Hydroxylic Acid Alert! …Is it in *your* food? | Sybaritica

Each and every year, Hydroxylic Acid, also known by its more complex chemical name, μ-oxido dihydrogen, is directly responsible for hundreds, if not thousands of deaths worldwide. The international industrial conglomerates collectively known as ‘Big Food’ are well aware of this, but this clearly means little to these impersonal corporate giants, as the compound is used extensively throughout the agri-business industry and all too frequently ends up in the packaged products that you and I eat on a daily basis…

A recent survey of commonly consumed foodstuffs revealed that, out of four hundred and fifty foodstuffs selected at random from grocery store shelves, a staggering percentage contained Hydroxylic Acid in more than just trace amounts! When you consider that this colorless and odorless substance is not only used in the production of Styrofoam, but also as a flame retardant and as a common industrial solvent, you have to wonder: Is there something that ‘Big Food’ is not telling us?

Specific tests are not being undertaken on a regular basis, unfortunately, but the evidence points very strongly to the proposition that Hydroxylic Acid is present in significant numbers of malignant tumors taken both surgically and in post-mortem cases. This is true in liver, bowel and pancreatic cancers and the results are the same not just for clinical studies involving laboratory animals but human patients too… How is it then, that food companies can get way with using this substance not only at the agricultural level, but in many stages of food manufacture and processing as well?

Recently, I came across an article written by a young lady who warned her readers of the dangers of consuming ‘chemical cocktails’. This article, I assure you, is a real one, but I hesitate to provide a link as I do not wish to draw attention to the courageous blogger in question, particularly as one never knows what blogs the agents of ‘Big Food’ might be monitoring. In any event, this young lady provided some stern warnings and gave us the following piece of advice (and I quote):

‘Don’t buy anything that has any numbers or words you aren’t familiar with’.

These are sage words indeed. Clearly, as this writer suggests, if a chemical name is unfamiliar it is obviously harmful and should be avoided at all costs. The problem, though, is that, when it comes to Hydroxylic Acid, following this general strategy just might not be enough!

You can scan food label after food label and not once come across the words ‘Hydroxylic Acid’, nor any of its chemical ‘aliases’ such as ‘μ-oxido dihydrogen’, or ‘dihydrogen monoxide’. The reason for this is that food companies can (quite legally) avoid doing so by resorting to a few tricks. Firstly, the substance often gets specified under some innocuous name and secondly (and much more commonly), these industrial conglomerates are able to practice a little subterfuge by merely listing other ingredients that themselves contain the compound. Tamarind extract and certain fruit concentrates, to name a couple of examples, are frequently added to a number of condiments but ‘Big Food’ is under no legal obligation to inform you that all of these may very well contain Hydroxylic Acid in clinically significant amounts.

What then, is it about this chemical that makes it not merely potentially harmful, but actually deadly in certain cases?

Some astute readers will have noticed the similarity between the name ‘dihydrogen monoxide’ and the more familiar ‘carbon monoxide’. Is there, one wonders, a connection between carbon monoxide poisoning and various food additives? If this notion troubles you, then let me divert you with this startling but very real fact…

• Sudden death directly attributable to Hydroxylic acid very often occurs as a result of ‘accidental’ inhalation!!

At this point, I could toss out a few terms like ‘Monoamine Oxidase’ and ‘Fractional distillation’ but I don’t want a lot of ‘science’ to get in the way of some popular misconceptions. Firstly, Hydroxylic Acid is molecule with a ‘polar’ structure. Basically, this means that certain electrical forces cause atoms within the molecule to rest at an angle of 104.45 degrees to each other, and this gives the substance some unique properties. At certain temperature ranges, Hydroxylic Acid actually expands where other substances contract and it is in this state (and especially in this state) that it can indirectly present some potential, but very real hazards. By the way, let me repeat that the relevant angle here is 104.45 degrees… *NOT* 105… if this doesn’t immediately strike you, then bear in mind what out brave young blogger had to say about unfamiliar ‘numbers’ and think very, very carefully about the possible ramifications!

The fact that this chemical is a ‘Polar’ molecule has some very real impact on residents of Arctic regions. Each year, tons of industrial contaminants are carried across the poles from Asia and are deposited here on this continent. Accidental spills of Hydroxylic acid occur from time to time, but it is also true that the chemical is regularly dumped into the environment intentionally with little, or no treatment at all.

The gentleman pictured above is Joe K., a resident of Pond inlet, Nunavut, and a respected elder who has an indirect connection with a former employee of the Maliiganik Tulisiiniakvik organization. Before I continue, I need to point out that he vigorously denies that has he ever been in the employ of the Canadian Intelligence Services, and quite believably avoided any suggestion that his mortgage payments are being made by any left-wing environmental group.

Recently, Mr K. took me to a local lake. “We drink from here”, he told me. “This stuff is delivered to many Inuit households by truck”.

My informant went on to tell me that, until a short time ago, he had never heard of Hydroxylic Acid and then shrugged. “But still, we all know there is something coming to us in those trucks… My people just call it Immiq…”

Clearly, one might educate oneself on the various components of the food and drink we consume, and possibly even rely on the information provided by credentialed experts in connection with such things, or, as a much safe alternative, we can simply take the advice of the young lady blogger mentioned above and avoid any substance whose name sounds suspiciously like some sort of chemical.

The choice is yours…

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