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What's the actual risk though? The CDC says "Don’t taste or eat raw (unbaked) dough or batter", but many do anyway because the risk is low enough to not be ove
by memish 5y ago
What's the actual risk though?
The CDC says "Don’t taste or eat raw (unbaked) dough or batter", but many do anyway because the risk is low enough to not be overly concerned about.
- pdpi 5y agoRaw dough/batter is a one-off risk. If that one batch wasn't contaminated, you're safe. Insofar as nitrates are a risk, they're more of a cumulative chronic exposure sort of risk.
- memish 5y agoBut still, what's the actual risk? Is the cumulative risk on the order of 0.01% to 0.1%? Or is it like 1% to 10%? If it's the former, then it's not worth thinking about. If it's the latter, I may change my behavior. Or it could be expressed via expected life years lost. If 1 year, eh. If it's 10 years, that's another story. Also how much would need to be consumed. Are we talking about bacon every day? Or once a week? Or month?
- pdpi 5y agoI have no idea whether it even is a risk. My point was that it’s very hard to compare the two examples because they’re very different risk profiles, irrespective of the magnitude of their effects
- jnwatson 5y agoConsumption of processed meat is significant enough of a health impact that it is a common question in lifetime expectancy calculators.
- aantix 5y agoDo generic, broad warnings like "do not operate heavy machinery" hurt larger public health efforts like mask wearing?
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- sokoloff 5y agoMask wearing happens where there are mandates. “If you don’t have a mask, you can’t come in and buy groceries.” I don’t think anything was going to make optional masking commonplace over a long period of time, so I wouldn’t blame excessive warning labels on it.
- bumby 5y agoThe article speaks specifically about colorectal cancer: >found that every 50 grams of processed meat per day upped the risk by 18 percent 18% sounds like a big increase, and it is a big increase from a relative standpoint. But the absolute risk goes from 5% lifetime risk to 6% lifetime risk in the linked study.