Oxalic acid in human body

[pdmattox]

chemicals or naturally ocuring organic compounds like OA and Thymol?

[Kathyp]

Hey kathyp super bee do you treat your bees with chemicals?

no more than i need to and not without consideration for consequences.

a reverence for all things natural is misplaced worship.  go visit some places that do not have access to our "chemicals" and tell me that you wish to live that way. 

[Finsky]

Hey kathyp super bee do you treat your bees with chemicals?
kirko

More important Do you treat yourself with chemicals? "Pure" water, soap, tooth paste, hair color, sweat preventer, alcohol, coca-cola, salt, sugar, allowed ingredient, cotton clothes, paint your walls......

If your child has louses in his/her head, do you use chemical on your child to get rid off louses or do you let nature handle the case or do you cutchild hairs and wash the head wit pure water?

In my city pure drinking water has 16 added chemicals. You you know how much your drinking water has?


Scottish Government's 
List of Approved Products and Processes December 2003 in drinking water production

1.    FLOCCULANTS AND COAGULANTS

1.A. Products based on tannin

The dose used must not exceed 10 mg l
-1 of active material.

GE Betz Ltd
Klaraid PC 4000

1.B. Products based on aluminium

Kemira Chemicals (UK) Ltd
PAX-XL60S

Kemira Kemi UK Ltd
PAX-XL60

PAX-XL610

1.C. Products based on aluminium and iron

Clinty Chemicals Ltd

Ferric Aluminium Sulfate

Kemira Chemicals (UK) Ltd

AVL
1
AVR
1
1For these products the dose must not exceed 150 mg l
-1 of the product as supplied.

Kemira Kemi AB

Kemira AVR

1.D. Products based on iron

GEH Wasserchemie Gmbh

GEH ferric hydroxide

High Chemicals (UK) Ltd

Econofloc 15

1.E. Products based on bentonite

Chemviron Carbon
Coagulant Aid 25

Coagulant Aid 35

Steetley Minerals Limited

Berkbent CE

2.    ADSORBENTS

Bayer AG+
Bayoxide E33

Purolite International Ltd
Macronet - MN200

For this product the following condition applies:

The contact bed containing the product must be adequately backwashed in accordance with the Instructions for Use document and then rinsed with 5 bed volumes of water passed downflow to waste.

Brimac Carbon services Ltd
Brimac Bone Charcoal

For this product the following condition applies:

The contact bed containing the product must be adequately back-washed (until backwash water is clear of fines) to remove any readily leachable materials beforeconnection to the supply.

3. ION EXCHANGE RESINS SYSTEMS

3.A. Ion Exchange Resins

Purolite International Ltd
Purolite A520E nitrate selective anion exchange resin

Rohm and Haas Ltd
IMAC HP 336

IMAC HP 555

3.B. Treatment Systems for Ion Exchange Resins

Ionex Ltd

Eliminate Process

4.    OTHER CHEMICALS

4.A. Stabilising agents and corrosion prevention agents

Singleton Birch Ltd
Hydrogel 20

Hydrogel 30

Hydrogel 40

Hydrogel 50

4.B. Gases for tracing leaks in water mains

BOC Ltd
Sulphur Hexafluoride

Sensitor AB

Hydrogen (H
2) Tracer Gas

4.C. Chemicals for flow meter calibration

Lithium salts

The use of lithium salts for meter calibration in water mains is acceptable providing that the maximum concentration of lithium in water supplied to consumers doesnot exceed 0.10 mg l
-1 at any time (the analytical method used for lithiumdetermination should have an accuracy better than 0.01 mg l
-1 at 0.10 mg l
-1)

5.    PRODUCTS FOR THE DISINFESTATION, DISINFECTION AND CLEANING OF WATERWORKS APPARATUS INCLUDING DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS

Note: There are now no approved disinfestation agents.

5.A. Cleaning agents for water treatment installations

Permission or consent for disposal of any wastewater generated to a sewer or watercourse must be obtained from Scottish Water or the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, as appropriate.

EPSCO Ltd

Carela RS 100

Permacare - Membrane Separations Group

Resintreat

5. B Products for use in Seawater Desalination by evaporation

SNF Floerger
Dispersant No.6 ATC

6.   DISINFECTANTS FOR EMERGENCY USE

Products based on silver

Land & Marine Environmental Ltd

Sanicil 100

ROAM chemie NV
Huwa-San TR50

Huwa-San TR5

Tiosan

Swissteril International 5755 Ltd
Sanosil Super 25

Steril

For products in this section the following conditions apply:

(i) the dose of product is such that the concentration of silver in the water does not exceed 80 m g l
-1; and

(ii) Consumers are exposed to water containing silver for only as long as is required to restore conventional treatment, or for no more than 90 days in anyperiod of a year, whichever is applicable.

7.   PRODUCTS BASED ON TRADITIONAL CHEMICALS

Most of traditional chemicals are now covered by BS EN Standards (see annex 1.6). The following are not covered by a specific BS EN and are considered by the Committee to be unobjectionable on health grounds for the treatment of water.

For products and chemicals in this section the following general condition applies:

The method of use and the purity of these products shall be such that, in the case of water for public supply, the water so treated meets the requirements of the Water Supply (Water Quality) (Scotland) Regulations 2001.

7.A. Traditional chemicals

Bentonite

Calcium chloride

Calcium sulfate

Ferrous chloride

Magnesium carbonate

Magnesium hydroxide

Magnesium oxide

Manganese dioxide

Magnetite

Sodium chloride

Sodium sulfate

Citric Acid (food grade), for use in cleaning of membranes

7.B. Sodium hypochlorite produced from the on-site electrolytic generation of chlorine

There is no BS EN currently available.

For products in section 7.A.1 the following condition also applies:

The concentration of chlorate should not exceed 0.7mg l
-1 (as chlorate) in the treated water.

Aztec Environmental Controls

Sodium hypochlorite generated by the ElectroCell Process

Electrocatalytic

Sodium hypochlorite generated by the Pacpuri system

Severn Trent Services

Clortec cell    

Wallace and Tiernan Ltd

Sodium hypochlorite generated by the OSEC system

Waterman Environmental Services Ltd

MIOX Electrolytic Sodium Hypochlorite Generators
.

[Cindi]

Finsky, now you are scaring me.  Have a wonderful and beautiful day, Cindi

I see "silver" mentioned in there.  Anyone use colloidal silver water?  Google that one.

[pdmattox]

Professor Finsky, that is a mouthfull. 

[NWIN Beekeeper]

[I see "silver" mentioned in there.  Anyone use colloidal silver water?  Google that one.]

Colloidal Silver doesn't negate any of the other nasty elements found in "pure" tap water.
And colloidal silver has a limited viable life - exposure to light quickly dimishes its positive properties.

It is the absolute best antiseptic (as it leaves no surviving bacteria to evolve to stronger strains).
I've even considered it in treating "Nosema" apis as it also works well as an anti-fungal.
Not to mention its cheaper to make than to buy Fumigil-B.

-Jeff

[Cindi]

We make our own colloidal silver water, keep it no longer than one month, in a brown bottle in a dark cupboard.  After one month, we discard and make a new batch.  We do not keep it anywhere near our microwave either.  They put "silver" in the eyes of babies when they are born to prevent disease, this has been done as long as I can even remember, when my little gals were born, that was a long time ago (hee, hee)  ;) :) :)

I have seen miracles with use of this water.  One that particularly comes to mind is the curing of our little pittbull of the parvo virus when he was a young dog.  Most puppies do not survive this virus, even with veterinary intervention, (which by the way is about $1,200, if the pup makes it).  Colloidal silver water no doubt saved this puppy's life, I saw positive results within a few hours of injesting this water, which was poured down his throat.  Powerful stuff.  I could cite many many instances, but I think many of you would be bored, as this would be telling a tale which has already been told.

Johnson & Johnson is even making a bandaid that has "silver" in it, yep, bringing back the remedies of old.

Long before refrigeration was around, this is heresay, people would put silver in their milk jugs to keep it safe for human consumption.  Have a wonderful and beautiful day, best of this great life we live.  Cindi

[Michael Bush]

"The leading cause of problems is solutions" --Severides Law

[Burl]

    The solution to a problem is often found within the problem itself .

                                                 Burls law

If you don't want to go somewhere in particular , then don't get on that bus.

                                               Yet another of Burl's laws

[Michael Bush]

>If you don't want to go somewhere in particular , then don't get on that bus.

I like it.

[kensfarm]

Wow Finsky.. you make me realize that I'm lucky my water just comes from a hole in the ground.  City water smells like bleach to me. 

[buzzbee]

Have that water from a hole in the ground analyzed and you might be surprised! :)

[Finsky]

Wow Finsky.. you make me realize that I'm lucky my water just comes from a hole in the ground.  City water smells like bleach to me. 

We have last spring competition between  bottled well waters  and the city water was here the test winner.

It depends how good is origin of city water. We have 120 km long tunnel from inland lake to capital city. Tunnel goes 30 - 100 meters under ground level . The lake itself is 120 km long and second biggest lake in Finland.

But in many towns in Finland raw water is bad. You may see that to make pure water is big job. Small towns are able to do top quality water in their small factories.
************

Here nature water is acid and it dilutes metall from water pipes. So pipe water is here pH 8 and in soil it is about pH 6.

Some families have got red hairs when they have not handled raw water with chalk.  :shock:

I take city water to my summer cottage for drinking.

.

[Finsky]

Chemical treatments make Resistant Mites and Weaker Bees.

This is true if you use Apistan. It is a fat soluble stuff.

When we use organic acids or thymol, they do not accumulate into wax.

Only harm is to avoid larva violations.

.

[Zoot]

Reinbeau,

Excellent book. I particularly enjoyed his analysis of the "organic" foods industry as a whole. An excellent companion is Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegitable, Miracle.

[reinbeau]

Reinbeau,

Excellent book. I particularly enjoyed his analysis of the "organic" foods industry as a whole.

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

An excellent companion is Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegitable, Miracle.

On order from Amazon, I think it'll be here next week (I've been meaning to read it since it came out).  She wrote one of my all time favorite fiction books, Prodigal Summer.  I can't wait to read this new one.