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Given that there are 1000 grams in one kilogram, and 1000 milligrams in one gram, it can be taken that parts per million
aka ppm is the same as mg/kg. (1000x1000=1,000,000)
Note that some are given as g/kg: these you must multiply by 1000 to make the units mg/kg ie, move the decimal point 3
spaces to the right.
Example, fluorine (the element is fluorine, fluoride is an ion of that element):
<0.1g/kg = <100mg/kg
(The < notation means either that the amount is always less than, or you have reached the limits of detection.)
Inasmuch as nobody is ever eating a kilo of salt, let's see what typical usage amounts to for the alleged 84 minerals the
stuff is said to supply.
If you are using 2 teaspoons/day, you are getting about 10grams, so divide the numbers by 100.
In this case, that would give fluorine at 1mg/d.
If you are talking about salting your dinner, one gram or so is typical, divide by 1000, so it would give 0.1mg/dinner.
It will be apparent that most of these give vanishingly small amounts of most of the trace elements, trace indeed! You can
likely find similar concentrations in random dust, or your backyard.
I submit that 84 elements is a marketing scam.
I will also point out that just as these amounts do not matter much for things you want, neither do they matter much for
things you think you do not want like fluorine.
FRM 22 Nov 2015
From: http://themeadow.com/pages/minerals-in-himalayan-pink-salt-spectral-analysis
Below is a spectral analysis of Himalayan pink salt as it is typically found. The list shows all the trace
minerals, electrolytes, and elements contained in Himalayan salt. Himalayan salt is a rock salt popular
among health food advocates who seek it for the nutritional value of its fairly abundant trace minerals.