Table salt vs kosher salt

[dadto2]

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[Owen Lucas]

In case anyone is still interested, the documentary I noted is called Chernobyl-30 Years On. It's free on IMdB. The sarcophagus is designed to last 100 years. The thinking is that by that time we will have figured out a way to dispose of the remaining melted fuel in a safe manner. Some of that was dropped into a salt mine in Germany. That material is now being threatened with corrosion and collapse of the mine itself. It is leaching into the water table as well. When the containment blew, TONS of radioactive material was released into the atmosphere and has traveled worldwide by now. Include Fukashima and other accidents Three mile island (?) and I'll continue to use iodized salt.
What the poor people of Ukraine went through was horrible.
I also realize that iodine may not do much good in that small a dose, but I just figure a little can help too.

So they took radioactive waste to Germany and threw it down a mine? That's absolutely insane, how did they not have the basic foresight to figure this out. I'll have to watch that movie, thanks for the recommendation.

There is zero chance that potassium iodide goes bad after two years. I guess it's one of those bizarre things where all "medications" are required to have expiration dates.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/drug-expiration-dates-do-they-mean-anything​

Most of what is known about drug expiration dates comes from a study conducted by the Food and Drug Administration at the request of the military. With a large and expensive stockpile of drugs, the military faced tossing out and replacing its drugs every few years. What they found from the study is 90% of more than 100 drugs, both prescription and over-the-counter, were perfectly good to use even 15 years after the expiration date.​

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So, the expiration date doesn't really indicate a point at which the medication is no longer effective or has become unsafe to use. Medical authorities state if expired medicine is safe to take, even those that expired years ago. A rare exception to this may be tetracycline, but the report on this is controversial among researchers. It's true the effectiveness of a drug may decrease over time, but much of the original potency still remains even a decade after the expiration date. Excluding nitroglycerin, insulin, and liquid antibiotics, most medications are as long-lasting as the ones tested by the military. Placing a medication in a cool place, such as a refrigerator, will help a drug remain potent for many years.​

I think the expiration date might have to due with the packaging of the medicine only being safe for a certain time frame. Kind of like how bottled water has an expiration date, it's most likely due to the plastic bottle no longer being able to maintain a tight seal as per some test or legal basis?

 

[Dave9]

The grains you mentioned are enriched to replace the nutrients that are lost during the refining process, not to boost up the nutritional value of cheap foods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_flour

It's the same thing. Refining is done to provide cheap food for the masses.

 

[JohnnyG]

So they took radioactive waste to Germany and threw it down a mine? That's absolutely insane, how did they not have the basic foresight to figure this out. I'll have to watch that movie, thanks for the recommendation.

To be fair, I'm not 100% sure where this particular radioactive waste originated, the documentary kinda mixes Nuke plants being dismantled in with the Chernobyl bits. It's becoming a huge problem for Germany now though.