Trisodium phosphate, otherwise known as trisodium orthophosphate, sodium phosphate, or TSP, is well known by construction workers, DIYers, and developers, but not to most parents shopping for their morning meal. It is an inorganic phosphate which can be detrimental to our health. It is often used in place of mineral spirits to remove paint!
Just some of the minor problems with eating TSP include:
- The reduction of bone density due to mineral leechingPesticideinfo.org says that this substance should be avoided at all cost. Just as Subway removed a harmful additive to their breads recently due to a blogger's pressure and subsequent petition, signed by thousands, this substance needs to be removed from all food, or indigestible items - especially cereals or baby toothpaste that children consume.
- Calcification of the kidneys
- Serious irritation of gastric mucosa
- Abdominal burning
- Shock
You can let your local grocery stores know that they shouldn't carry products which contain TSP. You can boycott items yourself that contain it, or you can tell the FDA just what you think of their 'safe' classification of this obvious toxin. Consumers have a right to non-toxic foods, and TSP definitely doesn't belong in a bowl of your kid's cereal.
A video posted to YouTube Monday shows Las Vegas residents reacting to the news that their favorite cereals contain trisodium phosphate, more commonly referred to as paint thinner.
When I was a kid growing up in Los Angeles, I worked for a movie house as an usher during summers. The young latino cleaners at the theatre employed this very nasty cleaning agent called, "TSP" which was, to my best recollection, tri-sodium phosphate. It was used to mop up the (usually filthy) concrete floor the next morning before opening, and was very irritating to the throat and lungs, if exposed to the fumes for long (the workers used boiling water with TSP in it, so the fumes were pretty strong!) The young latino kids were always coughing and spitting sputum and crap out, and I wonder how much of that was from using the TSP cleaner, day in and day out for years. It sure made my eyes water and my throat/lungs get irritated!
I certainly hope I am wrong here, but if that's the crap the FDA has been allowing in kid's breakfast cereals, I wouldn't be the slightest surprised.
Disgusted? Absolutely!
Nauseated? Completely!
But not surprised. Not at all.
Insuring the continued, non-stop stuffing of America's youth and citizenry with toxins and poisons seems to be the FDA's biggest (and only) task currently.
Between various toxic adjuvants in vaccines, mind-fucking ADHD drugs and other psychological cocktails (prozac, zoloft, etc.) for kids (and their parents, too!), and the seemingly endless list of 'killer' drugs that get approved despite obvious methodological flaws in the testing protocols, and then only recalled AFTER countless deaths and/or injuries (and wildly HUGE profits for Big Pharma, by allowing the sales to go on long enough to MORE than cover the measly fines that will inevitably follow withdrawal from the market of these never-should-have-been-released poisons masquerading as treatments for illness), one gets the idea that the FDA is really an acronym for the "Federal Death Administration".