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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"a risk evaluation approach"

let's get out our calculators..  here we type in how sweet my buzz is going to be.. here we type in the risk that I ruin my child's life.....

great, 91%! bottoms up![/quote]

I hope this is also the kind of calculation you do if you are considering eating a piece of melon (Listeria recalls last year) or getting in a car for a discretionary trip (e.g. visiting a friend, not going to work). You or your baby could DIE, so don't do it!

That is not risk evaluation, though. [/quote]

To be fair the odds of any given melon being contaminated are pretty low.  And I am not sure you can realistically reduce your risk of catching listeriosis to 0.

The chance of an alcoholic drinks containing alcohol is 100%.  And we 
know you can reduce the risk of FASD to 0 by not drinking alcohol.  Yes, there's no evidence that drinking a glass of wine with a meal can cause FASD, but it is fair to say that not drinking alcohol is one of the easier ways to prevent harm to a fetus.[/quote]

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