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Will Swiss Snow Make You Sick?
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A type of artificial snow used mostly in Switzerland, in places like Zermatt and Davos, called Snomax, which uses bacteria to blow more snow at higher temps, is being investigated for its alleged possible health effects on humans, flora and fauna:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3360831/Could-Swiss-skiing-holiday-make-ILL-Snomax-fake-snow-banned-Austria-Germany-used-Alps-bad-health-says-French-study.html


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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

@Whitegold, peer reviewed publication that then?

Will Snowmaking cause or cure cancer this week?? rolling eyes rolling eyes
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?


http://youtube.com/v/q3chJN9DCGg
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Your normal DM clientele will be more worried about Flomax than Snomax...
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old news, this from 2006

http://pistehors.com/news/ski/comments/ex-minister-takes-aim-at-snow-canons/
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"Will Swiss Snow Make You Sick?"

Only the yellow stuff.
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"Banned in Germany and Austria but used in the Alps" Who wrote this crap?
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 After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
After all it is free Go on u know u want to!

JamesN wrote:
"Banned in Germany and Austria but used in the Alps" Who wrote this crap?


It's in the Daily Mail. 'Nuff said.
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and unless I missed it, they didn't cite their source (which could well have been peer reviewed, I suppose).

I can well believe that some chemicals used to enhance snow making can be damaging. And that the manufactorers would assure their customers that it wasn't.
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It does kind of make sense - they're using a bacterium as a nucleus starter for snow formation which is common in the atmosphere and in plants all over the world. As it's so widespread, there isn't a non-natural deposit into the local environment, and because it'd dead, you're not increasing the pathogen density either.
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