My parents brought up five healthy children without resort to a battery of chemicals. Our homes were always immaculately clean, and although my mother took pride in keeping a clean, comfortable house, she wasn’t obsessed with germs and microbes. The range of cleaning products available to her then was limited by comparison with now, but they did the job. None of us have ever had ‘food poisoning’, or developed any food allergies or intolerances. Relatively few of the germs we might encounter daily are actually potentially dangerous. In an ‘Open University’ programme which I happened to see whilst working on this project, a bacteriologist, Professor John Stanton, suggested that because modern children don’t come into contact with as much dirt as they used to, their immune systems are not as well developed. Read the rest of this entry »
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Dirt -Package and vacuum formed blister-pack
January 6th, 2009
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Dirt – Information leaflet
January 6th, 2009
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Dirt – printed foil blister-pack
January 6th, 2009
Detail of printed foil on blister-pack.
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Dirt – part of installation view
January 6th, 2009
‘Dirt Tablet’ boxes as originally installed.
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Dirt – Not All Dirt Is Bad
January 6th, 2009
Detail of ‘Dirt’ tablets in vacuum pack.
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