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That title looked like click-bait to me, with "chemical from rocket fuel" being deliberately scary. Rocket fuel can have very ordinary (and even non-toxic) ingr
by dtgriscom 3y ago
That title looked like click-bait to me, with "chemical from rocket fuel" being deliberately scary. Rocket fuel can have very ordinary (and even non-toxic) ingredients.
But then I read it was hydrazine. Whoa: that's bad, and justifies the title. (Moral: always read the article.)
- mortenjorck 3y agoThe first place my mind went was “yoga mat chemical,” where a GRAS food-grade additive used in Subway bread was also commonly used as as an industrial plasticizer, and this connection, when seized upon by some media-savvy activists, was enough to get Subway to discontinue its use. But yeah, hydrazine is not that.
- perihelions 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azodicarbonamide?useskin=vector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azodicarbonamide?useskin=vecto...
- KennyBlanken 3y agoFrom reading that, my impression is that there's fair evidence it id toxic to people from the occupational health hazards that have been identified, and if it's toxic to workers, it shouldn't be in food. Sounds like in the US the manufactured food industry got away with using it by not doing much or any testing/research on it. With no pressure from regulators and no additional research, public opinion was all that was left. Frankly, "I don't want an industrial plasticizer in my bread" is pretty reasonable.
- mindslight 3y agoIt's almost like we'd be better off if the headline simply said "hydrazine".
- the__alchemist 3y agoSame reaction. I froze for a minute and said out loud "wow, hydrazine" after realizing preconceptions led me astray.