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Those results just say what I did, that DCM is used as the working solvent in some cases and trace amounts can remain. The FDA limit is 10ppm in coffee, and for

Those results just say what I did, that DCM is used as the working solvent in some cases and trace amounts can remain. The FDA limit is 10ppm in coffee, and for contrast occupational exposure limits are 100-200 ppm in an 8 hour working period. NO HARM has been seen to come to people exposed to those levels, routinely, in their work. You might as well worry about the radioactivity of a banana.

pengaru 3y ago
> You might as well worry about the radioactivity of a banana. This is such an asinine false equivalence I can hardly bring myself to even continue this thread. Bananas are not radioactive as the result of a potentially flawed/misperformed industrial process. Decaf coffee is always the result of an industrial process, in some cases involving dangerous solvents by design. What do you suppose the rate is of those solvents being impure or just plain mixed up, or improperly utilized? I bet you it's orders of magnitude higher than bananas spuriously evolving dangerously high levels of radioactivity or growing successfully to fruition in otherwise dangerously toxic environments. Industrially processed foods/ingredients have inherently higher risks, it's a significant part of why consuming processed foods is not recommended AIUI.