Comments on: CDC Study Finds Rocket Fuel Chemical in Baby Formula https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/07/cdc-study-finds-rocket-fuel-ch/ Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:44:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Ashley https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/07/cdc-study-finds-rocket-fuel-ch/#comment-533771 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:44:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/07/cdc-study-finds-rocket-fuel-ch/#comment-533771 If you have a child and you know that a formula contains Perchlorate in addition Melamine which are both harmful chemicals. Would you knowing give them the formula ten plus times a day everyday for a year. I would hope that you would not want your child to be a test subject. What is amazing is that people are more concerned about the company than the child who can develop kidney, liver, brain and reproductive damages. The company is only interested in money not making a quality product and the goverment agencies are not punichng them. Instead they (the companies) are being protected and not the children. This is outrageous and it speaks volumes about our “civilization”.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/07/cdc-study-finds-rocket-fuel-ch/#comment-533770 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:54:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/07/cdc-study-finds-rocket-fuel-ch/#comment-533770 catgirl: Maybe, but imageine you have a baby who drinks formula, and this will be the baby’s only/main nutrition for the next several months. Now, you find out that Formula brand A, which you have been using has the jet fuel stuff and Formula brand B does not.

Are you going to not switch brands because the science is not in? No, you’d switch. The next logical step from that is insisting that the presence of jet fuel in baby formula be disclosed to the consumer. The next logical step after that is required testing for chemicals that should not be there. Now, imagine the scenaro of having a baby formula factory and you’ve got two batches of baby formula, A and B. A tests positive for jet fuel, but you don’t know what jet fuel, and B does not seem to have any jet fuel. What are you going to do?

All tiny logical and reasonable steps.

BTW, even though water is a big-ass solvent, it is the solvent we evolved in. So we get along with it pretty well. There is a fine line between the naturalistic fallacy and reasoned guess, so yes, we need to be careful.

]]> By: catgirl https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/07/cdc-study-finds-rocket-fuel-ch/#comment-533769 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:34:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/07/cdc-study-finds-rocket-fuel-ch/#comment-533769 Well, a hazardous industrial solvent and cleaner is also used to make baby formula. It’s water. Let’s make sure that the levels detected are actually a threat before we start freaking out.

]]> By: llewelly https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/07/cdc-study-finds-rocket-fuel-ch/#comment-533768 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:12:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/07/cdc-study-finds-rocket-fuel-ch/#comment-533768

The Perchlorate Information Bureau, an industry trade group supported by Lockheed Martin, Aerojet and other defense contractors, said the cost of an overly restrictive perchlorate standard would be “potentially staggering.”

Surely freedom and capitalism will suffer terribly if defense contractors are not allowed to continue offloading health costs onto ordinary citizens. How we will ever defend ourselves from communism without their efforts?

]]> By: derender https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/07/cdc-study-finds-rocket-fuel-ch/#comment-533767 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:12:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/07/cdc-study-finds-rocket-fuel-ch/#comment-533767 Well that explains liberalism. Too much rocket fuel in the baby formula and too many lead paint chip dinners as a kid.
Now at least I know what was behind Iowa and Vermont. This will probably lead to even more of that gloabl warming people keep screaming about.

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