Eating pho probably poses a more serious threat, since some unscrupulous merchants try to preserve perishable noodles with formaldehyde or boric acid.

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This seems pretty unlikely as long as they maintain enough boric acid concentration in the water that they are pouring on the fuel (into the vessels).

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Fracking fluids are believed to contain, in addition to water, benzene, ethylbenzene, formaldehyde, methanol, naphthalene, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, toluene, xylene, boric acid, hydrochloric acid, isopropanol, and diesel fuel.

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Earlier this year Pfizer executives were alerted to a batch of fake Lipitor when five patients saw their cholesterol skyrocket and to a counterfeit of the glaucoma drug Xalatan that contained mainly the antiseptic boric acid.

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The top government spokesman said TEPCO has begun new cooling operations to fill the reactor with sea water and pour in boric acid to prevent an occurrence of criticality, noting it may take several hours to inject water into the reactor.

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