Burning sulphur
Text books of food science, and of food sanitation, will give accounts of
the many uses of sulphites in food processing. Fernando though asked
specifically about use of fumes from burning of sulphur. Burning of sulphur
has long been, and is, used to fumigate spaces such as greenhouses,
warehouses, rooms, wine cellars, wine casks, to kill insects and moulds. The
sulphur is burned as "sulphur candles", but I do not know the composition of
a candle. They are available, in Britain anyway, in garden sundries shops.
Peter Howgate
----- Original Message -----
From: Fernando Garcia Carreño <fgarcia@cibnor.mx>
To: seafood <seafood@ucdavis.edu>; Raul Castillo <thepointins@hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 3:10 PM
Subject: hello
Does somebody know about the use of fumes from burned sulfur to process
food? Word says that it is used to bleach plant products. Besides fungicide,
is that possible? I would appreciate any information about the subject.
have a Gday
Fernando Luis García-Carreño.
PhD. ITC. SNI2. AMC
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