"I'm a rocket man!"
Posted on 06/22/2004 7:13:31 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
Preliminary research shows traces of a rocket fuel ingredient in milk across California, prompting a debate about safety standards for the pervasive pollutant perchlorate.
In a report to be released today, the Environmental Working Group said its samples of supermarket milk generally confirm unpublished tests done by the California Department of Food and Agriculture, which in April sampled milk at a few dozen processors statewide.
Both the state and the Environmental Working Group said adults and children should keep drinking milk - which offers calcium and important vitamins - because little is known about risks of perchlorate in milk.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Huh, that would explain the transient I saw yesterday huffing a carton of 2%.
CDFA spokesman Steve Lyle said the samples were taken to test a new chemical-sensing tool and did not constitute a public health study.
Nice to see we get a scare story out of the use of an unaccredited piece of equipment in the testing stage.../sarc
Practically ALL "hazardous levels" are an arbitrary level set by envirowhackos disguised as politicians or bureauracrats.
Indeed. This is News?? We don't know the stuff is dangerous. We don't know if we really detected it. But, perhaps we ought to panic and put in place massive government regulations -- just to be "safe".
Hmmmm. Traces of rocket fuel found in milk.
There were traces of rocket fuel on a few seats on TWA 800.
Someone must have spilled a glass of milk on that airplane when the rocket hit.
"Industrial perchlorate uses include leather tanning, as a solid fuel for rockets, high explosives and fireworks, as a component of air-bag inflators, in electroplating and rubber manufacturing." from http://www.lanl.gov/worldview/news/releases/archive/00-025.shtml
Points to ponder:
1. Only a tiny percentage of the perchlorate chemicals manufactured actually go into rocket fuel, yet this is mentioned prominently to the exclusion of any other application.
2. The average audience member would not be aware that there is more than one kind of rocket fuel, and would therefore assume that all rockets are a hazard to THE CHILDREN.
The slicker arsonist uses perchlorate and permanganate too.
If the detection limits and "safe" levels didn't get lowered consistently a lot of regulators would be looking for real work and I might be working in mining...
What did you think was propelling all these superkids in California suburbia? It takes SOMETHING to keep them going out on the soccer field.
Not just your mother's milk anymore. Them California cows have GOT to have something extra to justify those huge factory farms running 24/7/365 pumping out the milk.
I left a Wisconsin dairy farm to go to California as a herdsman. The increase in the stress level in unimaginable.
and there has been numerous solid rocket motor tests and missile launches from california and the environment has taken a hit...haha
"I'm a rocket man!"
All jokes aside, my toddler daughter drinks an extraordinary amount of milk. No brands are named in this article, or stores, but something about this excerpt: "Of the 64 milk samples in the two studies, 63 had detectable perchlorate, a contaminant that is showing up at low levels in a wide range of foods. Half of the state's milk samples were above the level recently established by the state as posing "no significant health risk" for drinking water, though there's no agreement about what's safe in milk" leaves me a little uneasy.
Processing milk is "not known to concentrate the chemical"? Is it scientifically altered at all after processing, compared to what is found in drinking water?
Bush's fault, naturally.
Oh no! It's the recurring menace of Dihydrogen Monoxide!
Qwinn
Sheesh!
I never noticed the resemblance between young Elton John and Janet Reno before.
Is it due to the plastic cartons carrying the milk? Are they testing straight from the cow?
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