Guest BROWNer Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 YUMYUM> TOXIC ROCKET FUEL FOUND IN MILK SAMPLES FROM TEXAS SUPERMARKETS LUBBOCK, TX, Sept. 19 - A toxic component of rocket fuel has been found in supermarket milk at levels exceeding the federal government's currently recommended safe dose for drinking water, according to a peer-reviewed scientific study published today. A team of five researchers from the Institute of Environmental and Human Health at Texas Tech University report in the journal Environmental Science and Technology that perchlorate was "unambiguously detected" in seven of seven cow's milk samples from Lubbock grocery stores. LINK: http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/doilooku....1021/es034735q Perchlorate levels in the milk ranged from 1.7 to 6.4 parts per billion - all higher than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's most recent proposed safety standard of 1 ppb. Enforceable federal standards are not expected for at least five years, but the State of California has set 4 ppb of perchlorate as the "action level" at which a public water supply should be shut down. Perchlorate, the explosive main ingredient of solid rocket and missile fuel, can disrupt the thyroid gland's ability to make essential hormones. For fetuses, infants and children, disruptions in thyroid hormone levels can cause lowered IQ, mental retardation, loss of hearing and speech, and motor skill deficits. Perchlorate, most of it leaking from military bases or defense plants, contaminates more than 500 drinking water supplies in at least 20 states, serving well over 20 million people. Among major perchlorate-polluted sources is the Colorado River, which is used to irrigate 1.4 million acres of cropland in California and Arizona. Earlier this year, a study for the Environmental Working Group, conducted by the same team from Texas Tech, reported that about 1 in 5 samples tested of winter lettuce irrigated by the Colorado had perchlorate levels averaging four times the EPA's draft safety standard. (www.ewg.org/suspectsalads.pdf.) "These troubling results are the first indication that perchlorate is not only contaminating drinking water and irrigation water, but that livestock can pass it on to humans," said EWG Senior Analyst Renee Sharp. "How much more evidence do we need before the government takes action to protect our water, our food and our selves from this toxic chemical?" The milk samples represented six different brands, four packaged locally at the same plant and two at separate plants outside Texas. Researchers also found perchlorate in one sample of evaporated cow's milk (1 ppb) and one sample of human breast milk (about 4 ppb), but none was found in a sample of reconstituted powdered milk. Levels of perchlorate in Lubbock-area drinking water range from below the limit of detection to 4 ppb, with the average about 2.5 ppb. Previous research by the Texas Tech scientists has shown that feed crops such as alfalfa can take up and concentrate perchlorate to high levels. The researchers have also documented perchlorate contamination of field-grown wheat, blackberries, chinaberries, mulberries and in lab-grown lettuce, soybeans, strawberries and cucumbers. "The significant occurrence of perchlorate in all milk samples analyzed at levels that are comparable or even greater than the current California action level for the concentration of perchlorate in drinking water came as a considerable surprise to us," wrote the authors. "Based on this limited study, it is not clear how widespread perchlorate contamination of milk may be, but clearly such a study is warranted." EWG renews its call for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Department of Agriculture to fast-track a definitive study of perchlorate contamination in the U.S. food supply, and make all results public. All future drinking water standards, such as those currently under consideration by California, must adequately reflect the potential for exposure through food. Farmers and ranchers must be fully compensated for lost profits and property values. http://www.ewg.org/issues/perchlorate/20030919/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
type R Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 Originally posted by BROWNer The milk samples represented six different brands, four packaged locally at the same plant and two at separate plants outside Texas. Researchers also found perchlorate in one sample of evaporated cow's milk (1 ppb) and one sample of human breast milk (about 4 ppb), but none was found in a sample of reconstituted powdered milk. its spreading...but there is no way that i am drinking powdered milk. ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king kong Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 wierd story Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mental invalid Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 is anyone shocked that it happend in TX? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BROWNer Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 you mean with all the industrialized deregulations? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.yuck Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 A toxic component of rocket fuel has been found in supermarket milk at levels exceeding the federal government's currently recommended safe dose <span style='color:black'>Wait wait wait. So you are telling me that there are federally acceptable doses of toxic materials that you can ingest? That's not good. Like they are at the milk factory like "Ahhhh...They'll be okay."</span> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mental invalid Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 "you mean with all the industrialized deregulations?" ding ding ding! browns takes the prize! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLIK$ Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 Well that could explain Tease and his e-buddies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DISCO BRYSO Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 you guys are all just a bunch of comedians. if jerry seinfeld was on this board no one would no it. shit.. I'm gonna go eat some CTC right now and put a shit load of anti-freeze in it because I can. fuck milk and fuck rocket fuel. I have NOS in my car.. wanna come chase me? :lick: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GnomeToys Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 Originally posted by mr.yuck <span style='color:black'>Wait wait wait. So you are telling me that there are federally acceptable doses of toxic materials that you can ingest? That's not good. Like they are at the milk factory like "Ahhhh...They'll be okay."</span> I wouldn't be too concerned. 1ppb perchlorates is well beyond harmless. Looking up the LD50, Ammonium Perchlorate (the most commonly used perchlorate in solid rocket fuels) is listed at 4200mg/Kg. Assuming the average person weighs something like 70kg, that would be around 294g of perchlorates a person would need to ingest to end up with a 50/50 chance of survival. The amount we're talking about here is somewhere in the sub milligram range per entire gallon of milk. The media likes to go crazy with things like this to give everybody a nice scare (TOXIC ROCKET FUEL FOUND IN YOUR CHILDREN'S MILK OMG), but in all honestly perchlorates are emptied from your body fairly quickly and don't have any chronic health effects that I can find other than by inhalation, so I'm going to say that this is just another scare article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poop Man Bob Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 Drink soy milk. And lay off Texas. We're not all bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.yuck Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 Originally posted by GnomeToys I wouldn't be too concerned. This is just another scare article. :scowl: <span style='color:black'>Haha!! I don't feel so goooood. Yeah i know how the media does it. "Could your children be an easy target for a psychotic alien robot? Tune in tomorrow to find out." </span> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
**REDRUMS** Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 ROCKET FUEL-BACARDI 151 AND A BOTTLE OF YOUR CHOICE OF HARD BOOZE AND 30 FRUIT COOLERS AND A BUNCH OF FRUIT ROCKET FUEL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feäà m3 Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 Mmmmmm, Mmmmm Rocket Fuel... It does a body good! http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling417/milk.jpg'> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BROWNer Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 holy christ, ^that^ man is primo astronerd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
space base Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 Milk is gross. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BROWNer Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 i love it, but when i think about a big long hairy ass cow tit squeezin' off milk.....eeehhhh. somebody once told me chocomilk is the bloody run off milk, colored to mask the nastiness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DISCO BRYSO Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 I still drink milk. it is a fast, quick calcium fix. I eat vitamins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BROWNer Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 http://www.photo.net/photo/pcd4554/cow-udder-38.3.jpg'> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 Originally posted by BROWNer i love it, but when i think about a big long hairy ass cow tit squeezin' off milk.....eeehhhh. somebody once told me chocomilk is the bloody run off milk, colored to mask the nastiness. this comment, along with this thread, may have ended my milk drinking days forever. i like soy milk a lot now. and those snapple a day shits are good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
space base Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 You might as well still be drinking breast milk. At least thats made for humans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BROWNer Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 yep...i'll get reaquianted with the ol' boobicle sauce in the next couple years i bet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DISCO BRYSO Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 I like boobicles. they like me. no matter the size no matter the color. no matter the shape no matter the weather. I love the boobicles... remember that friends episode where ross drank the breast milk at the end? and he used an oreo chaser? hahaha... what a funny thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TEARZ Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 Originally posted by BROWNer yep...i'll get reaquianted with the ol' boobicle sauce in the next couple years i bet. this shit elicited a fucking snort. hahaha, hairy cow tits.... eghhhhhhh, that pic is sheer terror. fuck milk. rice dream sucka, edensoy biatch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_Tesseract Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 perky vainy funbags *edit: if you're sixteen and have a poppunk band...i just hooked you with a name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Quickwood Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 i don't drink the stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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