Today’s interesting fact has to do with Bone China,
Many people like the porcelain that is bone china.
The fact that is is so white and translucent coupled with the high mechanical strength and chip resistance makes it very popular.
The strength means that it can be made much thinner than other china.
But what a lot of people don't know is that the name describes what it is made from, with more than 30% made from phosphate and calcium phosphate from animal bones.
The traditional method of making it requires 50% bone ash in the preparation and to keep the iron content down, most is derived from cattle bones.
Showing posts with label Cattle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cattle. Show all posts
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Today’s interesting fact has to do with Tallow.
Tallow usually a rendered form of beef and mutton fat, although commercial tallows can also contain other animals fats such as lard from pigs, fat from deer or plant fats.
Tallow is used in making soaps, detergents, fabric softeners, cosmetics, medical preparations and a myriad of other products.
Many people such as Vegans or Vegetarians, find it important to know if animal extracts have been used in making the products they use, and others such as Muslims or Jews find it important to know if a product may contain pig lard in order to comply with their religious dietary laws.
One way to tell if a product contains tallow is if the name of the ingredient contains the letters tallo in it.
While in no way complete following list contains examples of known tallow derived ingredients:
Dihydrogenated Tallow Benzylmoniumchloride, Dihydrogenated Tallow Methylamine, Dihydrogenated Tallow Phthalate, Dihydroxyethyl Tallow Amine Oxide, Dimethyl Hydrogenated Tallowamine, Dimethyl Tallowamine, Disodium Hydrogenated TallowGlutamate, Disodium Tallamido Mea-Sulfosuccinate, Disodium Tallowaminodipropionate, Ditallowdimonium Chloride, Hydrogenated Animal Glyceride, Hydrogenated Ditallow Amine, Hydrogenated Tallow Acid, Hydrogenated Tallow Betaine, Hydrogenated Tallow Glyceride, Isopropyl Tallowatelsopropyl Lanolate, PEG-13 Hydrogenated Tallow Amide, PEG-15 Tallow Polyamine, PEG-20 Tallowate, PEG-28 Glyceryl Tallowate, PEG-3 Tallow Aminopropylamine, PEG-10 Tallow Aminopropylamine, PEG-15 Tallow Aminopropylamine, Potassium Tallowate, Sodium Hydrogenated Tallow Glutamate, Sodium TAllow Sulfate, Sodium Tallowate, Sodium Tallowate, Tallow, Tallow Acid, Tallow Amide, Tallow Amidopropylamine Oxide. Tallow Amine, Tallow Amine Oxide, Tallow Glycerides, Tallow Hydroxyethal Imidazoline, Tallow Imidazoline, Tallow Trimonium Chloride, Talloweth-6, Tallowmide DEA and MEA, Tallowmidopropyl Hydroxysultaine, Tallowminopropylamine, or Tallowmphoacete.
The following ingredients that can be found in various product may have been extracted from Tallow: Palmitic acid, Stearic acid, Myristic acid, Oleic acid, Palmitoleic acid, Linoleic acid and Linolenic acid.
Tallow usually a rendered form of beef and mutton fat, although commercial tallows can also contain other animals fats such as lard from pigs, fat from deer or plant fats.
Tallow is used in making soaps, detergents, fabric softeners, cosmetics, medical preparations and a myriad of other products.
Many people such as Vegans or Vegetarians, find it important to know if animal extracts have been used in making the products they use, and others such as Muslims or Jews find it important to know if a product may contain pig lard in order to comply with their religious dietary laws.
One way to tell if a product contains tallow is if the name of the ingredient contains the letters tallo in it.
While in no way complete following list contains examples of known tallow derived ingredients:
Dihydrogenated Tallow Benzylmoniumchloride, Dihydrogenated Tallow Methylamine, Dihydrogenated Tallow Phthalate, Dihydroxyethyl Tallow Amine Oxide, Dimethyl Hydrogenated Tallowamine, Dimethyl Tallowamine, Disodium Hydrogenated TallowGlutamate, Disodium Tallamido Mea-Sulfosuccinate, Disodium Tallowaminodipropionate, Ditallowdimonium Chloride, Hydrogenated Animal Glyceride, Hydrogenated Ditallow Amine, Hydrogenated Tallow Acid, Hydrogenated Tallow Betaine, Hydrogenated Tallow Glyceride, Isopropyl Tallowatelsopropyl Lanolate, PEG-13 Hydrogenated Tallow Amide, PEG-15 Tallow Polyamine, PEG-20 Tallowate, PEG-28 Glyceryl Tallowate, PEG-3 Tallow Aminopropylamine, PEG-10 Tallow Aminopropylamine, PEG-15 Tallow Aminopropylamine, Potassium Tallowate, Sodium Hydrogenated Tallow Glutamate, Sodium TAllow Sulfate, Sodium Tallowate, Sodium Tallowate, Tallow, Tallow Acid, Tallow Amide, Tallow Amidopropylamine Oxide. Tallow Amine, Tallow Amine Oxide, Tallow Glycerides, Tallow Hydroxyethal Imidazoline, Tallow Imidazoline, Tallow Trimonium Chloride, Talloweth-6, Tallowmide DEA and MEA, Tallowmidopropyl Hydroxysultaine, Tallowminopropylamine, or Tallowmphoacete.
The following ingredients that can be found in various product may have been extracted from Tallow: Palmitic acid, Stearic acid, Myristic acid, Oleic acid, Palmitoleic acid, Linoleic acid and Linolenic acid.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Today’s interesting fact has to do with Medicine and Zoonoses.
We often think of the possibility of humans catching diseases from animals, pets, domesticated or wild.
Go anywhere these days and you will hear Mothers telling their children to not touch an animal because they could catch something.
A disease that transfers to humans from animals is a zoonose.
Flu, Rabies, SARS, Salmonella, toxoplasmosis and HIV are a few of the diseases that have regularly made the transition from animal to human.
Bovine tuberculosis is another disease that can sometimes infect people through their milk.
Herds that have been identified as having TB have been culled to prevent this from occurring.
It is often thought that TB crossed from Cattle to Humans when they were fist domesticated.
However, gene sequencing has shown that the TB that infects cattle originally came from the humans; their TB is a descendant of ours.
Researchers thought that that armadillos would be good subjects to test leprosy treatments on, because of their low body temperature.
When researchers realised that wild armadillos carried leprosy, it was suggested that it had always existed in the new world, and had not been imported from the old world by European settlers as originally thought.
Alerts recently went out asking people to not touch or interact with the animals.
But gene sequencing has shown that the leprosy infecting wild armadillos actually had crossed over very recently from humans and has not had the chance to mutate into a new separate species of bacteria, so it looks like the European settlers did bring it with them.
We often think of the possibility of humans catching diseases from animals, pets, domesticated or wild.
Go anywhere these days and you will hear Mothers telling their children to not touch an animal because they could catch something.
A disease that transfers to humans from animals is a zoonose.
Flu, Rabies, SARS, Salmonella, toxoplasmosis and HIV are a few of the diseases that have regularly made the transition from animal to human.
Bovine tuberculosis is another disease that can sometimes infect people through their milk.
Herds that have been identified as having TB have been culled to prevent this from occurring.
It is often thought that TB crossed from Cattle to Humans when they were fist domesticated.
However, gene sequencing has shown that the TB that infects cattle originally came from the humans; their TB is a descendant of ours.
Researchers thought that that armadillos would be good subjects to test leprosy treatments on, because of their low body temperature.
When researchers realised that wild armadillos carried leprosy, it was suggested that it had always existed in the new world, and had not been imported from the old world by European settlers as originally thought.
Alerts recently went out asking people to not touch or interact with the animals.
But gene sequencing has shown that the leprosy infecting wild armadillos actually had crossed over very recently from humans and has not had the chance to mutate into a new separate species of bacteria, so it looks like the European settlers did bring it with them.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)