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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • They probably do. Though, food industry metal detectors have to regularly be calibrated with check wands: plastic bars with very small embedded metal fragments designed to mimic possible contaminants like brush wire, oven conveyor pieces, etc.

    When I was QA at a food plant that used them, there were numerous problems with the metal detectors.

    1. Line operators were haphazardly trained on calibration and how fucking important it is to do it correctly and on time. Lots of operators rushed or skipped calibration and falsified the logs. The fact they were rushed, overworked, and underpaid didn’t help.
    2. The detectors had a high false-positive rate, leading to a “oh it’s probably nothing” attitude.
    3. Management didn’t want to spend ANY money on maintenance and upgrades that would have prevented metal contamination or decreased detection errors.

    To this day I still have a lot of anxiety eating factory food because of the nightmares I witnessed at that place…












  • yup, the aluminum basically acts as a mordant for the natural yellowish stain of sweat and its microbial metabolites

    best to skip antiperspirant when wearing white shirts. aluminum-free deodorant (there is no such thing as aluminum free antiperspirant, btw) can help mask BO but will not stop sweat. but if you like white shirts that’s probably a decent trade-off.

    zinc oxide is a decent deodorant ingredient that doesn’t prevent sweating but does slow down microbes that eat sweat and release odorous compounds

    avoid baking soda if you have sensitive skin as it can raise your skin pH to uncomfortable levels. ymmv