Posted on 05/20/2009 12:29:09 PM PDT by Scythian
Virtually all "protein bars" on the market today are made with soy protein. Many infant formula products are also made with soy protein, and thousands of vegetarian products (veggie burgers, veggie cheese, "natural" food bars, etc.) are made with soy protein. That soy protein is almost always described as safe and "natural" by the companies using it. But there's a dirty little secret the soy product industry doesn't want you to know: Much of the "natural" soy protein used in foods today is bathed in a toxic, explosive chemical solvent known as hexane.
To determine the true extent of this hexane contamination, NaturalNews joined forces with the Cornucopia Institute (www.Cornucopia.org) to conduct testing of hexane residues in soy meal and soy grits using FDA-approved and USDA-approved laboratories. The Cornucopia Institute performed the bulk of this effort, and NaturalNews provided funding to help cover laboratory costs.
The results proved to be worrisome: Hexane residues of 21ppm were discovered in soy meal commonly used to produce soy protein for infant formula, protein bars and vegetarian food products.
These laboratory results appear to indicate that consumers who purchase common soy products might be exposing themselves (and their children) to residues of the toxic chemical HEXANE -- a neurotoxic substance produced as a byproduct of gasoline refining.
(Excerpt) Read more at naturalnews.com ...
Wasn’t it just around Christmas 2006 that a large dihydrogen monoxide release killed several thousand in Thailand?
Don't even get me started on the dangers of Dihydrogen monoxide.
Do you have any idea how many people die from its effects every day?
Lots. That's how many.
Won't someone please think of the children and ban these killer substances?
OSHA DATA (Sax):
PEL: 50 ppm TWA (transitional, 500 mg/cubic meter)
ACGIH TLV: 50 ppm TWA
NIOSH REL: 350 mg/cubic meter
Toxicity Data of note (Sax):
orl-rat (LD50): 28710 mg/kg
From the NIOSH Chemical Handbook
n-Hexane CAS 110-54-3
CH3[CH2]4CH3 RTECS MN9275000
Synonyms & Trade Names
Hexane, Hexyl hydride, normal-Hexane DOT ID & Guide
1208 128
Exposure
Limits NIOSH REL: TWA 50 ppm (180 mg/m3)
OSHA PEL†: TWA 500 ppm (1800 mg/m3)
IDLH 1100 ppm [10%LEL] See: 110543 Conversion 1 ppm = 3.53 mg/m3
Physical Description
Colorless liquid with a gasoline-like odor.
MW: 86.2
BP: 156°F
FRZ: -219°F
Sol: 0.002%
VP: 124 mmHg
IP: 10.18 eV
Sp.Gr: 0.66
Fl.P: -7°F
UEL: 7.5%
LEL: 1.1%
Class IB Flammable Liquid: Fl.P. below 73°F and BP at or above 100°F.
Incompatibilities & Reactivities
Strong oxidizers
Measurement Methods
NIOSH 1500, 3800; OSHA 7
See: NMAM or OSHA Methods
Personal Protection & Sanitation (See protection codes)
Skin: Prevent skin contact
Eyes: Prevent eye contact
Wash skin: When contaminated
Remove: When wet (flammable)
Change: No recommendation
First Aid (See procedures)
Eye: Irrigate immediately
Skin: Soap wash immediately
Breathing: Respiratory support
Swallow: Medical attention immediately
Respirator Recommendations NIOSH
Up to 500 ppm:
(APF = 10) Any supplied-air respirator*
Up to 1100 ppm:
(APF = 25) Any supplied-air respirator operated in a continuous-flow mode*
(APF = 50) Any self-contained breathing apparatus with a full facepiece
(APF = 50) Any supplied-air respirator with a full facepiece
Emergency or planned entry into unknown concentrations or IDLH conditions:
(APF = 10,000) Any self-contained breathing apparatus that has a full facepiece and is operated in a pressure-demand or other positive-pressure mode
(APF = 10,000) Any supplied-air respirator that has a full facepiece and is operated in a pressure-demand or other positive-pressure mode in combination with an auxiliary self-contained positive-pressure breathing apparatus
Escape:
(APF = 50) Any air-purifying, full-facepiece respirator (gas mask) with a chin-style, front- or back-mounted organic vapor canister/Any appropriate escape-type, self-contained breathing apparatus
Important additional information about respirator selection
Exposure Routes inhalation, ingestion, skin and/or eye contact
Symptoms Irritation eyes, nose; nausea, headache; peripheral neuropathy: numb extremities, muscle weakness; dermatitis; dizziness; chemical pneumonitis (aspiration liquid)
Target Organs Eyes, skin, respiratory system, central nervous system, peripheral nervous system
See also: INTRODUCTION See ICSC CARD: 0279 See MEDICAL TESTS: 0114
Most exposure is inhalation. Question is, how much are you consumin’? 21 ppm is a small amount, but people who are health food nuts (vegans) tend to get a large dose of naturally occurring pesticides, and might get a large dose of n-Hexane. Vegans tend to develop heart and arterial disease at a greater rate than the general population, as I understand.
Keep on posting, Scythian. Good info.
I suffer from Morgellons, most Morgellons sufferers are producing plastic (I’m not talking fibers) but actual plastic bits inside thier bodies, strange but true, they are forced up through the skin. All this builds up and some chemical process starts inside the human body, it can be stopped, but you have to move to all natural foods, vegetables, fruits and then do other things, I’m living proof. This is why a Meth user breaks out in lesions and thinks he has bugs crawling all over him, nothing but sheer toxins, and many of them found right in our food supply and we breath all day via BTEX fumes and it’s in our water. When you add up the totality of the toxins we are being exposed to it is taking it’s toll in the forms of many names, but most terrying is Morgellons.
My rule-of-thumb is that the newer and more exotic the process, the more likely you don’t want to know how it’s done....
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Ok. I'll bite. Why is that, exactly?
For the record, green soybeans taste like rancid fish smells to me, but the dried ones are fine.
There’s no beer on that list, so I’d survive ; )
Health improves greatly when it is eliminated.
Shop the outside of the grocery store, grow your own or shop the farmers’ markets.
Lots of bold, not much real data. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexane#Toxicity what these guys are detecting is way below the dangerous levels “cases of polyneuropathy have typically occurred in humans chronically exposed to levels of n-hexane ranging from 400 to 600 ppm, with occasional exposures up to 2,500 ppm.”
Hexane extraction is used by 98% of all vegetable oil producers world-wide - cotton, soybean, palm, etc.. and has been the standard for many decades.
Hexane is not released into the atmosphere (it is recycled) and it does not remain in the food.
Read up on our foodstuffs of the 1800s. The "good olde days".
Cheese may actually have been soap and milk was watery chalk dust.
Specifically, look up details about the New York Swill Milk Scandal of the 1800's. It is estimated to have killed as many as 8,000 American children a year until it was stopped.
Bee Wilson's book Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud From Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee is a good place to start.
Basic GNC remedies and vitamins are OK but some damned yogurt to help people crap is too much.
If you are female- the menapause Vita Pak at GNC has all you need. Evening Primrose is a God send.
Hydroxycut was better when it contained ephedra.
But seriesly, it was 2004 and it was hugh.
Yeah well now there is a class action law suit citing heart problems and death.
I am so glad that you have figured out your problems and been able to fix it.
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