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The next time you are you're looking to fireproof something forget trekking down to the hardware store, instead check the fridge and grab a stick of butter. Researchers have found varied amounts of flame retardant in sticks of butter. Polybrominated dphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, are a class of chemicals commonly used in furniture and electronic manufacturing as flame-retardants. When digested these chemicals have been known to stop hormone function and increase cancer.
Though Shecter will not release the name of the company whose butter contained such high levels of the chemicals, he believes that the issue could be due to an electrical incident. If there was a fire in one of the machines or overheating, the chemicals could have leaked into the paper and then later into the butter.
doesnt bother me any, especially since i avoid butter, and butter substitutes anyway. besides we all have to die of something some day, why not have a little fun while we live on the planet. i am of the same mind as bill engval. i want people to look at my corpse and say, pfft, he partied!!
That's pretty gross.... well we allow fluoride and have no problem with it, or Nutrasweet. and people don't mind poisoning themselves with those so why would they care about this?
The next time you are you're looking to fireproof something forget trekking down to the hardware store, instead check the fridge and grab a stick of butter. Researchers have found varied amounts of flame retardant in sticks of butter. Polybrominated dphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, are a class of chemicals commonly used in furniture and electronic manufacturing as flame-retardants. When digested these chemicals have been known to stop hormone function and increase cancer.
Though Shecter will not release the name of the company whose butter contained such high levels of the chemicals, he believes that the issue could be due to an electrical incident. If there was a fire in one of the machines or overheating, the chemicals could have leaked into the paper and then later into the butter.
NEWSFLASH! This just in: the sky is falling! Some food products have been discovered to not be perfectly healthful for you! Woe and fear! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
When people try to set up checks to validate what is in food you see people screaming about socialism and "big government". Then the inspectors don't have enough funding to check everything and crap like this gets through. What is funny is that the people who scream the loudest against funding inspections are often the first ones to rant back to the inspectors that they aren't protecting them well enough.
People charge them with a mission, and give them no money to do it, then people have no one to blame but themselves.
Not in real butter. Only in lower fat "healthy" alternatives to butter.
I try to avoid the fake stuff if I can.
Life it too short to eat fake butter substitutes. Plenty of other alternatives including nut butters, etc... than to eat that processed garbage anyway.
Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) is a flame retardant and a large box should be readily availible in every kitchen.
http://humantouchofchemistry.com/node/11 (broken link)
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