Twenty-five years ago a woman here in Utah was mixing up batches of this stuff and started a multilevel marketing scheme and sold the pint or maybe quart bottles of this for $30, $10 to the highest level of distributers. She was selling it with all sorts of claims and was quickly shut down by the FDA.. I saw, smelled and tasted it. It smelled like bleach. It tasted like salty bleach. None of the people I know who tried it had any effectiveness at all.
It smells like bleach. It quacks like bleach. It is used as bleach.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_dioxide
In the laboratory, ClO2 is prepared by oxidation of
sodium chlorite:
Bleaching[edit]
Chlorine dioxide is sometimes used for
bleaching of wood pulp in combination with chlorine, but it is used alone in ECF (elemental chlorine-free) bleaching sequences. It is used at moderately acidic pH (3.5 to 6). The use of chlorine dioxide minimizes the amount of organochlorine compounds produced.
[12] Chlorine dioxide (ECF technology) currently is the most important bleaching method world wide. About 95% of all bleached Kraft pulp is made using chlorine dioxide in ECF bleaching sequences.
Chlorine dioxide also is used for control of
zebra and
quagga mussels in water intakes.
Chlorine dioxide also was shown to be effective in
bedbug eradication.
Chlorine dioxide is also used for the
bleaching of
flour.
2 NaClO2 + Cl2 → 2 ClO2 + 2 NaCl , salty bleach, as I tasted.
Chlorine dioxide is a
chemical compound with the formula ClO2. This yellowish-green
gas crystallizes as bright orange crystals at −59 °C. As one of several
oxides of chlorine, it is a potent and useful
oxidizing agent used in water treatment
and in bleaching.
Chlorine dioxide is toxic, hence limits on exposure to it are needed to ensure its safe use. The
United States Environmental Protection Agency has set a maximum level of 0.8 mg/L for chlorine dioxide in drinking water.
[27] The
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), an agency of the
United States Department of Labor, has set a 8 hour
permissible exposure limit of 0.1 ppm in air (0.3 milligrams per cubic meter (mg/m(3))) for people working with chlorine dioxide.
[28]
On July 30, 2010 and again on October 1, 2010, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), warned against the use of the product "Miracle Mineral Supplement" or "MMS", which when made up according to instructions produces chlorine dioxide. MMS has been marketed as a treatment for a variety of conditions, including HIV, cancer, and acne. The FDA warnings informed consumers that MMS can cause serious harm to health, and stated that it has received numerous reports of nausea, severe vomiting, and life-threatening low blood pressure caused by dehydration,[29][30] among other symptoms, such as diarrhea.