Is calcium silicate legal?

[Guest guest]

It was in some salt that I ingested last week at my aunt's.

I couldn't find this ingredient in the illegal-legal list on the web.

And now that I am at home looking up the product, it has these ingredients, too:

Salt, Calcium Silicate (Anticaking Agent), Dextrose, Potassium Iodide, Sodium

Bicarbonate

http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=262475 & catid=52446

So...legal or not? I won't use this at home (I use Redmond's Real Salt) but I'd

like to know if I need to buy some salt for my aunt to use when she wants to

cook for me...

Thanks!!

Caroline

SCD since 1/7/10

UC/Crohn's since 1999

Remicade since 2008

[Guest guest]

At 08:43 PM 6/15/2010, you wrote:

So...legal or not? I won't use

this at home (I use Redmond's Real Salt) but I'd like to know if I need

to buy some salt for my aunt to use when she wants to cook for

me...

The tiny bit of dextrose in regular table salt is what keeps the iodide

in place. Elaine felt that getting adequate iodine was more important

that the tiny bit of dextrose.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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