@Jolter
Absolutely correct Jolter Monster Oil is marked aspiration hazard.
The problem is health and safety has decreed that all products must be marked aspiration hazard even if there is no evidence that there is a hazard.
This is a legal issue to guard against litigation.
For example disinfectant that kills 100% of germs has to be labelled kills 99% of germs.
No manufacturer is allowed to claim that a disinfectant kills 100% of germs. However a disinfectant that does not kill 100% of germs is useless. They all kill 100% but they are required to say they dont.
Industry is often forced to make ridiculous claims of risk where risk is simply not there, to satisfy ill conceived legislation and by doing so remove threats that simply dont exist.
Tea cozys for example those are the fabric insulators placed over and around tea pots and coffee pots
In 2001, a government report in the UK found that tea cozies were responsible for about 40 emergency hospital treatments each year. The report also found that accidents involving tea cozies had doubled in recent years.
I cannot find any numbers of aspiration hazard from light oils. I can only find 46 cases of inhilation of oil following major oil spills.
A conclusion we can draw is tea cozys carry a similar risk to aspiration or inhilation risk following all global oil spills.
The risk is so slight as to carry no records of any suffering of this risk.
Water carries an aspiration hazard. There are many cases of drowning each year. Water however has not come under scrutiny by the legislators yet.
235,000 people drown every year. This suggests a trumpet player is 235,000 times more likely to die from using water as they are from using valve oil.
Additionally RV's carry a warning to avoid leaving the drivers seat while driving the vehicle. This was following Grazinski V Winnebago when Grazinski left the driving seat to make a cup of coffee while driving at speed and the cruise control was on.
His argument was that it was not stated in the owners manual that drivers should not leave the wheel while driving at speed on the highway.
So yes there is a warning on all oils that an aspiration hazard exists. And it is there not because there is a hazard but because it is required by law for all oils to carry this warning.
It was in 2020 and 2021 that oil manufacturers were forced to place aspiration hazard warnings on their products. You may recall that many products changed their labeling at that time.
Before that time many products did not carry that warning. Does that mean they carried no hazard before 2020 or 2021. The warning was and is a legal requirement and is not due to any quantified risk. It is just the class of products that now require the warning.
For this reason we cannot assume there is a real aspiration hazard simply because it is marked as such.
As I said earlier I have not performed any testing on Monster oil caution is always recommended.
Apart from this very minor disagreement I heartily approve of and agree with your posts on this topic.
I would add that I have never suffered any ill effects of using copious amounts of oils on trumpet including within the lead pipe.
I have never seen any evidence in cases of musicians using valve oil.
I have seen cases of children drinking paraffin based valve oil and then suffering difficulties.
I would also agree that WD40 is in no way safe.
In fact WD means water displacement. This product displaces water and removes it from any surface it falls upon.
Water makes up 75% of the lungs, to place a water displacing product into the lungs is likely to lead to a swift death. I agree with you on this product and would go much further.
WD40 should not be allowed anywhere near the body in my opinion. It believe it is far more dangerous than any traditional valve oil.
Believing WD40 to be food safe is in my opinion similar to believing that my left foot is a pecan pie. But thats just me.
Its not a pecan pie.
