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There are some relevant differences regarding byproducts, contaminants, etc. No production process is entirely clean.
by AbrahamParangi 4y ago
There are some relevant differences regarding byproducts, contaminants, etc. No production process is entirely clean.
- Retric 4y agoThe same is true of refining products from organic sources. You don’t directly get 1lb of table sugar from planting a sugar beet, you need to separate the sugar. At scale this involves adding bleaching agents etc which end up in the final product along with whatever contaminates show up. Run a chemical analysis on several brands of natural sugars and your going to find stuff like sulphur dioxide used as a preservative and trace amounts of industrial lubricants etc.
- AbrahamParangi 4y agoYes it is true that any process will have degrees of contamination. I was just contesting that the distribution is “the same”, entirely process/substance dependent!
- Retric 4y agoI agree it’s process dependent but it’s also processor dependent. In the end we can’t say highly refined organic chemicals are strictly better here.
- selectodude 4y ago>No production process is entirely clean. Neither is extraction.
- hilbert42 4y agoBy how much? That's what really matters.
- Retric 4y agoDepends on the supplier not if it’s nominally a natural or artificial chemical.
- hilbert42 4y agoYeah, I wasn't clear, see reply to selectodude.
- selectodude 4y agoI can assure you I would give you an equally unclean garbage product whether I extracted or synthesized.
- hilbert42 4y agoRight. I wasn't really clear, I was referring to the degree of purity not the process or source.