Why Rocket Fuel Has Been Contaminating Our Food and Water for Years(consumerreports.org)

Why Rocket Fuel Has Been Contaminating Our Food and Water for Years

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/why-perchlorate-has-contaminated-food-and-water-for-years-a1065715826/

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Sure, food is contaminated with rocket fuel in the same way that it's contaminated with embalming fluid.

Formaldehyde is SCARY! It's EMBALMING fluid used on DEAD PEOPLE!! Definitely shouldn't be in our drinking water!!!

Clickbait garbage.

Also, "perchlorate" is not a chemical. It's an entire class of chemicals, many of which occur naturally. Is there some perchlorate pollution in the food and water supply? Probably. Does it have anything at all to do with rocket fuel? Sure, probably around 0.0001%.

E: after thinking for a couple of minutes, they probably are talking about potassium perchlorate (I only skimmed the article until the 'zomg rocket fuel' panic). This is an extremely common chemical both in the lab and in all sorts of consumer products, but mainly pyrotechnics. It also doesn't appear to be particularly toxic; it seems to affect iodine uptake by the thyroid, but long term studies seem to be inconclusive.