Posted on 12/09/2003 1:38:39 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Pickle Slices: Cucumbers, water, distilled vinegar,
salt, calcium chloride, sodium benzoate or potassium
sorbate (preservative), natural flavor (vegetable
source), alum, polysorbate 80, turmeric.
So far, not too bad. Now, let's see what's in that bun.
Regular Bun: Enriched bleached flour (bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, folic acid, reduced iron), water, high fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, yeast, contains less than 2 % of each of the following:
salt, calcium sulfate, calcium carbonate, calcium silicate, wheat gluten, soy flour, baking soda,
emulsifier (mono- and diglycerides, diacetyl tartaric acid esters of fatty acids, ethanol, sorbitol, polysorbate 20, potassium propionate),
sodium stearoyl lactylate,
dough conditioner (corn starch, ammonium chloride, ammonium sulfate, calcium peroxide, ascorbic acid, azodicarbonamide, enzymes),
calcium propionate (preservative)
Sharp Pasteurized Processed American Cheese: Cultured milk, water, cream, sodium citrate, salt,
sodium aluminum phosphate, sorbic acid (preservative), sodium phosphate,
cheese culture, artificial color, acetic acid, enzymes, lecithin.
Bringing your own bun might help. Seriously, though, doesn't this info make you want to cook a burger at home yourself, at least some of the time?
The EPA's Reference Dose for methylmercury is 0.1 micrograms/kilogram of body weight per day. "A reference dose is defined as an estimate of a daily exposure to the human population (including sensitive subpopulations) that is likely to be without a risk of adverse effects when experienced over a lifetime."
150 lbs is about 68 kg, and 200 lbs is about 91 kg
CH3Hg is about 216 g/mol, while Hg is about 201 g/mol ... minor difference
So, the EPA limit for a 150-200 lb adult is 6.3-8.5 micrograms of mercury per day, although the Committee on Toxicological Effects of Methylmercury supports "an uncertainty factor of at least 10," which would account for the comment about 1 mcg/day.
For comparison, a 6 ounce (170 gram) can of white albacore tuna, with up to 0.3-0.5 ppm Hg would contain 51-85 micrograms of Hg. Given the EPA recommendations, one should not eat albacore tuna every day or even every week.
Light tuna contains less mercury than albacore tuna.
They were taking little seven- and 10-pound babies and pumping 50 and 75 micrograms of mercury into them in one shot. That's like giving an adult 1,000 micrograms.
So, one vaccination shot contains about as much mercury as a can of albacore tuna. If the vaccination is so dangerous, isn't fish also dangerous (given that most people eat fish much more often than they get vaccinations) for small children?
Do the combination vaccines like MMR or DPT contain three times as much thimerosal as individual vaccine doses?
Joe Boernstein was going forward with a class action suit against the vaccine makers before our current president outlawed such torts.
I guess he figured he had a pretty good case.
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