And now for somelthing completely different: a question about rat poison
Okay, I realise this sounds a bit alarming after last night's/today's posts ;-) but the point of this post is to *avoid* poisoning myself, honest.
Here's the situation: this winter, we had a mouse problem in our flat. We tried everything, and everything we tried failed, so our landlord, who travels to India a lot on business, and swears by Indian rat poison in cases like this, got us two tabs of rat poison from India. I don't know how exactly my flatmates used it, because it happened while I was staying with my parents during my thesis writing period, but when I returned, there was a bucket full of saucers and teacups containing rat poison residue in the pantry. (Incidentally, the mouse was entirely unimpressed by the rat poison and lived happily ever after, as far as we can tell. It *finally* seems to have left the flat now, though - months after the rat poison maneuvre - because it's getting warm outside now. We haven't been finding droppings for a while.)
Nobody was very eager to clean the contaminated crockery for months, but today somebody apparently did, because the bucket is gone and the saucers and cups are drying on the rack.
Now, my question: do you think it's safe to use these, considering that there may still be trace amounts of rat poison on them? I'd hate to throw away perfectly usable crockery; on the other hand, I'd hate even more for us to accidentally poison ourselves...
Here's the situation: this winter, we had a mouse problem in our flat. We tried everything, and everything we tried failed, so our landlord, who travels to India a lot on business, and swears by Indian rat poison in cases like this, got us two tabs of rat poison from India. I don't know how exactly my flatmates used it, because it happened while I was staying with my parents during my thesis writing period, but when I returned, there was a bucket full of saucers and teacups containing rat poison residue in the pantry. (Incidentally, the mouse was entirely unimpressed by the rat poison and lived happily ever after, as far as we can tell. It *finally* seems to have left the flat now, though - months after the rat poison maneuvre - because it's getting warm outside now. We haven't been finding droppings for a while.)
Nobody was very eager to clean the contaminated crockery for months, but today somebody apparently did, because the bucket is gone and the saucers and cups are drying on the rack.
Now, my question: do you think it's safe to use these, considering that there may still be trace amounts of rat poison on them? I'd hate to throw away perfectly usable crockery; on the other hand, I'd hate even more for us to accidentally poison ourselves...