Chilean fruit should be avoided generally since they use pesticides banned
in the USA.

This is from the 911 parrot alert list. These poor people lost 8 birds
after feeding grapes that came from Chili. While they cannot be 100%
sure yet all things point to the grapes. I thought it was worth letting
you all know. It's not worth taking the chance until we know for sure. I
will post news as I get it.
Merilee
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From:


          Hi all

                 Thank you for your prayers. We have lost Marmalade a M2
Sunny a U2 Lita a GSC Joe a U2 abigail a MSC Marly a U2 Tasha a U2 Marcy a
Noble Macaw and squally a pionus. This has devastated us they all died with
in Half hour of eating half a grape that were washed with anti bactirial
soap and rinsed well. We are taking birds to vet in morning for necropsy and
grapes to health department for testing as our 18 year old daughter got sick
at the same time as birds dieing. they all died with in minutes of each
other there was nothing we could have done we called 3 vets the fire
department was here to check for CO2 the police were here also the animal
cpntrol was here we are also working with the health department as this
happened last year here on the cape with fruit from chile but last year it
was people that got sick not birds that I know of. We did not know this till
the fire department came.


                 Please don't feed fresh fruit till we fined out for sure
what happened we can not say 100% it was the fruit but we will as soon as
the lab work comes back. But for now we are 99% sure it was the grapes.

                 Sterdon
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Subject: The necropsy is in

On February 24th, 2005 we suffered a devastating loss.

My family and ACPR has suffered an immense and incalculable loss.  TO have
these members of our flock ripped from us with no warning is something I
don't
wish for anyone to go through.

The necropsy is in, and it appears to be a natural toxin affecting the
nervous system.  The Toxin is caused by a mold growth in the meat of the
grape.




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