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Arthur T Knackerbracket [soylentnews.org] writes:

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Arthur T Knackerbracket has processed the following story [washingtonpost.com]:

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nears its three-week mark, repercussions are being felt around the world as the prices of oil [washingtonpost.com] and grain [washingtonpost.com] climb. But a less common consumer product has also become a hot commodity as the war raises fears of global nuclear conflict [washingtonpost.com]: potassium iodide.

Twenty tablets of ThyroSafe, whose active ingredient is potassium iodide, can fetch as much as $175 on eBay. ThyroSafe’s official distributor has stopped taking new orders from its website, and existing ones will see a delay in shipping, according to a statement [thyrosafe.com] last week. Of the four companies approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration [fda.gov] to sell the compound, also known as KI, at least one other [anbex.com] has sold out.

Demand has grown in Europe, too, prompting Belgium’s federal nuclear control agency to assure [fanc.fgov.be]the public on March 1 that the situation in Ukraine does not pose any danger to its residents and that there is no reason to buy or hoard supplies. Local media outlets have reported spikes in demand in Romania, Croatia, Poland and other countries.

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