Jim V Brooks on thu 1 jan 04
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What.? ..Get into our system by breathing.???. You mean to tell me there
is still someone out there so careless as to mix glaze without the proper
mask/respirator? If so, then the cow isn't the only thing around that is MAD.
!!!! If all this mad cow bone ash thing bothers you, why not use the "man
made" bone ash and get on with your glaze making...
Jim in Denton
Susan Setley on thu 1 jan 04
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In a message dated 1/1/04 12:46:21 PM, satima@PACBELL.NET writes:
> Not that I use bone ash, but I read somewhere recently that the mad cow=20
> disease also is transfered by the cow's bone marrow and that to get rid of=
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> disease you had to take extra precautions like boil down the entore cow,=20
> evaporate the=A0 water and crush the remains into powder and then treat th=
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> like=A0 hazardous waste as the "prions" that cause the disease are virtual=
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> indestructable. Should there be some precautions taken when=A0 using bone=20=
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> Experts?? Sam in Dalyt City
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Don't eat the bone ash. You can only get the prions in your system by eating=
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Jim V Brooks on thu 1 jan 04
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the prions that cause this disease are protein-- and would be destroyed in
the heating process to produce bone ash. If you think they would not --
then consider how they would survive the glaze firings.. These are proteins
-- not water soluable --not absorbed thru the skin.. Relax people.. mix
your glazes .!!!!. Now is someone has a habit of eating bone ash then mayvbe..
just maybe you have a concern.. but if you eat bone ash yoiu have other
concerns alreay.
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