According to US researchers, moonshine can contain potentially hazardous levels of lead, up to 599 parts per billion apparently…

599?

What are they on about? That’s an accuracy of 0.000001% isn’t it. Surely, the ill effects of drinking this stuff whether it…

Dear Ms BBC

Crisis aside, benzene is not a “toxin”, it is toxic yes, but the two things are not synonymous.

Thank you

D Bradley
The Pedant Council of GB

PS I assume you’re a Ms as you’re an “Aunty”

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I really oughtn’t to give him the free publicity but an article by Ian Wylie in The Guardian (Should I bother to get a flu vaccination?, October 29, 2005) suggests in its opening sentence that Tamiflu is a vaccine. I…