I hope this one is a hoax...

[rml]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...d=585&u=/nm/20030331/sc_nm/health_chemical_dc



I cannot find the above warning in the hoax site, I hope this is a hoax like the following

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBInconsequential.shtml#plasticwraptoxins

 

[TwinkleToes77]

for the lazy

2nd link

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

This is no hoax. I recommend everyone try and catch a show on PBS called Trade Secrets, or at least read the transcripts here. You might also want to change your title to something more decsriptive, this is a very serious problem that rarely gets much exposure.

 

[conjur]

hm...phenol. Isn't that a component of the toxin in items such as Diet Coke.

I remember on a co-op at a GE Plastics plant in Indiana, we were told during a safety orientation that if we smelled something like fresh-cut grass, it was Phenol and to get the heck out of Dodge as it was quite lethal.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: conjur
hm...phenol. Isn't that a component of the toxin in items such as Diet Coke.

I remember on a co-op at a GE Plastics plant in Indiana, we were told during a safety orientation that if we smelled something like fresh-cut grass, it was Phenol and to get the heck out of Dodge as it was quite lethal.

I dunno about diet coke, but it's the active ingredient in Chloraseptic. It's nasty stuff. My dad works in a plant that manufactures phenol.

 

[human2k]

No wonder i have 11 fingers.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: Jzero

I dunno about diet coke, but it's the active ingredient in Chloraseptic. It's nasty stuff. My dad works in a plant that manufactures phenol.

I think it's the aspartame. Phenol is a component of that.

 

[LadyJessica]

Aspartame is composed of aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol. People with PKU shouldn't injest this substance. The fear of methonal is unfounded since we get more methanol from other foods.