Chlorine -Reply; an silver

Ronald Nigh (danamex@mail.internet.com.mx)
Fri, 09 Oct 1998 19:57:59 -0500

Dear SANET
I received the following somehwat cryptic reply to my message on Cl vs
ozone for sprout treatment. Apparently it was not sent ot the list and may
be of interest as it seems to come from USDA.

To call silver a toxic heavy metal (i.e in the category of lead and
cadmium) I think is a bit of an exaggeration. Zinc is also a toxic metal,
according to dose. Are microdyn doses high enough to be concerned about?

>Return-Path: <TROGERS@ars.usda.gov>
>Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 17:08:10 -0700
>From: TED ROGERS <TROGERS@ars.usda.gov>
>To: danamex@mail.internet.com.mx
>Subject: Chlorine -Reply
>Content-Disposition: inline
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>ozone is being considered as a treatment for the sprout rinse water
>used during the grow out phase, CaCl202 (a 20,000 ppm solution, that is
>a 2% solution is what the 24c in CA covers and is what the request for a
>National Section 18 indicates) is the only thing that did not damage seeds
>and effect sprouting and did effect some disinfection of the seeds, I
>can't remember every thing that was tried but do remember H202 and
>NaClO were tried...
>
>
Ronald Nigh
Dana, A.C.
Mexico, D.F. & San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas
Tel. y FAX 525-666-73-66 (DF)
529-678-72-15 (Chiapas)
danamex@mail.internet.com.mx

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