I'm one of those guys who reads the
fine print and wonders. Though I'm not bold enough to read the "terms and
conditions" of every modern service I use. One person figured out it would
take 180 hours, or one month of a typical person's life every year. Not sure if
that was slow or fast readers. Or if comprehension was included.
If you're interested in hearing
about that reading, check out a movie called "Terms and Conditions May
Apply." In order to avoid YouTube copyright restrictions, the Spanish
version is on the web. But it's in English.
Some irony in there somewhere.
Anyhow, my latest foray into fine
print perusal was the back of a allergy medication bottle. The inactive ingredients
got my attention. What my drugs are packaged with always amazes me. Mostly
because nothing is truly inactive.
One of the inactive ingredients was
pregelatinized starch.
Post-gelatinized starch is somehow better or
worse? Gelatinized starch a hazard? Why not just call it starch?
The next inactive ingredient was
lactose monohydrate. Which sounds like wet milk sugar. Or at least milk sugar
with an added water molecule. Safe, I suppose, I have no lactose intolerance.
It would be bad to take an allergy pill that triggered an allergy.
The final inactive ingredient was
magnesium stearate. Stearate is a nice way of say fat. Crayons are
substantially stearate. Which comes from stearic acid, which comes from animal
tallow. Magnesium stearate is in the pills as a lubricant. Not for me but so
the pills don't stick to the machines that spit them out.
Tallow huh. So if I'm a lactose
intolerant vegan, so far the allergy pills don't look so hot.
Bonus, some science also indicates magnesium
stearate suppresses T-Cells.
Inactive indeed. Terms and
conditions may not apply.
America, ya gotta love it.
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