Excellent information! It is amazing what goes into processed foods. I should say … shocking! Thank you for pointing out some of the products that contain propylene glycol!
BTW … I hope you will be observing Earth Hour 2009. It’s going to be a wonderful, global effort!
Well, I work for an industrial magazine and I thought that provided MOG has the USP grade(United States Pharmacopeia) there was no danger for the health. As many other chemicals, it is safe if it’s composition is properly controlled. Please tell me if i’m wrong, but several experts have informed me about that.
Well, I work for an industrial magazine and I thought that provided MPG has the USP grade(United States Pharmacopeia) there was no danger for the health. As many other chemicals, it is safe if it’s composition is properly controlled. Please tell me if i’m wrong, but several experts have informed me about that.
I have heard similar things, but I am still reluctant to use products like PG. Products like Propylene Glycol are only really necessary in products that need to be preserved or thickened. If we move towards getting foods fresh and stop eating so many package and processed foods, there little need for foods like PG.
Thank you for info. I am very much aware of the unhealthy ingredients that are used in comestics AND foods we consume. For instance, ACESULFAME-K used in diet sodas. Inadvertently, picked up a diet soda about two weeks ago, opened it, after drinking some of the soda I realized something was not right…looked at the bottle… next, read the nutritional facts and ingredients… I began to feel a slight headache, I knew something was wrong. I has an allergic reaction to “ACESULFAME-K”. This is a sweetner approved by the FDA in 1998. Also, found in baked goods, chewing gum, and so forth. However, I look out for ALL the bad ingredients. WOW!
It’s amazing how uninformed people on the internet spew out facts without doing any research into what they are talking about… and by research i dont mean just picking quotes and facts that suit them…. im all for investigation but numpties online with little information just give people like the FDA a reason to laugh and point
I understand MPG is especially toxic to cats only. Thats why the FDA pulled it’s use in catfood.
Lab tests have shown that continued feed of MPG in rats found no toxemia.
I’m sitting here with a bottle of propolis 50% that’s stabilised in MPG. Purchased from a health food shop one presumes everyting is safe.(got it for my cat who has a cold) It concerns me that slighty ‘dodgy’ ingredients are used when there are other alternatives out there that are non-toxic.
General rule of thumb – if you can’t pronounce it don’t eat it or smother it on your skin!!
(What;s the guessing the shop won’t give me a refund for this bottle) Ha!!
Ethylene Glycol is a different formula and is not associated with PG at all. It’s carbon and hydrogen binding is at a different level. If your aim is to make PG, then that’s what you get… not EG. Just wanted to help clear that up, because there’s way too much misinformation floating around out there and it causes people to get confused.
Excellent information! It is amazing what goes into processed foods. I should say … shocking! Thank you for pointing out some of the products that contain propylene glycol!
BTW … I hope you will be observing Earth Hour 2009. It’s going to be a wonderful, global effort!
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I will definitely be observing Earth Hour 🙂 I will be sending out a reminder in a week or so to make sure everybody knows about it.
Well, I work for an industrial magazine and I thought that provided MOG has the USP grade(United States Pharmacopeia) there was no danger for the health. As many other chemicals, it is safe if it’s composition is properly controlled. Please tell me if i’m wrong, but several experts have informed me about that.
Well, I work for an industrial magazine and I thought that provided MPG has the USP grade(United States Pharmacopeia) there was no danger for the health. As many other chemicals, it is safe if it’s composition is properly controlled. Please tell me if i’m wrong, but several experts have informed me about that.
I have heard similar things, but I am still reluctant to use products like PG. Products like Propylene Glycol are only really necessary in products that need to be preserved or thickened. If we move towards getting foods fresh and stop eating so many package and processed foods, there little need for foods like PG.
09/28/2009
The sleuth
Thank you for info. I am very much aware of the unhealthy ingredients that are used in comestics AND foods we consume. For instance, ACESULFAME-K used in diet sodas. Inadvertently, picked up a diet soda about two weeks ago, opened it, after drinking some of the soda I realized something was not right…looked at the bottle… next, read the nutritional facts and ingredients… I began to feel a slight headache, I knew something was wrong. I has an allergic reaction to “ACESULFAME-K”. This is a sweetner approved by the FDA in 1998. Also, found in baked goods, chewing gum, and so forth. However, I look out for ALL the bad ingredients. WOW!
TALK AT YOU LATER
It’s amazing how uninformed people on the internet spew out facts without doing any research into what they are talking about… and by research i dont mean just picking quotes and facts that suit them…. im all for investigation but numpties online with little information just give people like the FDA a reason to laugh and point
I understand MPG is especially toxic to cats only. Thats why the FDA pulled it’s use in catfood.
Lab tests have shown that continued feed of MPG in rats found no toxemia.
I’m sitting here with a bottle of propolis 50% that’s stabilised in MPG. Purchased from a health food shop one presumes everyting is safe.(got it for my cat who has a cold) It concerns me that slighty ‘dodgy’ ingredients are used when there are other alternatives out there that are non-toxic.
General rule of thumb – if you can’t pronounce it don’t eat it or smother it on your skin!!
(What;s the guessing the shop won’t give me a refund for this bottle) Ha!!
Ethylene Glycol is a different formula and is not associated with PG at all. It’s carbon and hydrogen binding is at a different level. If your aim is to make PG, then that’s what you get… not EG. Just wanted to help clear that up, because there’s way too much misinformation floating around out there and it causes people to get confused.