ObM,

Yeah you are a bit but manufacturers do like to ham up the warnings, so it’s understandable.

I wouldn’t stress. They’re all so similar. The variations will need mostly proprietary differentiation nonsense.

The sodium carbonate might attack copper and aluminium at moderate concentrations. I suspect the concentration would be enough to do mild damage if you left it a long time (ever run an aluminium pot, ice cream scoop or kitchen gadget through a dishwasher? You get that crazed grey look). But the chemicals and the duration of the cleaning cycle wouldn’t give it enough time to do meaningful damage.

From a heath angle, the cleaning agents in these tablets are also reasonably mild (in the scheme of things). Probably better to err in the side of no serious chemical burns to customers’ throats (in case the cleaning cycle goes wrong). Sodium carbonate (washing soda) and sodium percarbonate are generally mild irritants - best if you don’t stick your eyeballs on genitals in a concentrate solution.

But they’re not particularly nasty compared to things like dishwasher tablets.

You’d detect the taste before you’d have issues.

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