Careful while buying WHITE SUGAR

WHITE SUGAR FOR KRSNA !! BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ARE BEING SOLD AS SUGAR: 

Sugar requires decolorizing. For this purpose, one of the three methods is used.

1)Bone char—often referred to as natural carbon—is widely used by the sugar industry as a decolorizing filter, which allows the sugar cane to achieve its desirable white color.
2) granular carbon
3) an ion-exchange system .

Now, what is bone char ? Bone char, also known as bone black, ivory black, animal charcoal, or abaiser, is a granular material produced by charring animal bones. To prevent the spread of mad-cow disease, the skull and spine are never used (hopefully).The bones are heated to high temperatures—in the range of 400 to 500 °C — in an oxygen-depleted atmosphere to control the quality of the product as related to its adsorption capacity.

Don’t be under an impression that brown sugar is free from bones. Many brown sugars are actually white sugar which has been coated with molasses. Brown sugar is created by adding molasses to refined sugar, so companies that use bone char in the production of their regular sugar also use it in the production of their brown sugar.

You thought confectioner’s sugar is safe ? Confectioner's sugar is made when refined sugar is mixed with cornstarch—this sugar made by these companies also involves the use of bone char.

Fructose - This may, but does not typically, involve a bone-char filter.

Supermarket brands of sugar obtain their sugar from several different refineries, making it impossible to know whether it has been filtered with bone char.

To avoid all bone-refined sugars,we recommend alternatives such as Sucanat and turbinado sugar, which are not filtered with bone char. Additionally, beet sugar—though normally refined—never involves the use of bone char. Beet sugar refineries never use a bone char filter in processing because this type of sugar does not require an extensive decolorising procedure. Beet sugar can be refined with a pressure lead filter and an ion exchange system. Also, traditional khaand, raw cane sugar, shakkar , jaggery, bee honey are safe. Or else, do check with your sugar company if the sugar is bone char free. It is safe and best to use refined sugar from companies that use modern techniques , eg. granular carbon filter or ion exchange system instead of bone char.

Good news is that modern refineries are using latest techniques instead of bone char. Here are the excerpts from a clarification confirmed by the DGM of company that manufactures TRUST brand sugar in India.
“Once upon a time bone charcoal was also used as a clarificant in sugarcane juice. Nowadays no one uses that method. Most of the sugar factories use sulphur and lime as clarificants. We being a sugar refinery don’t use sulphur also. We use phosphoric acid and lime and ion-exchange resins for clarification. None of these chemicals are have any animal origin. We don’t use any chemicals of animal origin anywhere in the process. We give a declaration to Pharma companies ,which is called a TSE/BSE certificate, confirming that we don’t use anything of animal origin in our process. “

So please be careful while buying sugar for Sri Krsna and those serving His devotees..