[Fwd: Re: airtight storage how?]

[Doug Yanega]

Paul Cherubini wrote:

>The "reports" of it's toxicity are reports about it's chronic (not
>acute) toxicity to rats injected with (or forced to breathe) near lethal
>daily doses for two consecutive years.[snip]
>My guess is that the museums you referred to that discontinued the use
>of Vapona strips did this in a knee-jerk reaction to the sensational
>publicity following the initial release of the older, flawed studies

Thanks very much for this info! I'll file this away in the archives, then,
though if you can provide a citation or two to the follow-up studies, this
would be a big help. I'll also pass it along to the collection managers in
the museums I referred to...

Peace,

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