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Re:FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food wi... by londons_explore on Saturday October 10, 2026 @02:26PM (#50035685)
If a chemical coating on a 2000 lbs grain bag was enough to harm children who ate grain stored in the bags, then think about the impact on the person in the coating factory who probably receives a dose 10^9 x bigger without PPE, and probably 10^6 bigger with PPE, because very little PPE keeps out more than 99.9% of whats outside.

Something about the story doesn't add up. Either people are dying every day in the coating factory (unlikely), or the coating, whilst measurable, isn't as dangerous as the article implies.

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Re:FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food wi... by midtake on Saturday October 10, 2026 @02:43PM (#50035837)
Inhalation is different from ingestion, for one. I can handle gallons of liquid hydrogen cyanide, but it takes much less than that to kill me if it contaminates my food. The articles say perchlorates are harmful at 0.5 ppb. That's pretty demanding, so to me the article makes sense.
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Re:FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food wi... by KaiserPro on Saturday October 10, 2026 @03:09PM (#50036082)
Or, perhaps the exposure is controlled because there is a legal obligation to not let your employees ingest perchlorate

https://www.fishersci.co.uk/store/msds?partNumber=10031501&p...

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Re:FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food wi... by anigbrowl on Saturday October 10, 2026 @03:41PM (#50036409)
Perhaps. Or perhaps the factory knows that there's no effective oversight and that reports of bad working conditions can be smoothed over with a political donation or a negligible fine, and starts deprioritizing safety, monitoring, and maintenance of existing safety systems.
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Re:FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food wi... by kozd on Saturday October 10, 2026 @02:34PM (#50035761)
> probably 10^6 bigger with PPE

How did you arrive at six orders of magnitude? Are the workers ingesting the bags?

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