Caffeine

[captpackrat]

The Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for Caffeine:

http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/C0165.htm



Nasty stuff, really.

Comments

[merik.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* Nasty stuff, indeed. As a chemist, I always have to laugh at some of the legally required but utterly nonsensical things that end up in MSDSs. I once came across an MSDS for a bottle of purified beach sand that was so full of potential health hazards that you wouldn't want to walk on a beach without a chemical hazmat suit on ;-)

[brown-wolf.livejournal.com]

I guess I have to wear a gas mask whenever I go to Starbucks now.

P.S.

[brown-wolf.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of the junk science experiment where a student actually convinced a lot of people to ban "di-hydrogen monoxide" due to its health and environmental hazards.

[drab-makyo.livejournal.com]

Righto. Keep in mind that the Therapeutic Index for caffeine is something like 720 or something, which means that 1/720th of a dose which is lethal to 50% of the population is considered standard. For something to be generally recognized as safe, it must have a TI of at least 100.

[mortonfox.livejournal.com]

Thankfully no cup of coffee will ever come close to containing 10gm of caffeine.

[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

No, but that's only a handful of caffeine tablets. Easy enough for kids to get into trouble with.

Though I don't think I've ever heard of anyone committing suicide by caffeine.