Re: peg degraded

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good one - will add to list - also, fluoride and pharmaceuticals in the water!! This is critical!!! Think of the hundreds of drug interactions we listed in petition.

Skuldelev ships treated with PEG 4000. Forthy years later, mw wasmeasured at 3900 indicating the polymer chain had not significantlydegraded in that time. (Viduka 2002)

I think I figured it out................if your PEG after being mixed starts to degrade, this is how it could becoming more absorbed and degrading into smaller molecules? (I've read; use immediately, don't let it sit)

wonder what effects the iron, chlorine, and other contaminants in our water have on it in different areas? What if certain vitamins and foods have an effect? What if they just can't detect the smaller molecules?

But perhaps the smaller moleculeswere getting absorbed by the wood or otherwise not available to bedetected? (Bilz et al 1994)

http://ellencarrlee.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/what-do-we-know-about-peg/