I made a typo, thank you for noticing, and I corrected it in my original post.
Meanwhile, define "small amounts are 100% toxic." That's the king of misinformation right there.
In the USA, considered-safe levels are something like 0.05-0.07 mg per kg of body weight per day. For example, 200 lbs is approximately 90 kgs... so if you are 90 kgs, you could ingest 4.5 to 6.3 mgs of sodium nitrite per day. So if you are talking about "trace amounts" and trying to claim they are toxic, you should understand that "trace amounts" would be considerably lower than the scientifically considered safe amounts.
As I said, lots of meats have sodium nitrite in them. Allowing of course for some people to have an increased sensitivity to the ingredient, as in all things where some people have lower tolerance and some folks are deathly allergic to peanut powder, for instance... but if you don't have a reason to think you have a specific problem with sodium nitrite otherwise, then trace amounts would be fine.
I mean, there are going to be trace amounts on the outside of the container of sodium nitrite from when it was originally packaged, and if you've opened it you were likely exposed to trace amounts as well. So my original accidental (and now corrected) typo aside, you're incorrectly misinforming people of how dangerous sodium nitrite is yourself.
<Edit>. I agree that the blender absolutely should have been washed... and this was done, apparently according to the earlier post.
You're kinda straw-manning/misdirecting at this point if we aren't talking about different trace amounts.
I'm not talking about two specks of SN on the outside of a package, but small quantities that are more than the safe trace amounts in food. SN has killed people as low as 500mg, which is roughly 7.3mg per kg of body weight. The link below confirms as low as 1g.
If you have SN, I would recommend measuring out 500mg. That is really not a lot (visually and volume-wise). 500mg is about 1/10 of a teaspoon. And that's just the minimum dose that can kill you.
Severe effects of of poisoning will still occur at much lower doses
So the
upper range safe amount is 6.3mg for a 200lb person, which is definitely heavier than average for a human. Let's be generous and say someone accidentally consumes 10x that from a blender that was improperly cleaned and had 63mg stuck in a crevice, which again, is a visibly very miniscule amount of SN.
Are they going to die? Probably not? Are they going to be sickened and may even need medical help? Very likely.
An average sausage contains 0.0152% SN. An average sausage is 150g. That's 0.23mg of SN per sausage, so understandable why someone doesn't get sick from a single sausage but consuming 273x in 63mg? Yeah they are going to be violently sick. Imagine you're going to be feeling some effects even at the safe limit, just not severe ones. That would be the equivalent of eating pounds and pounds of cured meat.
At this point I am hoping that there is some miscommunication and you are not suggesting 63mg or any amount above the daily safe intake of SN is safe.
There's a reason why the safe daily intake is called the
safe daily intake
Hence why I called your post misinformation. And dangerous at that. I don't want anyone on this site to be harmed and hope you feel the same.
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