How toxic is industrial salt? (some food factories in Poland used it for sausages)

Salt will disslove slugs.

wormwood or tansy extract sprays are best for fighting slugs, beer traps also work well - looks like slugs are alcoholics; if you sprinkle soil with table salt often it will degrade it - most plants don't like too much sodium in the soil

I tried to use salt to get rid of weeds and a couple of tree stumps. I used salt pellets, the kind for softening water and the weeds grew thicker and stronger than ever! The stumps started growing branches with thick dark green leaves. It was like adding Epsom Salts to the friggin soil and I thought it would be a cheap solution to troublesome weeds!

there must have more more potassium and magnesium than sodium in these pellets perhaps even nitrogen - you were feeding the plants - sodium does not work like this - water softening stuff? - maybe phosphorus or zeolite (zeolites are potassium rich IIRC)

LOL, even at the best times, Poles tend to be more then a little hypochondriac, now almost entire nation is at arms. They are just furious.

Good point! Salt can mean so many things. I think 'sodium' when I see 'salt' but it could mean any electrolyte.

This is not a prejudice. It is just my personal taste. I tried out during the last 20 year almost everything what the polish kitchen offers and my result is, that the food is very boring (only few different herbs and spices are used), greasily and made by 2nd. choice raw materials. In general not very healthy.

That is why it is highlighted :) Just like the way people panic when they hear "industrial" for example :)

There is a lot of truth in that.

Here you go:

A laboratory has Concluded That gritting salt That ended up in food owing this criminal activity is fit for Human consumption Us Help Poland 's recent scandal salt.

newpolandexpress.pl/polish_news_story-4105-industrial_salt_poses_no_threat.php

the meat will probably end up in dog food. take note if you hear dogs dying suddenly.

Yes, GIS and Sanepid are really famous.
I had my own experiences this them:
We are involved in the production of diet supplements and I was very angry, that 50% of these offers (more than 1.500) at "allegro" was illegal. I sended a claim to GIS. The answer: " ... this offers are without a address, we cannot do something, but we have now your addres from your letter, we will make an inspection of your company ...".

The inspection-team came with 3 persons: one driver, one inspector for inspection and a 2nd inspector to observe inspector #1, that he will take no money.
And the inspector didn't had the smallest clue, what he should inspect in our company.

hanseat
What does your story have to do with this case?

PS
Have you heard that in Iceland they have a similar scandal with industrial salt?

This salt affair reminds me of food scandals in other countries. When I stayed in US in early 1990s, the Perrier mineral water was accused of contamination.

The company that made bottled mineral water chic is voluntarily recalling its entire inventory of Perrier from store shelves throughout the United States after tests showed the presence of the chemical benzene in a small sample of bottles.

The impurity was discovered in North Carolina by county officials who so prized the purity of Perrier that they used it as a standard in tests of other water supplies.

The company said the search for the source of contamination is focusing on the packaging and distribution process. Perrier is conducting an extensive internal investigation and is cooperating with Federal and state officials, the statement said.

Benzene, a natural component of crude oil, has been shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals and is believed to do the same in humans.

More: nytimes.com/1990/02/10/us/perrier-recalls-its-water-in-us-after-benzene-is-found-in-bottles.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

Gee, what do I do with the two jars of Polish sauerkraut that I have on the shelf?

it was regarding the post from Polsyr (new poland express....)

If you read that link, you wouldn't ask :-)

throw it away if you are cautious - if you are less cautious just gobble it :) - up for a bet? I bet you will be fine (unless the sauerkraut's gone bad)


there is so much benzene in the air in cities from motor engines and they panick about some odd trace amounts in a couple of bottles - but it's good they make tests (the more regular the better)

you could do what my dad does with his jar of sauerkraut, he leaves it in the cupboard all year and brings it out for Christmas dinner. Nobody eats it, so he puts it back in the cupboard for another year. (Sadly after about seven years his wife noticed the sell by date and chucked it)

I think I'll chuck it. Back to American for me as the only other alternative is Bavarian in my neck of the woods. But I do like sauerkraut.