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To: John Carragher who wrote (1229)9/23/2008 1:13:16 AM
From: ManyMoose   of 39288
 
We know the toxicity of many chemicals. Usually it is expressed a term called LD50, or the Lethal Dose that will kill 50 percent of the test subjects.

Typical LD-50s rats--mg of substance per kg of body weight:

Sugar 29,700 mg/kg
Ethanol Unleaded Gasoline 7060 mg/kg
Roundup 5,600 mg/kg
Table Salt 3,000 mg/kg
Caffeine 194 mg/kg
Sodium Cyanide 6.4 mg/kg

I thought it was interesting that table salt and caffeine were more poisonous than Roundup and gasoline, yet we do not have people protesting in the streets over it.
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