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Antimicrobial
Silver and Food Products
With the recent outbreaks of deadly E. coli and
MRSA in foods, why isn’t antimicrobial silver being used more often in
food-related products such as food storage containers, food wrapping products and
food processing equipment?
Hi, Steve Barwick here, for www.TheSilverEdge.com...
In recent weeks we’ve seen massive outbreaks of
E. coli food poisoning throughout Europe, and now in the United States too.
In Europe, nearly 3,000 have been
sickened by the latest outbreak, and 30 people are dead.
Here in the U.S., 13 cases of E. coli infection, with one death
so far this past week.
What’s more, recent studies have demonstrated
that nearly 50% of all U.S. meat is contaminated
with MRSA, the drug-resistant strain of staph that now
kills more people in the U.S. than AIDS.
Yet, here in the U.S. and around the world, the
environmental bureaucrats are doing everything in their power to stop the use
of silver-based antimicrobials in food-related products and food processing
equipment…
…even though incorporating silver into
food-related products would dramatically reduce food-borne illness and disease,
and save millions of lives globally!
Many companies have wanted to use nanosilver,
for example, as a coating on food processing equipment to keep bacterial counts
down, or in food storage products to prevent food spoilage and dramatically
reduce bacterial contamination.
But they have met nothing but resistance from
the environmentalists.
There is even a silver-impregnated butcher
paper for wrapping meat, which would prevent the spread of dangerous pathogens
on meat products.
But the environmentalists have been trying to stop
that product from coming to market, too.
EPA Regulations Now Prevent the Public
From Knowing About Silver-Based Products
There have been a small handful of food-related
products utilizing antimicrobial silver that have actually made it to
market.
For example, some small plastic food storage
containers now have silver imbedded in the plastic, which keeps germs from spreading
too quickly in the food stored in these containers.
Some of these silver-impregnated plastic food
storage containers were sold by the well-known company, Sharper Image.
But Sharper Image quit carrying these products
because of new regulations from the EPA preventing them from mentioning the antimicrobial
silver in the product without registering them with the EPA and having to
perform millions of dollars worth of environmental impact studies first to
prove the products are "safe for the environment."
(Here’s where to get these nano-silver
impregnated food storage containers, before they’re taken off
the market completely.)
Daewoo Corporation, from Korea, has also come
out with a refrigerator that utilizes silver-impregnation on all inside contact
surfaces, in order to reduce food spoilage and bacterial contamination. But the product isn't selling well in the
U.S. due to all of the negative publicity from the environmentalists, and the new
regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
It's ridiculous, of course, but these are the
kinds of roadblocks innovative companies trying to use silver in food-related
products to help prevent food-borne illness and disease are running up against.
Worldwide Blockade Against Silver In Food
Products
The same thing is happening worldwide. For example, the German Federal
Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) has recently ruled that there's "no place for nanosilver
in consumer products such as foods."
The
German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment is essentially the German
equivalent of our Food and Drug Administration and Environmental Protection
Agency rolled into one. This German
institute is also heavily influenced by environmentalists.
In my recent article explaining
the environmental blockade against the use of silver-based antimicrobials in
food products, I decimate
the contention that silver is dangerous to the environment and therefore should
not be used in food, food storage, or food processing.
For many
decades now silver has been safely used in family and public swimming pools
here in the United States and around the world.
It
has also been used extensively in spas and hot tubs...in prescription medicines
like Silvadene cream...and it is also sold as an oral nutritional supplement in
the form of colloidal silver to tens of millions of people across North America
annually.
Indeed,
in Mexico a colloidal silver product called Microdyne is the #1 selling product
for decontaminating water and preventing water-borne bacteria from causing
bowel infections and diarrhea.
Yet problems
with these silver-based products are extremely
rare even though they are used
extensively by millions of people. And uncountable
cases of illness and disease are prevented or quickly healed, thanks largely to
the use of antimicrobial silver in these arenas.
Unfortunately,
the environmentalists are fighting tooth and nail to prevent silver from being
used in foods, food storage, food wrapping or food processing.
Even though
tens of millions of people are sickened every year by food-borne pathogens,
hundreds of thousands of lives are lost, and billions of dollars in unnecessary
health and medical costs are incurred...
...the
environmentalists doggedly cling to the mistaken notion that silver might
somehow harm the very environment it comes from in the first place – even to
the point of making up wild and
unsubstantiated charges against silver in order to scare the public away from using
it.
It's
a sad situation. But that's where things
stand right now.
Using Colloidal Silver
to Protect Your Family
Against Food-Borne
Illness and Disease
In
the meantime, you can be proactive by using colloidal silver to spray your
store bought fruits and vegetables before storing them in the fridge.
Many
people even use a simple colloidal silver-based
fruit and vegetable wash,
which you can make quickly and easily out of common kitchen products.
You
can also spray colloidal silver onto your kitchen cutting boards, countertops,
sinks, faucets and handles, etc. to help prevent the spread of dangerous
pathogens that can cause serious illness and disease.
(Spray
bottles for colloidal silver can be found at some of the sources listed in the
article at this link.)
And
of course, at the first sign of tummy troubles, many people start using
colloidal silver orally, right away, to nip the potential food poisoning in the
bud.
In a
future issue, I’ll write more extensively on this topic of antimicrobial silver
and food. Until then, I remain...
Yours for the
safe, sane and responsible use of
colloidal silver,
Steve
Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
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