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There are a great many foods and products that pregnant women are urged to avoid that are considered safe for the general population. 


4-methylcyclohexanemethanol, not 4-methylcyclohexane. Huge difference there. You would check to make sure the facts of a story are correct; why wouldn't you check your chemistry? Such reckless ignorance of very simple chemistry is exactly why we as a nation are afraid of science and chemistry in particular. Educate yourself, and as soon as you know the difference between methylcyclohexane and 4-methylcyclohexanemethanol and the significance of that difference, change it on the article.


@TimRobinsonAus Methylcyclohexane is a 6-carbon ring with an additional carbon (a methyl group) attached to one of the carbons in place of a hydrogen. 4-methylcyclohexanemethanol is the same as that, except the carbon opposite from the one with the methyl group has one of its hydrogens replaced with a carbon bonded to an oxygen, which is then bonded to a hydrogen (a methanol group). Methylcyclohexane is not particularly dangerous. Methylcyclohexanemethanol is rather dangerous. They are separate chemicals. They are as different from each other as antifreeze is to water.