Posted on 12/06/2011 5:28:07 AM PST by Kaslin
Can’t help but some of it being in the juice - it’s a natural thing, not as if they had to add it in.
There is also cyanide in Apricots. You eat the fruit and not the seed
It is a common practice in the commercial chicken industry to feed the chickens arsenic to kill parasites. The chicken litter that is then collected and sold in the big box stores as compost and manure has high levels of arsenic. This can migrate into your home grown veggies. This is one more reason to raise our own free range poultry.
Killed kids faster then right ?
It's the agenda of our Government to kill the innocent isn't it ?
Why not they put formaldehyde in Milk !
Killed kids faster then right ?
It’s the agenda of our Government to kill the innocent isn’t it ?
Sorry it posted twice
Was going to say that.
In any case, since we can detect part per billion, or even lower, you’ll find all sorts of “harmful” stuff in the innocuous places. We shouldn’t let the muckrakers and fear-mongers get us riled.
With that said, until a few years ago, the EPA drinking water standard for maximum arsenic concentration was three or four orders of magnitude higher than the current 10 parts per BILLION (it was in the hundreds of parts per million range). Then, a laboratory test was developed which was capable of detecting/measuring arsenic at the ppb level, and the EPA changed the standard.
There is no science behind this change whatsoever, and the EPA, FDA nor any other government acronym has determined what levels of arsenic (or of many other chemicals and contaminants) might be harmful to humans. They simply lower the allowable concentration every time a more accurate detection/measurement test is developed.
I am disappointed in Chuck Norris. It is out of character for him to be a henny-penny alarmist.
Should have been:
“...and NEITHER the EPA, FDA nor any other government acronym...”
Sorry.
If all you are getting from Chinese apple concentrate is a few parts per billion of arsenic you should consider yourself lucky.
We’re all gonna DIE.
They also need to look at Alar contamination!
Why didn't my mother care as much as "they" now do?
What we need is to coordinate these agencies. I propose a super agency to review all rules for coordination. We will call it the Department of Redundancy Department.
Don't forget PAY TAXES...
“Furthermore, data on arsenic in adult urine from the CDC demonstrated that men and women who drank apple or grape juice in a 24-hour period “had, on average, about 20 percent higher levels of total urinary arsenic than those subjects who did not.” In other words, people who did not drink either had arsenic in their urine.
If it is in the urine, some - who knows how much - is not in the human body. Where in heck do they think arsenic comes from??? It comes from the ground. Trees grow in the ground - - right actually in dirt.
The LD50 for metallic arsenic is 0.743.
That is about three ounces for a 200 lb. person.
At one part per million one would have to drink three millon ounces of juice. That is 23,437.5 gallons.
Minute' amounts can actually give you immunity to the poison, by your getting teeny amounts over a period of time...it would take a larger dose of that poison to kill someone that has been drinking their water over a period of time, than someone who has not been exposed to it..
Not saying its a good thing, but studies have been done of the amount of natural arsenic in water in rural area's...
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