Chlorine Dioxide at 1000 times the concentration used in its medicinal application can oxidise the colour from wood pulp, therefore people using it are swigging industrial bleach
Bagels are soaked in sodium hydroxide, lye, before baking to make the hard coating, therefore people who eat them are consuming drain cleaner.
Sodium bicaRbonate can be used to put out certain kinds of fires, so people who are eating pancakes are consuming fire extinguisher chemicals
Alcohol is the preferred solvent for shellac, as well as an engine fuel.'Nuff said.
The principle that the dose makes the poison is paramount. It means that all chemicals, from whatever source – human manufacture or natural – are potentially toxic at some dose. This fundamental concept underlies toxicology and is crucial to the assessment of risk from chemicals and their safe use. It is known as the dose-response relationship – it is the amount of the substance that causes it to be toxic, not the substance itself.
Paracelsus (1493–1541) said:
All substances are poisons; there is none that is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
