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Aug 3, 2023Liked by Ursula Edgington, PhD

Pfizer Paxlovid can end up pumping more 1080 into the environment

https://geoffpain.substack.com/p/trifluoroacetate-from-pfizer-nirmatrelvir

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Do you know of a valid lab test for the the metabolite of 1080 in water, Geoff? NZ Gov is deliberately using a test that is 35 years old for the raw poison only, which easily dissolves in water. Its the reverse of Covid - dont look for it, you wont find it, rather than looking for anything at all and claiming “eureka!”

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Aug 3, 2023Liked by Ursula Edgington, PhD

New Zealand was part of a multinational Chemical Weapons discovery program and I know that covered 1080 and FluoroCitrate. You could perhaps do an archive search in NZ or it might need FOI to get things. Try Winston Peters for advice? Will see if I have anything useful. Metabolisn varies depending on aerobic or non-aerobic conditions and transformations by microorganisms and up the food chain.

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We need to talk!

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Aug 3, 2023·edited Aug 3, 2023Liked by Ursula Edgington, PhD

The document I was thinking about is probably D.E.A. RIVETT THE PREPARATION OF FLUOROCITRIC

ACID AND ATTEMPTED SYNTHESIS OF

FLUOROPYRUVIC ACID

from Porton Down TECHNICAL PAPER No. 319

Rivett was from South Africa

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Aug 3, 2023Liked by Ursula Edgington, PhD

March 1984

TOXIC CHARACTERISTICS OF FLUOROCITRATE, THE TOXIC

METABOLITE OF COMPOUND 1080

Peter J. Savarie Denver Wildlife Research Center, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

See if this link works https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1032

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Yup - and i have lots more like that from 10 years of research into this horror story! 1080science.co.nz

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Aug 3, 2023Liked by Ursula Edgington, PhD

If you have friends in UK they might have to visit National Archives, Kew for more.

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Bookmarked, thanks

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"The phrase "lethal synthesis" was penned by RA Peters (1952) to describe the biotransformation of fluoroacetate to fluorocitrate." Proc. Royal Soc. (London) B, 139:143-170

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