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this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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Detectable is not the same thing as being found at a level known to be harmful. The concentration of things matters.
~~"it's totally fine that you were all exposed to cyanide, it's nowhere near toxic levels! You're overreacting." - Some guy working for the people who exposed everyone to syanide~~
I urge all the people somehow disagreeing with the spirit of this statement to go ahead and drink some cyanide.
Your body literally produces cyanide all the time, it's just really good at metabolizing it quickly before it builds up to a harmful concentration... so yeah, great example.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ac980498b?casa_token=boif8fhideiaaaaa%3akcfhnwkqe8mtgropqjnkyldk9ie09zz9gdtcgrgq2p5af5yh9xnsshwpxy_ie6h4wb8yrvaagkwtvxjz