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Is this true or some myth?

Walter Eric Johnson wej3715 at fox.tamu.edu
Wed Jan 20 15:30:16 EST 1999


Mark Gold (mgold at tiac.net) wrote:
: As I pointed out formaldehyde has been shown to be a chronic poison at
: extremely low levels.  This has nothing to do with water which is not 
: poisonous.  If you are going to use an analogy, try using
: elemental mercury.

The LD50 for water is something like 650 g/kg bodyweight.

If you want the exact number, it should be quite easy to find
out.  I just don't have it handy at the moment and don't feel
that the exact number is worth looking for.

As far as aspartame, if it weren't for the fact that I know
people who appear to be highly reactive to it, I'd think you
were nuts.  Instead, I'd really like to see a detailed study
of those people and whether the reaction is real.  If the reaction
is real, is the reaction to aspartame or something else?

Eric Jhonson 



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