Arsenic In Fruit Juice

[DeSwiss]

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[Armin-A]

1. there aren't any standards on juice?

[seamac]

2. HFCS

Seems like the government watch dogs like the FDA or EPA have suffered a bit of budget hackery during the BushCo. years. Somehow the big supporters have lobbied their way into preventing oversight of basic consumer protections. Check Monsanto, free trade deals, Clean Water or Fresh Air initiatives. They have all been written to poison the consumers without consequence, and enrich the corporate boards. It jives with the health care industry taking our assets to pay for a glimmer of hope to live beyond the cancerous chemicals unregulated for our benefit? Be very careful...

[Armin-A]

3. and for what? an easy buck?

do these big companies even notice a difference between 1.243 billion and 1.234 billion?

[AtheistCrusader]

6. It is naturally occurring in our water, food, and air.

Go to the simplest amish farm, grab an apple, and test it for arsenic. You will find it.

It's ok, your body can deal with it. We are well engineered to our environment by millions of years of natural selection. We can metabolize the arsenic in your food. Not so much for the arsenic belched out by a coal power plant.

http://www.ead.anl.gov/pub/doc/arsenic.pdf

[Armin-A]

7. just because

just because something is "naturally occuring" shouldn't mean that we should monitor its levels and set limits if they get too high or low in some cases. our bodies are a very finely tuned ballet of chemistry that can survive most things, but problems don't always show up right after consumption.

[AtheistCrusader]

8. The type of arsenic is at least as important as the dose.

Though, I agree with you, monitoring it for potentially dangerous abberations is quite prudent.

[GreenTea]

4. Drink organic juices or squeeze your own organic fruit.

[AtheistCrusader]

5. There's arsenic in Organic too.

Jesus christ, there's arsenic IN APPLES. Naturally occurring. Particularly concentrated in the seeds. Arsenic in celery and asparagus too.

Peaches have cyanide.


Fret not, it won't hurt you. The dose is too low, and the body deals differently with organic and inorganic minerals. The body can break down and metabolize ionic bonds in organic minerals, rendering them safe. It CAN'T break down covalent bonds in inorganic minerals, and thus, they become toxins.

What you find in that apple/peach/etc is ionic bonded organic minerals. Plus, in the case of these two, the arsenic is mostly sequestered in the pit and seeds.

Relax. Sounds bad. It isn't.

http://www.ead.anl.gov/pub/doc/arsenic.pdf


If you're worried about inorganic arsenic, worry about fish because they can concentrate the stuff for us, and goddamn Coal Plants.