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“IS IT safe?” Laurence Olivier’s Nazi torturer cryptically asked Dustin Hoffman’s “marathon man” in the 1976 movie of that name. The hero couldn’t answer the question, much like 91av on many occasions down the years. But we have often posed it nevertheless.
In our we queried whether DDVP, aka dichlorvos or 2,2-dichlorovinyl dimethyl phosphate, was safe for use in homes. DDVP was the active ingredient in Vapona, then the most popular fly killer in the UK. “If flies were really dangerous, it might make sense to insist we killed every one that flew in…
