Bracken has really taken a hold in this wild, upland area, creeping up the slopes of Snowdon and the surrounding mountains. Holm Rasmussen believes that the water supply to some of the farms and villages in Gwynedd may have been loaded with PTQs from bracken. To make matters worse, families living on dairy farms may have also been drinking contaminated milk. PTQs can be transferred into milk when cows nibble on bracken, particularly during the spring when the shoots are young and tasty.
Farmers often keep the buttermilk for their family, giving it to their children as a healthy drink. This buttermilk will have had the highest proportion of PTQs because it has not been diluted with milk from other, less bracken-infested farms. What is more, PTQs are attracted towards water, so tend to concentrate in the buttermilk, rather than enter the cream, butter and cheese that will have been made from the fat that was skimmed off.
Further afield PTQ contamination may also explain gastric and oesophageal cancer hot spots in South America. Small villages and farms are most vulnerable because they often take their water from just one source. What is perhaps more concerning is that it may not just be bracken that we need to worry about.
A number of important agricultural crops such as canola and clover already produce toxic natural products with similar structures to PTQ. These toxins are not carcinogenic, but may behave in a similar way in the soil.
Furthermore, many of the new GM crops, such as GM maize, are developed with an increased natural defence against pests and weeds, by inserting genes that code for the high production of toxic compounds. Given that crops are often planted on sandy soils with a high water table, some crops could have an even worse effect on the water supply than bracken. There are no easy solutions to this problem. Not only will the schefflera filter out tobacco smoke but benzene, formaldehyde and toluene too.
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