TheGiantKorean

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[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today 11 points 21 hours ago

Several years ago I became allergic to milk (like actually allergic, not lactose intolerant). I'm doing oral immunotherapy treatments for it now, so I have to drink 20mL of it a day. I used to love milk before I became allergic to it. Now I can't stand it. I'm not sure how I enjoyed it so much.

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

This is not really a big deal.

https://news.immunologic.org/p/consumer-reports-latest-panic-toxic

The MADL for lead outlined by Proposition 65 is 0.5 µg of lead per day. This value was set, arbitrarily in 1989, even though scientific evidence continues to show that it’s wildly unrealistic and not remotely near an exposure that would be a health concern. It remains unchanged because Prop 65 is a political tool, not a scientific one. Consumer Reports decides to ignore FDA interim reference levels for lead in their assessment. These levels are 8.8 µg per day for reproductive age females and 12.5 µg for general adults, 17.6-times and 25-times higher daily exposure levels compared to the Prop 65 levels, respectively, and are already extremely conservative (more on how those are calculated in a moment).

Not saying you shouldn't take it into consideration, but it's not as big of a deal as CR is making it out to be.