How a key ingredient in Coca-Cola, M&M's is smuggled from war-torn Sudan

Re:How a key ingredient in Coca-Cola, M&M's is smuggled from... by weaksauce on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @02:42PM (#43271300)

> This is just pure government regulation causing rationing and harming people.

having worked in the space... you are at the level of knowledge of "you don't know what you don't know." it's regulated for good reason. WFI is ultra pure water and costs quite a bit of money to make and is one of the main ingredients in a lot of pharmaceuticals.

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Re:How a key ingredient in Coca-Cola, M&M's is smuggled from... by rowanG077 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @03:19PM (#43271758)

I wonder if the water used in chip production is just good enough. Still not cheap but at least it's easily available in crisis.

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Re:How a key ingredient in Coca-Cola, M&M's is smuggled from... by ceejayoz on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @04:47PM (#43273019)

Maybe. Now you just need several very specialized machines (https://www.iven-pharma.com/news/what-is-the-manufacturing-p...) to package it (with the right equally pure & sterile salt additives, preservatives, etc.; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringer%27s_lactate_solution, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_bag) in a guaranteed sterile fashion, in a usable form, in enough quantity (1.5M/day; https://www.aha.org/2024-10-07-aha-president-urging-administ...) to supply half the United States.

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