[pct-l] Polarpure

[Jeffrey Olson]

My local outfitter here in Laramie Wyoming used this reason not to carry 
iodine tablets.

Jeff.

On 9/10/2018 10:40 AM, David Hough reading PCT-L wrote:
> By the way, you can't buy Polarpure any more.    For years it was
> packaged by a couple of local Sierra Club leaders, and had the great
> advantage that it had infinite shelf life under any and all environmental
> conditions, and no batteries required.    The only problem was that the
> cap liner eventually deteriorated and leaked.
>
> But the DEA noticed that elemental iodine, like practically every other
> chemical known to man, can be used to make meth.    So they told the
> Polarpure people they had to handle it as a controlled substance with
> extensive documentation about how much they bought, from whom, and who
> they sold it to, how much and when... it was just too much work for too
> little reward, so they gave up.
>
> https://www.mercurynews.com/2011/11/21/federal-agents-say-88-year-old-saratoga-mans-invention-is-being-used-by-meth-labs/
>
>
>
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