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Default sanitizing plastic rubbemaid containers

On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:27:25 -0700, Zilbandy
> wrote:

>On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:23:18 -0400, Boron Elgar
> wrote:
>
>>In this case, her lab figures are not incorrect. You might want to
>>google a bit before you disagree. I have found several sites that
>>recommend what she said.
>>
>>http://www.hoslink.com/sterilisation.htm
>># Chlorine Compounds: Sodium hypochlorite solution 1 (liquid bleach)
>>100-10,000 ppm (.01-1%) free chlorine
>># 10-60 minutes (>= 3,000 ppm for broad spectrum)
>>
>>It then explains:
>>a 1/10 dilution of 5.25% bleach provides 5,25ppm available chlorine...
>>
>>...that is the midrange of their ppm recommendations

>
>Wow, I guess that's the difference between sanitizing and sterilizing.
>I think you meant to type 5,250ppm, though.



Yup...I had backspaced over some cut and pasted material trying to get
it sensible. Only made it worse.

Boron