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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.
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.