Showing posts with label tasty chemicals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tasty chemicals. Show all posts

Sunday, February 22, 2009

the Fed allows lots of additives to make food "tasty" & fresh

Electronic Code of Federal Regulations:
Methyl alcohol, not more than 150 parts per million.

Lead (as Pb), not more than 10 parts per million.

Arsenic (as As), not more than 1 part per million.

Carminic acid, not less than 1.8 percent.

(2) Carmine shall conform to the following specifications:

Volatile matter (at 135 °C. for 3 hours), not more than 20.0 percent.

chiefly carminic acid, obtained by an aqueous extraction of cochineal ( Dactylopius coccus costa ( Coccus cacti L.)). Its from a South American crushed beatle

Ash, not more than 12.0 percent.

Lead (as Pb), not more than 10 parts per million.

Arsenic (as As), not more than 1 part per million.

Carminic acid, not less than 50.0 percent.

So the cold war saying:  "better red than dead" should be:  eat red; end up dead...add your own metaphor or






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