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story time on how i was slowly poisoning myself for weeks and had no idea. this started a few months ago. anytime i would cook i would notice that the food smelled and tasted like chemicals or Perfume or soap or something and I couldn't figure out what it was I convinced myself that I was smelling

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This new hand soap that I had got that I was smelling it on my hands and it was making my food Tastes like that because I was smelling it but this continued to happen every meal I would make just tasted like chemicals. So I started every time I would cook

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I ended up just throwing it away because the taste was so strong and then my stomach started hurting every time I would eat I would get nauseous afterwards and I was like what the fuck is going on and if I would open like a cabinet where my cups were

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Smelled like it's so strong or the drawer where my pots and pans were smelled like it's so strong but then i would ask other people do you smell it and they said no i was so confused i was soaking my dishes in vinegar i soaked them in baking soda i soaked them in dawn dish soap i was washing

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everything by hand it didn't help it still smelled and tasted like chemicals it was like a fucking horror movie it was on everything everything tasted like it everything smelled like it no matter what i did it wouldn't go away i felt like i was fucking losing my mind so one day i don't know what made me think to check

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I went on Costco's website where I got the dishwasher pods from and wouldn't you fucking know, I clicked on the reviews, there are dozens of reviews of people complaining about the same thing.

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And no, I can't say for 100% certainty that my stomach issues or whatever were from the dishwasher pods, but...

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It started right after I noticed all of this happening, and when I stopped using them and cleaned my dishes, my stomach issues went away, so...

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But that was the other thing. People in the reviews were saying that no matter what they did, that they couldn't get the smell and the taste off their dishes.

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People were saying they had to, like, throw all of their dishes away.

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I started using paper plates and plastic utensils for a long time, and eventually, after lots of Googling and reading other people's reviews, reviews. I basically had to take the dishwasher apart, wipe everything down, use citric acid powder. Anyways, it was a whole process. It wasn't just as simple as switching my dish

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detergent. It was even doing that, everything still tasted and smelled like it. So thankfully, I finally got it off of everything.

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But it was a fucking nightmare for weeks, and how the fuck are y'all still selling these?

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I was just so relieved when I read the reviews to finally have a fucking answer because I felt like I was going crazy.

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It was quite the fucking chit show for weeks.

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What she's talking about is the Costco dishwasher pods and these finishing pods.

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What's going on is that these pods contain this chemical.

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This chemical is not FDA approved for direct food contact.

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Yet it's being put in these dishwasher pods that obviously has direct contact with food.

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So it's causing people to get sick, it's an endocrine disruptor, which is not good.

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This chemical is also used in popular brands like Cascade, it's used in Costco, Kirkland brand.

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And the thing is that there are other brands like this one that don't use this chemical that achieve the same clean results.

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So why are we using this toxic chemical when you can definitely make pods without it?

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