I'm perusing national news and see this headline:
Rocket fuel chemical found in baby formula
CDC: Could exceed safe levels if mixed with water containing ingredient
Lovely.
So I read on:
"Traces of a chemical used in rocket fuel were found in samples of powdered baby formula, and could exceed what's considered a safe dose for adults if mixed with water also contaminated with the ingredient, a government study has found."
I stop reading because I immediately ask myself:
"Is there ANY amount of rocket fuel that is safe for adults?"
Is it me? Am I the only one that also thinks:
1) Where is the FDA? Why aren't they doing anything to protect us?
2) Why is the CDC investigating this?
3) Again, where the heck is the FDA?
I read on and find a few more nuggets.
1) "No tests have ever shown the chemical caused health problems..."
Gee, maybe because no one has ever studied humans ingesting rocket fuel because, gee, it's not a food or beverage.
2) "The government requires that formula contain iodine, which counteracts perchlorate's effects."
Did the manufacturers and the government know about this and rather than fix the problem, they found a workaround?
3) "The researchers would not disclose the brands of formula they studied."
Excellent. Another government body NOT helping the American people. What purpose does the CDC serve if they aren't going to help the very people who they were hired to protect?
This story comes just about a year after the story where melamine was found in infant formular. Melamine is plastic. Valuable and highly collectible melamine jewelry is all the rage. Melamine is also used to fake Vitamin B. Nice. Good job FDA! And people wonder why autism rates skyrocket (not tying the 2 together - just making a point that we are poisoning our children and then wonder why they are sick).
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My eyes are seriously doing that cartoony bulging-out-of-face thing. Yet, there might be a couple of clues to help us hunt down the miscreant manufacturers. For example, are any formulas made in plants near ohhhh...NASA or Cape Canaveral?
Maybe the FDA can't investigate because they're responsible and, in the weird intestinal superstructure of government, the CDC functions as the FDA's Internal Affairs? Naw. That'd make too much warped sense.
Another example of our fat, lazy, incompetent government. And people think it's a great idea to hand our health care over to the government? I'm pretty sure they're all snorting rocket fuel....
I hope the new Wolverine movie has an excellent scene where Wolvie puts a hot dog on each claw and roasts them over the burning body of one of his enemies! Then washes it all down with a Big Gulp full of rocket fuel!
As a vegetarian, let me tell you that if Wolverine was toasting hot dogs...I'd totally eat 'em.
Thank goodness they changed that awful hair do he had in the last movie.
AND... how cool is that scene where he jumps/flies up to the helicopter?
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