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Thats a cool link,Fido.Thanks a lot.Fido said:Look at the distribution map here:
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And some are found in remote mountain areas.
Yellow Jim said:Interesting paper here (well I think it is) on the detection of protected Eurasian badger hair in brushes sold in countries where they are protected. 50% of the brushes they tested was found to contain the protected hair type.
RB73 said:Yep, im trying to find the earliest of Fido's posts on a couple of the other sites from when he was trying to get information from brush makers marketing "Made in England".
Like you, a wall of silence and plenty of feathers ruffled.
For what I have been told today,Plisson uses Meles Meles and unless another more accurate info pop up,it seems thats how it is.Now the question is how on the earth do they manage to sell them in Europe without being penalize. :?henkverhaar said:Yellow Jim said:Interesting paper here (well I think it is) on the detection of protected Eurasian badger hair in brushes sold in countries where they are protected. 50% of the brushes they tested was found to contain the protected hair type.
Which is the paper I referred to in one of my original posts - in a previous thread. Note that even if brushes are made with Meles meles hair from chinese badgers, they are banned in countries that protect Meles meles, even if it is from a distinct subspecies. Unless they explicitly exclude a non-indigenous subspecies from their protection.
ALso note that if bush lots from china contain mixes of hog badger and eurasian badger hair, does that not at least suggest that there is no real (quality) difference between the two?
Teiste said:For what I have been told today,Plisson uses Meles Meles and unless another more accurate info pop up,it seems thats how it is.Now the question is how on the earth do they manage to sell them in Europe without being penalize. :?