Thanks for your sympathy. I was thumbless for three months and you can bet I was happy to get the plaster off. I needed a surgery, otherwise my left thumb would have been useless for the rest of my life.

At least in Finland everything has been going swell: I haven’t had any bad experiences. Besides not being malicious, I bet that Finnish shopkeepers should afraid of poisoning people. I will still heed your warnings.

Fortunately at least chlorine smells strongly so it would be easy to avoid. Other types of more harmful chemicals then again might be completely odorless. I don’t know of rat poisons, though.

I get only packaged or washable products. Bread, fruit and vegetables.