Aerotoxic Syndrome || The Guardian (UK) article
Aug 19, 2017, 6:41 am
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So we continue?
As you're not research based you'll probably not be up to date with the latest coshh regs? Have a butchers - to paraphrase, kerosine fumes or "smells" are not a good thing floating around a plane or a lab! Therefore your final sentence is slap bang incorrect.
As you're not research based you'll probably not be up to date with the latest coshh regs? Have a butchers - to paraphrase, kerosine fumes or "smells" are not a good thing floating around a plane or a lab! Therefore your final sentence is slap bang incorrect.
Kerosene fumes aren't particularly good for you (although not particularly bad in a low dose at the level that is not a constant occupational exposure and it stinks even at an extremely low dose so as a passenger the effects are generally safe to be assumed negligible) but in a different context altogether and needs to be kept separate for discussion as two issues are not really related.
Aug 19, 2017, 6:45 am
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So we continue?
As you're not research based you'll probably not be up to date with the latest coshh regs? Have a butchers - to paraphrase, kerosine fumes or "smells" are not a good thing floating around a plane or a lab! Therefore your final sentence is slap bang incorrect. I rest my case.
I'll see myself out.
As you're not research based you'll probably not be up to date with the latest coshh regs? Have a butchers - to paraphrase, kerosine fumes or "smells" are not a good thing floating around a plane or a lab! Therefore your final sentence is slap bang incorrect. I rest my case.
I'll see myself out.
If you truly think these are toxic fumes I suggest you stay away from any airport. Actually you should stay away from any petrol station too.
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Aug 20, 2017, 2:56 am
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I must admit that my first reaction to hearing about aerotoxic syndrome is to assume that people were imagining it. After looking at real research on the syndrome via google scholar, it looks as it appears that there is plausibly a problem here, and that research is needed. While it has not been shown that there is a real cause and effect (rather than the symptoms being psychological), it does appear that it cannot (yet?) be dismissed as yet another baseless health scare.
Aug 20, 2017, 5:53 am
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You knew exactly what he/she meant (as did probably every other reader), even if they didn't use terminology you approved of. This is now in TravelBuzz, so please keep the BA pedantry/twattishness out of it.
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Aug 20, 2017, 6:39 am
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Also please remind yourself of FT rules before posting, you should avoid getting personal with comments.
Aug 20, 2017, 6:52 am
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You may have misinterpreted my comment. The "p/t" bit was referring to the contents, nothing personal.
