No and I'll reply again. Read the posts already made on the subject. search the Forum, read the chemical datasheets, read the full MSDS.
You have to realise people here are beginning to get fed up with alarmist posts like "But since it concerns my future kids Id feel a bit bad using it". You also need to realise that children are far more in danger from household products, yes it's up to you to be aware and take due diligence.
The most dangerous chemical they'll come in contact with is water and a lot of it, but you die of dehydration if you don't get enough, die if you drink far too much, drown if you fall into it, break a limb if you slip when it's froze, get hypothermia or frostbite if you get caught out in the snow, get burnt if it forms steam, all if you don't take the right precautions. When you think like that it puts things in perspective.
Photography was once very dangerous and people died and still cpiuld but it's wet plate workers using cyanide and ether, early use of magnesium powder as flash powder, rather than normal film & print processing.
You need to read ALL the health and safety precautions needed for darkroom work, they are really just common sense rather than being alarmist.
Ian
I've seen plenty of people poisoned by art projects, or who have gotten cancer, even a few died from it. Don't take anything for granted. Read the MSDS sheets. Wear gloves and have adequate ventilation. Most common black and white "beginner" darkroom chemicals are quite mild; many color printing chemicals are not. And some alternative process ingredients are downright nasty. That being said, there are not only darkroom people in this world but lawyers and liability insurance companies. In other words, any supplier of such ingredients is stupid if
they don't supply the "fine print" label with the product.
''Genetic defects'' and ''Suspected of causing cancer'' Thats what was what caught my attention on the back of my lifer multigrade paper developer, I was expecting the warning label to be the same as ID-11, But Thay were a bit more off putting. Is this just covering there ass, Or is there some thing especially toxic about lifords developer,
My darkroom has an extraction fan, I always ware gloves, But since it concerns my future kids Id feel a bit bad using it If I ware not sure its safe. So I continued using caffenol-c for the time been,
How long have they been manufacturing it?, And has there ever been a bad story about it?, Are there any safer paper developers?,
Lan, I think you might be taking things a bit to seriously, I'm not alarmed, Nor am I trying to alarm any one, It was just one of them throw a way comments, There really was nothing to it,
I really don't see why it would irritate you so much, Are you having marital problems? woke up on the wrong side of the bed? Its unusual for some one to be so up tight when a newbie says things you think are stupid.
By the way if I'm really getting on your wick, I'm sorry, :munch:But the angrier people get, The more annoying I become, Take that emoji for example, its just so enraging isn't it?
Just to put things in perspective, You could be in Palestine.
Karen and I were at Letchworth SP in N.Y. last fall, the California registered car parked next to us had a health warning sticker in the window, could be hazardous or cause death or some such crap, the owner said it was real.
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