Hi Frank, sounds fair! However, could this kind of issue of plastic parts coming apart, not also occur in regular food processing machines, thus making vegetables, meat, baby food, you name it, contaminated and therefor unedible? Rolf

Frank wrote:
> On May 9, 7:58 am, "Rolf Wissmann" <RolfWissm...@t-online.de> wrote:
>> ... suggest chewing gum ...
>> 
>> Rita B. Flesh wrote:
>>> I love to eat polymers, because they are so tasty.
>> 
>>> Which polymers are edible???
> 
> Yo, Rolf.
> I remember this as a legitimate question a couple of times back when I
> was in Regulatory Affairs.
> My stock answer was that while the polymer may have FDA approval for
> food contact, we did not recommend eating them.
> Cases I remember where an extruder plastic part was coming apart and
> not discovered until after a lot of candy was made and feeding of
> scrap candy bars which may contain traces of wrappers to farm animals.
> Frank