[TheForge] Toxicity of Japan Drier (and RANT)

[Saint Phlip]

On 10/14/06, Bruce Freeman <freemab222 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Looks like we don't have much to worry about from
> Japan drier.  But still, don't make a practice of
> using toxic materials on food-related items.
>
> Bruce
> NJ

In this particular situation, since there's a perfectly viable
alternative to toxic materials, there's absolutely no reason to use
them. Using the "seasoning" process, in other words, cooking oils such
as have been mentioned on the piece, baked on in the oven (and, while
people have their preferences, ANY cooking oil will work in the
process) ic cheap, easy to do, and easy to maintain. Granted, you
wouldn't want to use lard for a Jewish or Moslen customer, and I'd
avoid peanut oil because of the large number of people allergic to it,
but a quick question to your customer, depending on which oil you're
using can avoid any unfortunate incidents if you DO prefer to use lard
or peanut oil. It's certainly easy enough to switch to some other
cooking oil for special circumstances.

While I tend to agree with Bruce, that in the usages specified,
there's unlikely to be any problem, why even bother to mess with
something that COULD be toxic in large doses? After all, if you use a
lot of the stuff, you may be building up enough in your own system to
cause a problem. Just avoid the whole situation ;-)

That's rather like what I do when setting up my first aid kit for SCA
events. While most people aren't allergic to latex, enough people are,
that it makes sense to me, rather than having two types of gloves,
both latex and vinyl, and asking if the pt is allergic to latex,
avoiding the whole problem and ALWAYS using nitile or vinyl gloves.

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