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The Irish Figured This Out – What’s Wrong With Our FDA?

The Irish Figured This Out – What’s Wrong With Our FDA?

Apricot pits contain amygdalin, which, when chewed up and exposed to salivary enzymes, is converted into cyanide. A few years ago, a Safety Ranger named Nicole Piela MD, contacted me to ask about a big old bag of apricot seeds that she found at her parents house. She thought it was strange that her parents bought this bag of potential poison at their local health food store, so we contacted the FDA (actually my sister-in-law who is a regional FDA manager) and she forwarded my concerns up the chain, but the answer came down that this product was a Canadian import and there have been no complaints of people having been injured by it, so there is nothing they can do. We contacted the manufacturer who had some bizarre theories about “good cyanide” and “bad cyanide” and had some pretty convincing bible passages to support his theory. I contacted an old friend, Jeff Suchard MD, who published one of the only papers describing an actual patient that became very sick after eating some apricot pits and Dr. Suchard wrote to say that, according to his calculations, there was enough cyanide (amygdalin) in this bag to kill 8 adults if they all decided to sit down and eat the whole bag at one sitting. So why is it that the Irish government can figure this out and issue a safety warning against apricot kernels and out own government can’t figure that out?

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/food-safety-watchdog-issue-warning-against-apricot-kernels-over-cyanide-poisoning-399199.htmlcyanide_poisoning

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Gerry O'Malley (a.k.a Poison Boy) is a board certified ER doctor and toxicologist with a interest in the unusual, terrifying and occasionally hilarious world of poisonings and toxicology. This site is an exploration of poisons of historical interest as well as in current events and pop culture.

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