Talk:Polysorbate

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"Safety

A study suggested that exposure to polysorbates was the cause of hypersensitive reactions in two patients.[1]"

Firstly, for this figure, i.e., "two patients," to have any meaning, we'd need to know the total number of patients in the study. If it was only three, well, two out of three is pretty damning.

Secondly, it's not stated here, but the ref is for Polysorbate 60 alone, which is significant and should be stated.

Thirdly, I tried looking up the reference myself to see how many were in the study, but, unless I'm doing something wrong (always a possibility), when I go to that site and search on Polysorbate 60, it says: "Health Studies: ***No information available in HSDB at this time***.

So, something definitely needs to be done with this section to make it useful AND accurate. I'd say remove it, but safety of common ingredients used in food and products which may be applied to the skin or inhaled is a serious concern. Zlama (talk) 08:45, 3 January 2012 (UTC)Reply

The section is realy not very good. I will read it later this month, but from the title it looks like a case studie which means that only obvious cases were studied without looking at the other patients.--Stone (talk) 09:19, 3 January 2012 (UTC)Reply

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