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Why Rocket Fuel Has Been Contaminating Our Food and Water for Years

11 pointsby RadixDLT9 months ago

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mystified50169 months ago
Sure, food is contaminated with rocket fuel in the same way that it&#x27;s contaminated with embalming fluid.<p>Formaldehyde is SCARY! It&#x27;s EMBALMING fluid used on DEAD PEOPLE!! Definitely shouldn&#x27;t be in our drinking water!!!<p>Clickbait garbage.<p>Also, &quot;perchlorate&quot; is not a chemical. It&#x27;s an entire class of chemicals, many of which occur naturally. Is there some perchlorate pollution in the food and water supply? Probably. Does it have anything <i>at all</i> to do with rocket fuel? Sure, probably around 0.0001%.<p>E: after thinking for a couple of minutes, they probably are talking about potassium perchlorate (I only skimmed the article until the &#x27;zomg rocket fuel&#x27; panic). This is an extremely common chemical both in the lab and in all sorts of consumer products, but mainly pyrotechnics. It also doesn&#x27;t appear to be particularly toxic; it seems to affect iodine uptake by the thyroid, but long term studies seem to be inconclusive.