PHOs are saturated in the grand majority of American food products and is a staple cliché for the Standard American Diet (SAD). These trans fats – canola, corn, soybean, cottonseed, rapeseed, pumpkin seed, some peanut oils – are chemical byproducts from industrial use, and therefore are very unhealthy due to the heavy oxidation goes through.
In order extract the oils and create the fairly colorless and odorless oils at the stores and in most American foods, a chemical solvent known as hexane – which can be found in gasoline used to fuel vehicles – is used to achieve this process.
PubChem describes how hexane is used:
n-Hexane is a chemical made from crude oil. Pure n-Hexane is a colorless liquid with a slightly disagreeable odor. It is highly flammable, and its vapors can be explosive. Puren-Hexane is used in laboratories.
Most of then-Hexane used in industry is mixed with similar chemicals called solvents. The major use for solvents containing n-Hexane is to extract vegetable oils from crops such as soybeans.
These solvents are also used as cleaning agents in the printing, textile, furniture, and shoemaking industries. Certain kinds of special glues used in the roofing and shoe and leather industries also contain n-Hexane. Several consumer products contain-Hexane, such as gasoline, quick-drying glues used in various hobbies, and rubber cement.
Pon Pure Chemicals Group explains the overall process as to how hexane is used to extract the oils:
To begin the process of solvent extraction, oil seeds (soybean, rapeseed etc.) are removed of impurities and dried to reduce moisture content. The next step is to crack the seeds for size reduction, they are then flattened to form flakes which increases the surface area to facilitate easier extraction.
In the succeeding step food grade hexane is fed as counter current and the solvent extracts oil from the flakes. Then the solvent is evaporated from the oil solvent mixture and from the defatted flakes by exposing them to steam by direct or indirect method. The solvent is condensed to recover back hexane. The oil which is devoid of the solvent undergoes further processing to achieve commercial quality.
The process of making these oils, as described, is rather disgusting and not very appetizing. The show How It’s Made displays how these oils are made, though some in the comments point out that the entire process was not adequately shown.
The list of health effects trans facts and PHOs cause have been well-documented, causing a wide array of health issues – from obesity, to cancer, heart disease, coronary artery disease, infertility, impaired liver function, diminished memory, acne, increased depression, and more.
To know if the food you are eating has these oils, the ingredients list on the package will say that it contains partially hydrogenated oils or list the specific oil it uses. If the product is not labeled USDA Organic, or some other kind of clear labeling saying otherwise, the oil is most likely inorganic and has gone through some level of processing that is not the healthiest or potentially safest.
After decades of allowing these oils to be used in food products, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now finally set to ban these oils. The World Health Organization has even set a goal to finally remove these oils from circulation by this year.
Earlier this August the FDA is now saying PHOs are no longer Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS), and has passed a new guidance that would remove most of these oils from premade foods and as additives.
According to Food Safety Magazine, unless overturned, the FDA will now mandate the following:
- Revises regulations to no longer include PHOs as an optional ingredient in the standards of identity for peanut butter and canned tuna.
- Revises FDA GRAS affirmation regulations to no longer include partially hydrogenated forms of menhaden and rapeseed oils.
- Revokes the regulation for partially hydrogenated fish oil as an indirect food substance.
- Revokes pre-1958 authorization for using PHOs in margarine, shortening, bread, rolls, and buns. This authorization occurred before the enactment of the Food Additives Amendment of 1958 so such uses of PHOs could not be regulated as food additives.
The magazine provides further details:
FDA is issuing the present amendments directly as a final rule because the agency anticipates no significant adverse comments due to the original declaration of PHOs no longer being GRAS for any human food in 2015. However, the agency is issuing a companion proposed rule on the same issue in the Federal Register in case the direct final rule is withdrawn in the case of significant adverse comments, and because the agency needs to move forward with a proposed rule to enact changes.
FDA is accepting comments on both the direct final and proposed rules. Comments must be submitted no later than 75 days after publication in the Federal Register. Electronic comments can be submitted at regulations.gov. Written comments can be sent to: Dockets Management Staff (HFA-305), Food and Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, room 1061, Rockville, MD 20852
The direct final rule would be effective 135 days after the date of publication in the Federal Register.
If allowed to pass, the FDA’s edict will take effect on December 22nd, 2023.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
If you take anything away from this article, then please, take my advice, and remove these vegetable seed oils and PHOs PRONTO! These fats and seed oils are insanely bad for you and will wreck your health, and is easily one the biggest causes of disease today; save only perhaps compared to things like glyphosate and other pesticides, fluoride, chlorine, birth control in the water; EMF poisoning; or lack of sun.
The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
Proverbs 11:17
You WILL feel a thousand times better and be less sick if you remove these oils and fats from your diet and lifestyle. I can speak from personal experience.
Switch to pastured-raised butter, tallow, lard; expeller pressed extra virgin oil, coconut oil; and oils that are organic and expeller pressed.
But after killing people and spoiling generations, the FDA now is finally cracking down. However, do not expect the corporate interest groups like Bill Gates or Cargill, for example, to go away quietly. And even though, like always, the FDA will get lobbied to tweak the rules and labeling again, per usual.
Therefore you must be diligent to protect your health.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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did you see this ? Oxford council passed this already and will come in full effect as of 2024.
the division of cities and no one can travel freely to other cities without a permit and its limited to 100 passes per year. they will keep peoples lockdown in their own cities and cant go anywhere but 15 mins from their homes all in the name of climate change.
https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1609857873659691008
I plan to do an article on the 15-minute-cities at some point. People have no clue.