I never wanted to make a difference
I just wanted to make animated gifs.
and accidentally found out that cellulose is apparently much more digestible than you would think given the common wisdom that it's indigestible:
still no word about whether PLA is digestible so I'm almost tempted to 3D print a little pill and swallow it
if you 3D print a pill out of PLA to test its digestibility, would that make it
BAD FOR HEALTH
GOOD FOR EDUCATION
you will certainly not regret eating a 3D-printed pill of PLA
even if PLA is digestible, consider that what is used to colour the PLA may not be good for you
PLA is digestible, but on its path to printing it goes through some real bad materials, most likely including a lead-infused brass nozzle. Also as previously noted, some nasty colourants. That said, there are food-safe PLAs, and food-safe printers.
I hear a lot about PLA prints not being food safe. So if they're not safe I guess that just means they're food
PLA comes from plants so it’s rated for food safety on paper but since nobody can actually review the pla you had or the quantity of germs trapped between the layers of your print, they don’t recommend it typically! I checked recently cos we did cookie cutters for Xmas
PLA is used for some types of implantable structures that are meant to dissolve away over time. It's PolyLactic Acid, and the machinery in your body that removes lactic acid can handle PLA too.
The bigger concern is probably all the bits that aren't PLA in a typical injection molded part/printer filament.
Oops this was meant as a reply to @vogon's post but computers are hard.
