Hi Terry, Thanks for posting this article. However ...
On Tue, 29 May 2001 09:20:23 -0400 (EDT), Terry Chamberlin <[email protected]> wrote: >The wide and rather uncontrolled use of silver >products may result in increased resistance, analogous >to the emergence of antibiotic- and other >biocide-resistant bacteria. Undermining the benefits >of these compounds would be unfortunate to the >clinical and hygienic uses that depend on the >microcidal properties of silver. This part really raises my level of concern. Since "conventional" antibiotics are everywhere (we get traces of them in much of the food we eat, especially meats and dairy products), the amount of silver being used isn't really a threat, comparatively. But, this paragraph could be used by pharmaceutical companies as a way of pushing the FDA to outlaw the use of silver in making CS (how they'd do that for home use would be a good question). -- Dean -- from (almost) Des Moines -- KB0ZDF -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
