A friend of mine who is deep into conspiracies started sending me stuff on this company called Apeel all concerned about … pesticides? I don’t really have the time to watch all the videos and Instagram reels, so what is the issue with this company? Is it a legit concern or a crazy conspiracy? or something inbetween?
According to Snopes and Reuters (Reuters 2), it seems to be a bit more on the crazy conspiracy side.
According to the article, Apeel Sciences makes a product called “Edipeel”, which is an edible protective coating that’s meant to “help produce stay fresher for longer”. From the second Reuters article, Apeel is also the name of a surface cleaner concentrate manufactured by Evans Vanodine (EV), a different company based in the UK, but the identical names appear to have confused people, who think that surface cleaner is being sprayed on their food. Evidence for this seems to be a data safety sheet from EV about the Apeel surface cleaner concentrate that someone on Tiktok confused for being about the Edipeel product coating, and went viral.
The company has also been accused of using “toxic mono & diglycerides [sic]” (also with the suggestion that Apeel Sciences was founded by Bill Gates, which is not correct), which is disproven by the company itself, an expert Reuters consulted, and the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA), with the compounds being “generally recognized as safe” by the FDA. Those compounds are usually made when your body digests food, and the amount you’d eat with the coating is not significant enough to cause issues.
Summary
Likely conspiracy nonsense, either due to confusion between the produce coating Apeel Sciences makes, and the Apeel cleaner concentrate from a different company, or from misinformation surrounding the compounds the coating is made from, exacerbated by Apeel Sciences having received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation (and therefore being associated with them).
Thanks for that. I had a feeling it may have been more conspiracy focused than serious (but that was due to the source I’m getting the information from). I really appreciate your write up you rock!
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]
No such thing. Ask away!
!nostupidquestions is a community space dedicated to being helpful and answering each others’ questions on various topics.
Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All posts titles must include a question.
All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.
Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That’s it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it’s in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.
Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.
If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content. Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.
Unless included in our Whitelist for Bots, your bot will not be allowed to participate in this community. To have your bot whitelisted, please contact the moderators for a short review.
Partnered Communities
You can view our partnered communities list by following this link. To partner with our community and be included, you are free to message the moderators or comment on a pinned post.
Community Moderation
For inquiry on becoming a moderator of this community, you may comment on the pinned post of the time, or simply shoot a message to the current moderators.
Matrix Chat Room
To find & join our chat room, log into fluffychat.im(or any other matrix client) and put #nostupidquestions:matrix.org on the search bar.
Credits
Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!
According to Snopes and Reuters (Reuters 2), it seems to be a bit more on the crazy conspiracy side.
According to the article, Apeel Sciences makes a product called “Edipeel”, which is an edible protective coating that’s meant to “help produce stay fresher for longer”. From the second Reuters article, Apeel is also the name of a surface cleaner concentrate manufactured by Evans Vanodine (EV), a different company based in the UK, but the identical names appear to have confused people, who think that surface cleaner is being sprayed on their food. Evidence for this seems to be a data safety sheet from EV about the Apeel surface cleaner concentrate that someone on Tiktok confused for being about the Edipeel product coating, and went viral.
Since Apeel Sciences also received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation in 2012 and 2015, it appears to have also been folded into the Bill Gates conspiracies, with comments like “It’s Bill Gates way in exterminating the population simply because Covid didn’t work for him”.
The company has also been accused of using “toxic mono & diglycerides [sic]” (also with the suggestion that Apeel Sciences was founded by Bill Gates, which is not correct), which is disproven by the company itself, an expert Reuters consulted, and the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA), with the compounds being “generally recognized as safe” by the FDA. Those compounds are usually made when your body digests food, and the amount you’d eat with the coating is not significant enough to cause issues.
Summary
Likely conspiracy nonsense, either due to confusion between the produce coating Apeel Sciences makes, and the Apeel cleaner concentrate from a different company, or from misinformation surrounding the compounds the coating is made from, exacerbated by Apeel Sciences having received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation (and therefore being associated with them).
Thanks for that. I had a feeling it may have been more conspiracy focused than serious (but that was due to the source I’m getting the information from). I really appreciate your write up you rock!
Superbly summed up