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Mon 22 Sep 2008 10:11am
Sometimes I see "chocolate (processed with alkali)" as an ingredient on food labels.
What is that all about?
-- (Name Withheld)
Brooklyn, NY
Processing chocolate with alkali is known as the "Dutch method."
Take note, dear readers: any chocolate product labeled "Dutch chocolate" is not making reference to the cocoa beans' origin, but rather
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Posted
Wed 18 Mar 2009 3:06pm
By Scott Laster, SafeMinds Mercury at chlor-alkali manufacturing plants represents one of the main sources of anthropogenic mercury (i.e. mercury contamination originating from human activities). This source of mercury contamination will be gaining more attention in 2009 with the reintroduction...
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Posted
Mon 07 Jun 2010 12:00am
(JASN), entitled “Got Calcium? Welcome to the Calcium-Alkali Syndrome.” The incidence of the so-called milk-alkali or calcium-alkali syndrome is growing in large part because of widespread use of over-the-counter calcium and vitamin D supplements.
The milk-alkali syndrome arose in the early 1900s when patients ingested abundant amounts of milk and antacids
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Posted
Wed 16 Mar 2011 6:00am
fructose corn syrup, sweetened condensed whole milk, cocoa processed with alkali, modified corn starch, hydrogenated coconut oil, salt, potassium sorbate and propyl paraben – as preservatives, carrageenan, propylene glycol alginate, natural and artificial vanilla flavor, soy lecithin), sugar, brownies (sugar, wheat flour, cocoa processed with alkali, water, eggs
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Posted
Thu 27 Aug 2009 12:03am
the chlor-alkali industry. I interviewed a guy at EPA who told me Vulcan Chemical company was the only company on record to find their missing mercury. Vulcan Chemical got out the mercury cell chlor-alkali business shortly after my investigation but shared information with me on where their missing mercury went. Some of it went into virtually all
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Posted
Wed 18 Mar 2009 12:00am
By Scott Laster, SafeMinds
Mercury at chlor-alkali manufacturing plants represents one of the main sources of anthropogenic mercury (i.e. mercury contamination... mercury exposure.
Since the late-1800’s, chlor-alkali plants have used large vats containing several tons of elemental mercury as a catalyst to convert salt water into common
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Posted
Fri 11 Jun 2010 11:04am
of three ingredients: water, vegetable or animal fat, and an an alkali. Originally, the ashes from plants or other substances were used as the alkali.
One problem that has always... B.J. Johnson in 1898. Working for the Colgate company, he developed a soap entirely made of palm and olive oil. There was no alkali ingredient. It was called, "Palmolive
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