They did this scare last year with shortages on anesthetics (epidural stuff). It's just the latest attempt 5o scare ppl out of getting pregs. Just my opinion.
No problem. Just leave some bread out in its plastic bag and wait for mold to develop. Feed it to the kids with some peanut butter to camouflage the taste.
(Sort of joking....)
What does penicillin mold on bread look like?
"Some Penicillium molds are used by people to purposefully flavor foods, such as blue cheese. Other species of Penicillium molds produce a molecule called penicillin, which is used as an antibiotic by people. Penicillium molds usually appear on bread in fuzzy white, gray or light blue patches."
The strains that we have are from the mold grown on a cantaloupe in the 1940s, so you can grab some cantaloupe if you're feeling like a traditionalist. Otherwise, a leftover crust of bread or the peel of some citrus fruit will do fine. The mold will start out gray, but as it develops will turn a bright blue-green. Once it gets started, cut the bread up into pieces and put it in a sterilized flask. (You can sterilize a flask by putting it in an oven at 315 degrees for an hour.) Incubate it in the flask for about a week at around seventy degrees.
Some people just stop there. Folk recipes for "penicillin tea" or "penicillin soup" abound, with people just boiling up the molded bread or adding the citrus to tea with honey, and serving it to sick people. (Note: Do not do this.)
If you want to get more involved, you can extract the penicillin by sterilizing yet another jar and, according to the experts, adding the following:
Into 500ml of cold tap water put 44.0 grams Lactose Monohydrate, 25.0 grams cornstarch, 3.0 grams sodium nitrate, 0.25 grams magnesium sulfate, 0.50 grams potassium phosphate mono, 2.75 grams glucose monohydrate, 0.044 grams zinc sulfate, 0.044 grams manganese sulfate. Then add enough cold tap water to make one liter. Use hydrochloric acid to adjust the pH to between 5.0 and 5.5.
Then you add the spores from the moldy bread. Another seven days incubation will leave the penicillin floating in the liquid portion of the results. A quick filter and you have penicillin.
Urgent Medical Disclaimer!
In theory, at least, you have penicillin. I must stress at this point that you should not use this homemade penicillin on any limb that you want to keep. Although you did probably get a lot of penicillium mold growing on the bread, you also got other molds. Even with the right kind of fungi growing, filtering out everything but the penicillin is difficult, and best left to the professionals. Molds make a lot of different things to kill bacteria, and many of them are harmful to humans. While there are plenty of survivalist websites that recommend clapping whatever grows on bread or citrus to your wound, and while that might even be an option sometimes after the world ends, there are better options right now, and you should take advantage of them. If you want to see how well you've done making penicillin, try growing a tray of bacteria and using the penicillin on that.
They did this scare last year with shortages on anesthetics (epidural stuff). It's just the latest attempt 5o scare ppl out of getting pregs. Just my opinion.
This….
Remember when the “fix” was to produce more? Ahh, good times.
No problem. Just leave some bread out in its plastic bag and wait for mold to develop. Feed it to the kids with some peanut butter to camouflage the taste.
(Sort of joking....)
What does penicillin mold on bread look like?
"Some Penicillium molds are used by people to purposefully flavor foods, such as blue cheese. Other species of Penicillium molds produce a molecule called penicillin, which is used as an antibiotic by people. Penicillium molds usually appear on bread in fuzzy white, gray or light blue patches."
And also...
How to Make Your Own Penicillin
The strains that we have are from the mold grown on a cantaloupe in the 1940s, so you can grab some cantaloupe if you're feeling like a traditionalist. Otherwise, a leftover crust of bread or the peel of some citrus fruit will do fine. The mold will start out gray, but as it develops will turn a bright blue-green. Once it gets started, cut the bread up into pieces and put it in a sterilized flask. (You can sterilize a flask by putting it in an oven at 315 degrees for an hour.) Incubate it in the flask for about a week at around seventy degrees.
Some people just stop there. Folk recipes for "penicillin tea" or "penicillin soup" abound, with people just boiling up the molded bread or adding the citrus to tea with honey, and serving it to sick people. (Note: Do not do this.)
If you want to get more involved, you can extract the penicillin by sterilizing yet another jar and, according to the experts, adding the following:
Into 500ml of cold tap water put 44.0 grams Lactose Monohydrate, 25.0 grams cornstarch, 3.0 grams sodium nitrate, 0.25 grams magnesium sulfate, 0.50 grams potassium phosphate mono, 2.75 grams glucose monohydrate, 0.044 grams zinc sulfate, 0.044 grams manganese sulfate. Then add enough cold tap water to make one liter. Use hydrochloric acid to adjust the pH to between 5.0 and 5.5.
Then you add the spores from the moldy bread. Another seven days incubation will leave the penicillin floating in the liquid portion of the results. A quick filter and you have penicillin.
Urgent Medical Disclaimer!
In theory, at least, you have penicillin. I must stress at this point that you should not use this homemade penicillin on any limb that you want to keep. Although you did probably get a lot of penicillium mold growing on the bread, you also got other molds. Even with the right kind of fungi growing, filtering out everything but the penicillin is difficult, and best left to the professionals. Molds make a lot of different things to kill bacteria, and many of them are harmful to humans. While there are plenty of survivalist websites that recommend clapping whatever grows on bread or citrus to your wound, and while that might even be an option sometimes after the world ends, there are better options right now, and you should take advantage of them. If you want to see how well you've done making penicillin, try growing a tray of bacteria and using the penicillin on that.
Source: https://gizmodo.com/in-case-of-apocalypse-heres-how-to-make-penicillin-in-1110902296
Don't do this... use oranges. Breads can have deadly molds
they are going after our kids in many ways.