You won't believe where Silly Putty is hiding in your food! (gross but informative)

[peacebird]

"Dimethylpolysiloxane 101 (a.k.a. Silly Putty)
Dimethylsiloxane is commonly used in vinegary-smelling silicone caulks, adhesives, and aquarium sealants, a component in silicone grease and other silicone based lubricants, as well as in defoaming agents, mold release agents, damping fluids, heat transfer fluids, polishes, cosmetics, hair conditioners AND IN OUR FOOD!

There have been no major studies conducted on the safety of dimethylsiloxane in food by the FDA or the Food Industry since it was approved in 1998, but the food industry is allowed to use it in anything they want (except milk). Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwiches, McDonalds French Fries, KFC Mash Potatoes and Biscuits, Taco Bell Cinnamon Twists, Five Guys French Fries, Dominos Bread Sticks, and on and on – the list of guilty restaurants is mind-blowing."

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Scary stuff, and what really burns my grits is this bit: the same food giants change their formulations for Europe and do not include half the chemical crap we in the states get! More at the link.
http://foodbabe.com/2013/10/22/sillyputty/

[Laelth]

1. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[Kablooie]

2. Silly Putty makes an inexpensive substitute for escargot. Yum.

[dorkzilla]

3. Five Guys Frech Fries??? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I love them! (sniff sniff).

[Dustlawyer]

15. Same here, well maybe it will put a bounce in my step!

[Kelvin Mace]

27. I gave up eating there

When their owners came out attacking the ACA and saying they would cut employee hours rather than comply with the law.

[dorkzilla]

29. Ooh, I didn't hear about that one.

Are they not franchises? They're all company owned?

Either way (sigh)...i guess they're on my list of places I can't patronize. I wish people would stop airing their idiotic views via their business (not that I eat out all that much).

[Kelvin Mace]

34. Not sure,

but I stick to locally-owned restaurants for the most part.

[LuvNewcastle]

4. There's a reason why people are so much fatter in America than in Europe.

It's not like they starve themselves over there; Europeans eat well. They just don't allow food companies to put all the shit in their food that we do. We've got to start paying attention to what we put in our bodies, and we need an FDA that actually regulates.

[GeorgeGist]

5. A government for the people ...

Would be a start.

[dorkzilla]

30. Every time I visit my family in the UK, they stuff me like a goose and I LOSE weight.

The walking helps too, although that's probably off-set by all the drinking we do.

[pam4water]

6. OHNOES not Five Guys French Fries. I love or loved Five Guys French Fries! K&R

[fasttense]

7. I went to the link to read the rest of the article. It is very interesting

but the comments are very stupid.

Really they think a corporation stuffing silly putty into food is all the fault of our government? Isn't the corporation at fault? Isn't it time we held corporations accountable for their actions instead of theorizing that the government is trying to poison us? It is McDonald's, Coke's, Chick-fil-a, Burger King etc.... fault.

And the people's fault for allowing our government to turn into a corporate whore.

Get rid of capitalism and there is no incentive to feed people silly putty.

[Nine]

8. Your post doesn't make sense.

You're saying it's not all the government's fault for not regulating better, but it is the fault of the people for allowing the government to not regulate better. You're saying we should hold corporations directly responsible - presumably through the free market forces right wingers love to tout -and yet we should do away with capitalism.

How about the US government just stops letting corporations put dangerous stuff in our food, the way governments in Europe do?

[TBF]

16. Maybe you're confused. Getting rid of the capitalism

solves the problem entirely. It is the approach I always advocate.

If we can't accomplish that (or until we accomplish that as I like to say) - we could try regulation and/or labeling laws. It is only going to lead to corporations doing whatever they can to get around the regs/labeling though, buying off inspectors, etc. Historically capital has pushed back hard whenever there have been attempts to reign it in.

[fasttense]

36. I was commenting on a specific post that claimed our government was trying to poison us.

Our government is NOT trying to poison us, the corporation IS trying to poison us (Or just doesn't care if we are slowly poisoned by eating their food). They (the corporations) merely want short term profits no matter what. Yes, corporations are at fault but I do not believe free market forces will do any good.

Free market forces and capitalism are what caused this short sighted profits at all cost problem. Allowing a handful of anonymous shareholders, investors and boards of directors to make decisions that impact all of our lives is draconian but it is exactly how our capitalist economic system is structured.

When a corporation fires thousands of employees we get mad at out government instead of getting mad at the corporation that actually did the firing.

I blame American citizens for putting up with capitalism's dysfunctions for so long. Except for Occupy, there has been very little push back against this feudal economic system.

It would be great if we could get out federal government to stop letting corporations put poisons in our foods. Some EU countries are able to do it. But since we give all the wealth and power to anonymous corporate executives and investors, these people will always use their wealth and power to overturn laws that prevent them from maximizing profits at the cost of slowly poisoning other less powerful people. Until you take away their wealth and power, corporations will constantly be looking to cut cost and make a profit no matter who suffers.

[groundloop]

9. It's not just food. Those of you that smoke......

I had to help install equipment at a tobacco processing plant once, and couldn't believe what I was seeing. They swept all the tobacco dust off the floor (including mud that gets dragged in from outdoors, including hydraulic oil from leaky fork trucks, whatever), and it all goes back in with the product.

I'm SO glad I don't smoke.

[Heather MC]

10. You have to be your Own FDA

Our Government Is owned and operated by the corporations. One day they will sell add space on the capital dome. The White House will be renamed, The Nabisco White House, brought to you by the Makers of the Keebler Elf Cookies. Viagra Adds will Hang from Washington Monument. It will be so tacky, but then the true owners of our Government will be well known

[Auggie]

22. You have to cook and buy quality ingredients too

[DeeDeeNY]

11. Ugh! That must be why Five Guys French Fries taste so good!

[Javaman]

20. Don't worry, they'll make it work for them. "Now with more Silly Putty!" nt

[Brickbat]

12. Here's the rule about dimethylpolysiloxane.

10 parts per million in food, or at such level in a concentrated food that when prepared as directed on the labels, the food in its ready-for-consumption state will have not more than 10 parts per million except as follows: Zero in milk; 110 parts per million in dry gelatin dessert mixes labeled for use whereby no more than 16 parts per million is present in the ready-to-serve dessert; 250 parts per million in salt labeled for cooking purposes, whereby no more than 10 parts per million is present in the cooked food.

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=173.340

[onlyadream]

13. It's in table salt?

So basically, if we think we're cooking healthy, staying away from prepared food, we're still getting this crap??? UGHHHH!!!!

[Brickbat]

25. Definitions are hard to come by, but I think table salt is different than cooking salt.

[shanti]

31. How so?

[Brickbat]

32. I think they're processed differently. Table salt is fairly fine-grained and I know it's "baked" to

make it taste and pour more uniformly. Cooking salt can mean bulk salt that is used in industrial food plants when mixing up breads, cereals, soups and other processed foods.

[shanti]

33. Rock salt might be a workaround

The kind you grind yourself. That is unless they coat it in the "silly putty" stuff before it's sold...

[progressoid]

21. So that's about an 5 ounces in every ton of food.

[TBF]

14. We need much stronger labeling laws in this country -

I do like the salads at Chik fil A and yogurt from Mcdonalds or starbucks. I hope they are not putting silly putty in those items.

I went on a diet this year and one element is to not eat out so much - both me and my children look much better (and feel better).

[LuvNewcastle]

18. That was a good decision.

Eating fast food, or really any restaurant food, isn't healthy at all. They all use chemical-laden food. It's all right to go out every now and then, but doing it too often is hazardous to your health. It's best to try to eat at home as much as you can and pack lunches to take to work.

[Orrex]

17. I like pressing my french fries to the Sunday comics and lifting the images

Delicious good fun!

[A Simple Game]

19. And french fries are so much easier to get out of the carpet. n/t

[tosh]

24. Great website!

Wow - I learned a lot there.

[IrishAyes]

26. They don't include it in shipments for Europe because Europeans wouldn't stand for it.

More proof America should rethink some of its attitude that we're superior in every way to every other place and peoples upon the earth. Ability to whup ass doesn't make us necessarily smarter or better. It just makes us the biggest dog in the yard.

[SammyWinstonJack]

28. ugh!

[RebelOne]

35. I rarely eat fast food, much less french fries. n/t