Good input.  Progress.

And to tease some of us -  here is what happened to us in the early '60's.
My mothers sister, bless here heart, heard of shipping in popcorn.
She packaged up a box of cookies with - yes un-popped corn - and mailed
it at the post office.  It traveled several thousands of miles to us in
El Paso.

When mom opened the box - it was cookie crumbs and popcorn.
We popped the corn and enjoyed the present.

As we age, we must remember to pop the corn if we ship with it!

Martin

Leslie Allen Crnkovic wrote:
> Bert,
> Thanks for the info. Since I am frequently exposed to it or products made
> with it or Perlite (an obsidian), I was unaware of any asbestos issues with
> vermiculite, so I did a little homework.
>
> "Vermiculite is a 2:1 clay. ... Not all vermiculite contains asbestos,
> [although] some products were made with vermiculite that contained asbestos
> until the early 1990's. ... Pure vermiculite does not contain asbestos and
> is non-toxic."
>                         -- Excerpted from Wikipedia --
>
> Good to know the more recent products I have been exposed to are now
> asbestos free... but it makes me wonder about my past exposures, including
> many other hard-core asbestos exposures over a 20 year period of time.
> Les
>
>
>

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