<story><title>CDC team studying East Palestine train derailment fell ill during investigation</title><url>https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/cdc-team-sick-east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cwkoss</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m really worried about the effects on the food supply chain.  The plume of chemical vapors covered a significant proportion this country&amp;#x27;s breadbasket.  Corn, wheat and soybean fields got sprinkled with carcinogens, they will be harvested, turned into flours and processed derivatives, and could end up in practically any processed food on grocery store shelves.&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have a reassuring reason why I shouldn&amp;#x27;t be worried about this?  Does the food industrial complex have controls to prevent chemically contaminated grain from getting into processed food supply chains?  Is there a reason to believe the government is regulating this competently?&lt;p&gt;I think I&amp;#x27;m going to try to avoid processed food and buy produce as locally as possible for a few years (which also has some other benefits anyways).  But, am I being overly paranoid?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>schiffern</author><text>&amp;gt; The plume of chemical vapors covered a significant proportion this country&amp;#x27;s breadbasket.&lt;p&gt;Does anybody have a scientific (not clickbait) citation for this?&lt;p&gt;The quick HYSPLIT plume simulation I ran[0] showed the plume crossing over New England on its way to the Atlantic. There is agriculture there, but I would hardly describe it as the nation&amp;#x27;s bread basket.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, there&amp;#x27;s a lot of contamination of the food supply from pesticides and soil-accumulating heavy metals in fertilizers. Buying local and organic food isn&amp;#x27;t paranoid, but it would be a mistake to over-attribute these pollution sources to the East Palestine incident.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ready.noaa.gov&amp;#x2F;hypub-bin&amp;#x2F;hyresults.pl?jobidno=28280&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ready.noaa.gov&amp;#x2F;hypub-bin&amp;#x2F;hyresults.pl?jobidno=28...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>CDC team studying East Palestine train derailment fell ill during investigation</title><url>https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/cdc-team-sick-east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cwkoss</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m really worried about the effects on the food supply chain.  The plume of chemical vapors covered a significant proportion this country&amp;#x27;s breadbasket.  Corn, wheat and soybean fields got sprinkled with carcinogens, they will be harvested, turned into flours and processed derivatives, and could end up in practically any processed food on grocery store shelves.&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have a reassuring reason why I shouldn&amp;#x27;t be worried about this?  Does the food industrial complex have controls to prevent chemically contaminated grain from getting into processed food supply chains?  Is there a reason to believe the government is regulating this competently?&lt;p&gt;I think I&amp;#x27;m going to try to avoid processed food and buy produce as locally as possible for a few years (which also has some other benefits anyways).  But, am I being overly paranoid?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chaxor</author><text>This is absolutely a phenomenal point.  I would be interested to know how one could test their own food and water at their house for a reasonable price.  I can&amp;#x27;t imagine that any regulation would actually catch this. Water is a &lt;i&gt;maybe&lt;/i&gt; (mostly they&amp;#x27;re concerned with other types of contaminates), but food is a concern for sure.</text></comment>