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- Path: sparky!uunet!pacdata!jimh
- From: jimh@pacdata.uucp (Jim Harkins)
- Subject: Re: Disconcerting goop from aluminum baking pan
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.175710.2949@pacdata.uucp>
- Organization: Pacific Data Products
- References: <l7ba9lINNkbo@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> <1992Aug9.105351.10628@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <2592@tivoli.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:57:10 GMT
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- In article <2592@tivoli.UUCP> dfavor@logan.tivoli.com (David Favor) writes:
- >aluminum cooking can be grossly hazardous to your health. I wish I
- >had kept a newspaper article I read (somewhere in Texas or Oklahoma).
- >this article described a church social where a mass of strawberry
- >rubarb pie filling was cooked in aluminum pans. it seems that the
- >fruit's acid reacted with each of the pans, liberating large quantities
- >of aluminum. several older church members died and all the rest were
- >admitted to local hospitals.
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- Male bovine creature excrement alert! I really can't buy this. In today's
- litigous environment just the lawsuits filed would have been all over the
- media. Never mind any health concerns. You do know they sell the Weekly
- World News in Texas and Oklahoma, don't you?
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- Aluminum may or may not cause alzheimers (sp?), but it's going to take 20-30
- years. These people probably got your everyday, ordinary food poisoning.
-
- jim
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