Taking a closer look at my 10kg bag of table salt (NaCl) I noticed it has a diffrent anti cake agent (535). After a bit of searching I found out its Sodium ferrocyanide, while its fairly inert apparently it can decompose to hydrogen cyanide. I prefer magnesium oxide personally, inert and insoluble
Am I being over cautious here?
Anti Cake Woes
Started by marble, Dec 06 2007 01:00 PM
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Posted 06 December 2007 - 02:38 PM
Yes.Am I being over cautious here?
Sodium Hexacyanoferrate II is yellow so you'd notice if they put loads in.
From some WHO human studies infants tolerate 0.0077g/Kg with no ill effects measured.
So very roughly speaking a 75Kg (11st -ish) adult will tolerate 0.6g.
A typical maximum quantity (1999 UK statutory level) in salt is 20mg/Kg (really effective anti-caking agent!)
To reach the max for infants a 75Kg adult would need to eat 30Kg!
Feel free to knock my arithmetic, even if I am out by a factor of 100, it's still safe.
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Posted 06 December 2007 - 02:50 PM
I forgot to mention, It will be going in my chlorate cell 
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Posted 06 December 2007 - 03:00 PM
B*GGER, after all that mathI forgot to mention, It will be going in my chlorate cell
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