Is PR food safe???

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Polyester resin will still emit styrene over the extant of the materials lifespan. So no it is not really very foodsafe. Alcohol will, as well as many other simple/lite solvents, soften and disolve fully cured/cross-linked polyester casting resins.

Peppermills are probably fine, but bowls that will be used with vegitable oil and vinagar, to eat cereal out of, I would pass, and definatly do not use it to feed the baby or your cat.



Polyurethane resins when they are fully crosslinked are considered foodsafe however, you rolls the dice, you takes your chances.
 
The thing is that "polyester resin" is a bit vague. Polyeter resins are generally made by condensing any one of a number of acids with any one of a number of alcohols and then cross-linking (I'm not sure, but I think we generally call this "catalysing") with any one of a number of agents.

So your "polyester resin" could be made from virtually anything. The US Code of Federal Regulations number 177.2420 gives a shortlist of the materials which may be used to produce food-grade resin, so I'm guessing that there are many which are not safe.

I'd guess we just don't know what "type" of PR we're using for pens.

I wouldn't do it. It tastes really odd if I suck my fingers after I've been writing with one of my pens.
 
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I wouldn't. Especially with wet foods or liquids.

As paranoid as we've gotten as a nation over the past few years thanks to the Chinese "accidental" ingredients, it's just not worth it if you're planning on gifting or selling it.
 
I sent inquiries to several of the PR companies about being food safe, all came back no. The main reason cited was they had no control of how it was mixed or what was used as color pigments.
 
bbuis said:
Why would anyone want to taste it? I think it's beautiful on a pen but that doesn't mean that I want to lick it.
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WHAT?! Did you never eat coal when you were a kid? Have you never tasted gasoline? Man, you are missing out!

I've often wondered, though, who was the first person to eat cheese, for example. Picture this: "Wow, there's that vat of cows milk I was looking for 3 months ago. Oh, look. It's all gone solid and it smells yeuck. Wonder what it tastes like?"

Who were all the brave souls who died testing to see if it was OKay to eat grass and stuff?
 
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