Close their business, put them in jail.
How to stop adulterated turmeric from killing people
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Re: How to stop adulterated turmeric from killing people
#32> Yet adulterated turmeric looks like a major culprit almost everywhere, chiefly owing to poor practice in India, which produces 75% of the spice. It’s really shocking to me that in the year 2023 people could be intentionally adding lead to food products at this scale. Is this mainly due to greed and corruption? Ignorance? Distrust of modern medicine and health advice? I suppose it’s similar to the problem of people…
It (lead acetate) was added to hair coloring products as late as 2022, while not meant for ingestion the risk is there (I don't know if it can get absorbed). It's still in many eyeliners and used to be present in lipstick in notable quantities. Not things you'd want it in.
Re: How to stop adulterated turmeric from killing people
#33> Yet adulterated turmeric looks like a major culprit almost everywhere, chiefly owing to poor practice in India, which produces 75% of the spice. It’s really shocking to me that in the year 2023 people could be intentionally adding lead to food products at this scale. Is this mainly due to greed and corruption? Ignorance? Distrust of modern medicine and health advice? I suppose it’s similar to the problem of people…
> I suppose it’s similar to the problem of people dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere,
no it isn't
Re: How to stop adulterated turmeric from killing people
#34> Yet adulterated turmeric looks like a major culprit almost everywhere, chiefly owing to poor practice in India, which produces 75% of the spice. It’s really shocking to me that in the year 2023 people could be intentionally adding lead to food products at this scale. Is this mainly due to greed and corruption? Ignorance? Distrust of modern medicine and health advice? I suppose it’s similar to the problem of people…
It's the result of a heterogeneous, low trust society - you don't care if you are killing someone who's not like you.
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#35It's not turmeric that kills, it's the unregulated market.
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#36Sad that corporates have processed this product so much, it comes from ancient Ayurvedic scriptures as medicinal.
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#37>Recent estimates suggest a staggering 815m children—one in three of the global total—have been poisoned by the metal. This is insane, hard to believe tumeric is the main culprit. But then again lots of these children probsbly live in India, where the leadtumeric seems to be most popular.
Leaded gasoline has remained legal until fairly recently in a surprising number of countries in and around the middle east. It is still used in aviation fuel.
The soil contamination from this is probably part of the issue with similar high levels of lead in chocolate products.
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#38How likely is the turmeric I buy in the EU to contain excess amounts of lead?
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
This sounds like a one-off incident that was caught by testing. Given increased awareness of the issue, it seems unlikely that any turmeric you buy in the US today would be contaminated.
Rather a large number of things are contaminated with heavy metals, because the food industry tends not to test for them and there's little regulation: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/your-herb... ( "Your Herbs and Spices Might Contain Arsenic, Cadmium, and Lead: CR tested 126 products from McCormick, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, and other popular brands. Almost a third had heavy metal levels high en…
I would like to know if the EU (or, in particular, Finland) is any better in this regard.
Re: How to stop adulterated turmeric from killing people
#40> Yet adulterated turmeric looks like a major culprit almost everywhere, chiefly owing to poor practice in India, which produces 75% of the spice. It’s really shocking to me that in the year 2023 people could be intentionally adding lead to food products at this scale. Is this mainly due to greed and corruption? Ignorance? Distrust of modern medicine and health advice? I suppose it’s similar to the problem of people…
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