Health Canada is recalling multiple brands of multivitamins and supplements due to concerns the products may contain harmful metal fibres.
Canadians are being advised to stop using various multivitamins and supplements from several brands after Health Canada said the products may contain metal fibres that could injure people’s digestive system.
Could be copper. Or aluminum. Or titanium, for that matter. Lots of possibilities in “metal” that would allow the label to still be technically truthful.
At least lead is better than mercury or americinium since both of those metals have no business in vitamins but might be used in vicinity in older fire alarms and thermometers.
If we are going worst case and a box of old alarms or thermometers got stored improperly and got crushed into the mix
Can’t be mercury, since it’s liquid at room temperature and so wouldn’t form “fibres”. Americum . . . wouldn’t be impossible (and it’s still used in smoke detectors to this day, I believe), but the amount in a stack of smoke detectors isn’t quite the worst case—there would be more radioactive material in an orphaned radiotherapy or radiography source, which is also wildly improbable but not quite impossible as a multivitamin additive. At least it isn’t likely to be an abandoned Soviet radioisotope generator this time.
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Could be copper. Or aluminum. Or titanium, for that matter. Lots of possibilities in “metal” that would allow the label to still be technically truthful.
Let’s just hope it isn’t lead.
At least lead is better than mercury or americinium since both of those metals have no business in vitamins but might be used in vicinity in older fire alarms and thermometers.
If we are going worst case and a box of old alarms or thermometers got stored improperly and got crushed into the mix
Can’t be mercury, since it’s liquid at room temperature and so wouldn’t form “fibres”. Americum . . . wouldn’t be impossible (and it’s still used in smoke detectors to this day, I believe), but the amount in a stack of smoke detectors isn’t quite the worst case—there would be more radioactive material in an orphaned radiotherapy or radiography source, which is also wildly improbable but not quite impossible as a multivitamin additive. At least it isn’t likely to be an abandoned Soviet radioisotope generator this time.
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