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TIL: Cardboard / gable top milk cartons are lined with... plastic. But they block ultraviolet light

Ultraviolet light can penetrate clear glass bottles (PDF) and HDPE (PDF) plastic bottles.

UV light degrades vitamins A and D and riboflavin.

*All of these packaging types are used for many other foods as well.

slate.com/technology/2011/03/s

Slate · Should I buy milk in glass, plastic, or cardboard containers? I'm baffled by all the choices there are when it comes to buying milk. How can the glandular secretions from a single ungulate arrive in so many...
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"Lara Anton, spokesperson for state health dept, said her office refused the shipment from HHS 'because healthcare providers have not requested it from us.' Kennedy also said that he believes budesonide, clarithromycin, or cod-liver oil can treat measles, but the health department apparently doesn’t want those either."

#measles #RFKJr #Texas #disinformation #medicine #VitaminA #CodLiverOil #quackery #nostrums #nonsense #vaccines
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"RFK Jr. told Fox earlier this month that he was delivering vitamin A to measles-stricken communities in West Texas immediately. But a Texas health official told The Atlantic that no doses of vitamin A ever arrived at the state health department—not because RFK Jr. broke his promise, but because Texas doctors didn’t want them."

~ Ron Filipkowski

#measles #RFKJr #Texas #disinformation #medicine #VitaminA #CodLiverOil #quackery #nostrums #nonsense #vaccines
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meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-

Meidas+ · This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 101By Ron Filipkowski

#Ivermectin was found to help #COVID patients...

patients with parasites

#Ignorance spread "the cure" without the whole picture

Likewise, #VitaminA was found to help #Measles patients...

patients with vitamin A deficiency

And so, ignorance once again:

"West #Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity as #medical #disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreak"

People think they know better than #scientists and #doctors, and harm themselves and their children

tpr.org/public-health/2025-03-

A sign is posted in German at the entrance of the children's emergency room at Covenant Children's Hospital, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas.
TPR · West Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity as medical disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreakBy David Martin Davies

So, as someone who used to work for a New Age newspaper back in the late 90's / early 2000's, I've seen my share of #NewAgeQuackery. And as someone who has looked at studies about #VitaminA and the immune system, and who has been tested for low levels and brought them up, and has seen the results firsthand... All I can say is VITAMIN A IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR AN #MMR SHOT! WTF! Especially with breakthrough cases! Get your shots updated! #MeaslesAreNoJoke and can cause real damage!

RFK Jr's HHS has hired fake doctor, huckster, and vaccine denier David Greer to study the long disproven link between vaccines and autism.

Greer has been disciplined for practicing medicine without a license. He has no medical degree or any kind of science degree that would qualify him to study this topic.

Meanwhile, numerous kids are arriving at Texas emergency rooms with liver damage from vitamin A overdoses their parents have given them in an antivax measles hysteria created by RFKJr, himself, who called on parents to give their kids the vitamin (which has no efficacy in preventing or curing measles), in lieu of the vaccine, (which provides 97% of recipients complete lifetime immunity from measles with virtually 0 risk of dangerous side effects, and 0 chance of Autism.)

cidrap.umn.edu/measles/dc-warn

CIDRAPDC warns of major measles exposure; HHS names Geier to study autism and vaccines
#hhs#rfkjr#vaccines

#VitaminA does not prevent #measles. In patients who are deficient—most aren't—*supervised* supplementation may help lessen the severity, and that's all. It's easy to overdose. The best protection is #vaccination.

Our brains keep us alive. Use yours.

yourlocalepidemiologist.substa

Your Local Epidemiologist · Vitamin A and Measles: What the data show (and how to talk about it)By Katelyn Jetelina

Don’t fall for this misleading myth about vitamin A and measles

Research does show that vitamin A can help children with deficiencies after they’re infected with measles, but the vast majority of children in the United States do not fall into that category. To suggest that vitamins, good nutrition or other remedies can prevent measles is misleading and dangerous. The immune system simply doesn’t work that way. #VitaminA #Measles
msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio

MSNBC · The measles vaccine is lifesaving. RFK Jr.'s vitamin A advice isn't.By Dr. Susan J. Kressly