Emergency Public market fruit vendors are using artifical ripping chemicals!

Well, no one ever provided a link to a study that stated what the actual numbers were for the increased cancer risk, probably because no one knows, so I thought I would just pull a random one outta my so Google can index this thread and add it to the list of sh*t sources I found when looking for the answer.

However, just because something is in widespread use doesn't mean it is good for ya. Someone had to eventually come around and tell your generation to stop munching on those lead-based paint chips and asbestos. This chemical mentioned in the OP could be extremely nasty and, just like what happened with lead-based paint and asbestos, their manufacturers could very well be covering information/studies up that prove their dangers just so they can keep turning a profit. Or not, I dunno.

 

I guess I'll provide my sources since nobody else wants to. It seems that most people cursing this chemical around the internets focus heavily on two of its byproducts.

So does nearly every food item you put in your face hole. Are these "traces of arsenic" at a level that is harmful to humans? You would think that if it was at dangerous levels they would say exactly how much arsenic was/could be found on fruit it was used on and just come right out and say it is dangerous to humans. I think they knew that adding the word "dangerous", "harmful", "toxic", etc anywhere in that sentence would have landed them in some legal troubles with the manufacturers of calcium carbide.

The language used in your post, much of it found verbatim on other websites, appears to be extremely misleading, so much so that I believe it to be done to fit a narrative. No idea what company, government agency or person put that out there or what they are wanting to accomplish is, but it appears they had a team of attorneys comb through their findings/press releases to make it sound as dangerous and scary as possible without risking a libel case from manufacturers.

Phosphorus hydride (Phosphine)

Seems whoever wrote that "both compounds are also carcinogenic" part forgot to mention that there is only evidence that Phosphine (Phosphorus Hydride) may be carcinogenic to certain animals (but even that data is "inadequate")...not humans. So again, it appears there is a narrative that this information needs to fit into.