I REFER to the letter “Safety standards for cooking gas cylinders” from the Consumers Association of Penang published in The Star on Aug 7 (online at bit.ly/star_gas). Accidents arising from the use of cooking gas often happen but most of the time they are due to inadequate knowledge of the users. Cooking gas, commonly known as liquefied petroleum gas or LPG, is a mixture of propane and butane gases. The gas is odourless but when it is produced as cooking gas, it is odourised with ethyl mercaptan at the refinery storage terminals. Basically, the company that fills LPG cylinders ensures they provide safe cooking gas cylinders to their consumers.
