Guest guest Posted April 11, 2012 Report Share Posted April 11, 2012 Post number 2 I still don't think fresh water DE with " food grade " stuck on the label is worth any higher price. I don't have any problem with people using fresh water DE with a " food grade " label. The DE I use from California was formed in salt water, so what, it is millions of years old. The ocean and its salt is long gone. Bridges Keller, Texas In the woods & soils of the Cross Timbers 2012 zone 8a Dallas, Fort Worth area I'll believe corporations are people too, when Texas executes one. WE ARE THE 99 PERCENT! > > > The important difference is between the easy to find > swimming pool filter > > DE & the much harder to find raw natural DE. The > Natural DE is only > > commonly found with organic garden supplies or farm > supplies. > > > > Most farmers that stores grain uses 7 pounds of the right > kind of DE per ton > > of grain or the bugs get it. > > > > Swimming pool filter DE has been partially melted into > spheres that make a > > better filtering agent, yet melting it totally destroys > it as far as insect > > control. It also has changed 60 to 70% of its silica > into crystalline > > silica. The reason why a person sand blasting wears a > space suite. > > Crystalline silica behaves badly when in contact with > living cells. Look up > > Silicosis, a deadly lung disease caused by breathing > crystalline silica. > > The water going through a pool filter changes this back > to plain silica. > > > > Raw DE, AKA Diatomaceous Earth is called Earth because > it is. > > DE is strip mined just like its cousin sand. One of the > largest mines is > > in Lompoc CA about 125 miles north west of LA. > Mountains of it. Vandenberg > > Air Force Base sits on Diatomaceous Earth. Look below > at the google map of > > Lompoc. See all the hills that look like they have snow > on them. That isn't > > snow, its where they cut the top of the hills off to > mine DE. > > http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en & tab=wl & q=Lompoc%2C%20CA > > > > The difference between raw natural DE & raw natural > " Food Grade " DE is how > > its stored. After it is dug out & ground. After it > has been sifted & > > bagged. Food grade DE is stored inside. Other than > that, food grade is > > totally a marketing word here. As in exactly the same. > > > > On the good side. Swimming pool filter DE (the bad > stuff) will never say > > Food grade. > > > > Although the real key words to tell you that you have > the right stuff is > > " Diatomaceous Earth - Amorphous " or " amorphous silica " . > That is what the > > mine calls it & how they label the bags. > > > > The correct bag should ALWAYS say less than 1% > Crystalline Silica on it. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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