It is sort of like the neutrasweet test they did. Came out the dosage in the rats was the equivalent of a human drinking 200 bottles of diet soda a day. Almost anything is poisonous in large enough quantities, even water.
P. J. Alling wrote: > The way the FDA tests for carcinogenic compounds is completely biased. > Firstly I believe that lab rats are prone to cancer. Beyond that, > secondly if the amount of a compound is scaled up to human size you'd > have to ingest a boxcar load. I was able to find at least one citation, > that an enzyme in rats breaks the safrole down into the actual > carcinogen, humans don't have that enzyme. > > Cory Papenfuss wrote: >> On Sun, 6 May 2007, P. J. Alling wrote: >> >> >>> Natural root beer is banned by the FDA. It's primary flavoring is >>> Sassafras, (containing safrole),which is a carcinogen. I've made if >>> using the original root but you can't buy it you'll have to collect yourself >>> >>> >> I've wanted to try some *real* rootbeer like that just to see what >> it tastes like. I looked into it a bit and got about that far. It's >> carcinogenic if made from the real deal, right? >> >> -Cory >> >> -- >> >> ************************************************************************* >> * Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA * >> * Electrical Engineering * >> * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * >> ************************************************************************* >> >> >> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
