oil and nut oil. Major producing countries are
mainland China (Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan) and South America
(Argentina and Paraguay), United States and Africa. The largest
application for the oil is paint and varnish, and also wide
utilized by soap, inks, electrical insulators.
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from: http://www.drjgoldstein.com/books/limbic/limbicintro.html
Chronic Fatigue Syndromes: The Limbic Hypothesis
by Jay A. Goldstein, M.D.
Euphorbia, a plant that produces phorbol esters, which are oncogenic
by virtue of stimulation of protein kinase C. Tung oil present in
sealants and varnishes is made from Euphorbia and has been proposed
as a causative agent for chronic fatigue syndrome. Protein kinase C
also produces long-term depression of synaptic efficiency and may be
implicated in the encephalopathy of CFS.
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from: http://www.ny2aap.org/npsherbs.html
Lin T-J, Hsu C-I, Lee K-H:
Two outbreaks of Acute Tung Nut poisoning
Clin Toxicol 1996:34:87-92.
"TUNG NUT" (Aluerites fordii, Tung oil tree, Chinawood Oil tree) is
distributed in SW United States, Taiwan, mainland China, Japan and
India. Traditionally prescribed for constipation, erysipelas, skin
burns and scabies, and many other ailments. Onset was 42-121 minutes
faster in the younger children. The manifestations include vomiting
up to 10 times, abdominal pain, diarrhea, muscle weakness, dizziness,
fatigue, sore throat, headache, chilly, sweating and tremor.
Hyperglycemia was reported in 7 cases up to 394 mg/dL.
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from: http://www.freehomepages.com/bhcof/msds.htm
MSDS -- MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEET
Trade Name: TUNG OIL/CHINAWOOD OIL
Special Hazard Precautions:
ACUTE & CHRONIC: STORE BETWEEN 70-90F. KEEP AWAY FROM HEAT, SPARKS
AND OPEN FLAME. ACUTE: INHALATION: GIDDINESS, HEADACHES, DIZZINESS
AND NAUSEA. SKIN AND EYE: SKIN AND EYE IRRITANT.
Work Hygienic Practices:
DO NOT EAT, DRINK OR SMOKE AROUND PRODUCT. WASH HANDS AFTER USE.
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>Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:56:01 +0200
>From: Staffan Crona
>To: rbeavers@llion.org
>Subject: Plastic shield
>
>I got a telephone call from the labour inspector Sven Persson in Malmoe,
>Sweden, who told me about a very simple solution for an ES person. Sven
>who have been working with the question of ES and SBS for many years
>thinks that most of the ES is chemical sensitivity induced and suggested
>to an ES person to put a ordinary plastic ethene bag over the line
>telephone and the mobile telephone and test. The ES person have now used
>this simple cover for more than two weeks and have no longer any problem
>using the phones. It would be interesting to hear about more ES people
>who test this simple method to reduce the chemical output from
>telephones.
>
>Staffan Crona
>
>
>
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