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Water listed as "Toxic Substance" under US Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976!

RogueRose - 16-8-2018 at 06:32

I was looking up the rules for listing "trade secret" ingredients in products on their MSDS or SDS and came across some ingredients listed as being on the inventory of the TSCA - which lists just under 68,000 different compounds, chemicals, elements, etc and one of them being water, yes plain H2O!

I'm not sure what to say about that, but it seems that someone may have gone a little overboard in listing these things, possibly as a means of control through bureaucracy - meaning they can prosecute people for violating the TSCA by discharging water from their property. I can't really think of a reason why this would be listed, sure you can get "water poisoning" but that is different. If water can be included, what can't be?

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[Edited on 8-16-2018 by RogueRose]

DrP - 16-8-2018 at 06:52

:D

http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html


Ethanol is on their list also.

[Edited on 16-8-2018 by DrP]

JJay - 16-8-2018 at 08:05

Ethanol and water kill more people than all other chemicals combined. :-|

Sigmatropic - 16-8-2018 at 08:47

Just wait until nitrogen becomes regulated. No one is safe and exposure cannot be prevented.

mayko - 16-8-2018 at 09:31

A substance being on the TSCA inventory doesn't mean that the TSCA considers that substance toxic:

https://www.epa.gov/tsca-inventory/about-tsca-chemical-subst...

elementcollector1 - 16-8-2018 at 15:13

So, I'm presuming the fact that human bodies are 70-80% water doesn't bother you?

If being immortal and healthy means becoming a shriveled, dehydrated husk... I think I'll just stick with mortality, thanks.

Vosoryx - 16-8-2018 at 19:24

Can somebody PLEASE clip PhD out of this damn thread?

Dragonjack12 - 18-9-2018 at 19:27

Help I think I found dihydrogen monoxide falling from the sky