Posted on 08/19/2024 11:44:10 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Watch out Elon here they come!!
A lawfare and regulatory war on Musk.
So now they are adding jet gas to baby food? Geez what next? They going to have us drink bleach?
If this finding were reported forty or so years ago, before CR became woke, I might place some credence in it. Today? I dunno.
The least likely source of any contamination is of course what they lead in the headline.
Instead of headlining it “Pelosi’s numerous plastic surgeries ...”
;-D
Perchlorate is generally a component of solid rocket fuel. I’m not certain Space X is using anything like that.
Some fertilizers contain naturally occurring perchlorate, says Andrea Kirk, Ph.D., a toxicologist and professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. “These were widely used in agriculture and may be part of the reason why perchlorate is found in places that never had rockets,” she says....
SpaceX doesn’t use this in either their OLD (Falcon-9) rockets, or their new starship. Something else must be afoot.
As always, a watermelon: green on the outside, red on the inside.
“Some experts are raising a red flag after a component in rocket fuel was detected in food. “
How much? The levels they can detect today are infinitely minuscule. Can’t trust a bunch of leftists when it comes to…well anything. EVERYTHING I s political with them.
I think you are behind the times. Leftists only care about “climate change” now. Bringing up matters of big business poisoning us is usually left to conservatives.
WHAT "perchlorate"? Ammonium? Potassium? Sodium? Something else? Is anyone at Consumer Reports smart enough or educated enough to comprehend the question?
It was used as dry cleaning fluid, but not anymore. I used to have some. Wish I still did.
Perchlorate “can also be a breakdown product of bleach,”
You mean the chemical used to sanitize every surface and machine used to process foods in every commercial processing plant and restaurant kitchen everywhere for the last 100 years?
But let’s blame it on rocket fuel.
I lived in San Martin, CA in 2003 when they discovered that our water had perchlorate from an old road flare factory (Olin). I moved out of there as I had young kids.
So a test for perchlorate reveals food contains natural components.
But since the same chemical is in jet fuel, we need to panic.
Good thing they're not testing for carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, or oxygen.
WHAT "perchlorate"? Ammonium? Potassium? Sodium? Something else? Is anyone at Consumer Reports smart enough or educated enough to comprehend the question?
To be fair: Perchlorates are ionic substances - so as soon as they are released into an uncontrolled environment (like the groundwater) where lots of other ionic compounds are present, all you really have is a mess of freely mixing (perchlorate) anions and (ammonium, potassium, etc.) cations.
Regards,
Oxygen, an essential component of combustion, has been found in vast quantities in tap water across the US...
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