To expand on this point, if you were to drink methanol (wood alcohol),
your body would metabolize it to formaldehyde and then formic acid.
It's the formic acid that would blind or kill you. (This happened a
lot during Prohibition.)
Jane Shevtsov
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:22 PM, David M.
...@fuzzo.com
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Good news from the Gulf? not so fast...
To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU
Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 3:22 PM
Metabolize is not the same as saying their bodies break down the
chemicals with no negative effects. All is says is their bodies process
When I went on my Great Gulf Coast Road Trip recently, I visited with several
biologists at the Gulf Coast Research Lab in Ocean Springs MS and one of them,
Mark Peterson, told me that most fish actually metabolize oil (PAH). This
abstract says These experiments confirm that the use of oil
Just because fish can metabolize oil doesn't mean that it doesn't have
toxic effects on them. Oil and its breakdown products, while they are
still around, can still have negative effects. But it does mean that fish
won't store it in their body over a long period of time (like DDT or PCBs
or
Metabolize is not the same as saying their bodies break down the
chemicals with no negative effects. All is says is their bodies process
the chemicals -- but the act of processing the chemicals or their
breakdown products may very well have harmful effects either right away
or at some point in
