Why do the environmentalists have such a dread fear of silver nano-particles?

Why do the environmentalists have such dread fear of silver nano-particles?

I’ve received a number of queries asking me why the radical environmentalists seem to be so fearful of products containing silver nano-particles, including colloidal silver, and do I think there is actually any truth to their assertions that products containing silver nano-particles could cause harm to the environment.

No Real Cause for Alarm

As I stated in my blog post of Feb. 25, titled "Colloidal Silver and NanoSilver: What's the Difference?" there is no reason whatsoever for these radical environmental groups to be involved in this issue.

There has never been any problem with colloidal silver and the environment, and there has never been a problem with so-called “nano-silver” and the environment.

So what's the real reason the radical environmentalists trying to force the Environmental Protection Agency to pull out all stops and regulate silver as a dangerous “pesticide”?

I’ll answer that question in just a minute. But first, let’s take a look at some of the reasons the environmentalists cite for regulating silver.

Environmentalists Claims v/s Reality

As I explain in the February 25th blog post, the environmentalists constantly bring up the case of the film manufacturing industry which produced a chemical silver compound known as silver halide as a byproduct of film processing and manufacturing.

Many years ago, members of the film industry illegally dumped a number of tons of that caustic chemical silver compound into San Francisco bay. Over time the clams at the bottom of the bay began to absorb the massive amounts of this illegally dumped chemical form of silver, and it caused them to quit breeding. That's about the only environmental "catastrophe" the environmentalists can point to, involving a form of silver.

Of course, the bay is fine today. The claims are doing fine, too. And there is basically no film industry any more (thanks largely to the advent of digital cameras).

What’s more, the EPA now regulates silver spills very carefully. Yet by the EPA’s own standards, silver entering the environment from outside sources has been demonstrated to be so safe that even spills as high as 1,000 gallons don’t need to be reported to the EPA.

Now, if you spill as little as three gallons of chlorine, you are supposed to report that to the EPA and have the cleanup handled by a HAZMAT crew. But 1,000 gallons of silver can be spilled, and it’s basically no big deal.

Isn’t that amazing? Yet the radical environmentalists would have you believe some poor guy in Bakersfield, California washing his diabetic foot stockings that have silver nano-particles embedded into the fabric, or some natural health proponent in Boise, Idaho spraying a little bit of colloidal silver into his kitchen sink to keep the microbial count down, is going to cause an environmental catastrophe.

No Real Chance of Harm

The bottom line is that the chances of any product containing tiny silver nano-particles causing harm to the environment is just about nil, because it would have to be introduced into a relatively closed environment (like a lake, or a bay) and literally tons of it would have to be dumped into the enclosed environment in a relatively short time in order to cause any harm.

But the radical environmentalists don’t care about the facts. They constantly cite, for example, the idea that certain types of clothing that now have tiny silver nano-particles embedded into the fabric in order to help prevent infection (such as the new diabetic foot stockings, designed to prevent diabetic ulcers from becoming infected) could allow silver particles to leach out into the environment when they are washed in the washing machine. This, they claim, has the potential to create an environmental crisis.

What they NEVER tell you, as I pointed out in more detail in the February 25th blog post, is that whenever silver nano-particles leach from products they are embedded in, such as diabetic foot stockings, or computer keyboards, or whatever, they almost immediately begin to bond (in a process called “agglomeration”) with salts, minerals and other substances in their immediate environment, forming larger particle agglomerates.

Thus, the tiny silver nano-particles completely lose their nano-scale properties, becoming essentially inert.

Ludicrous Assertions

What’s more, the likelihood of enough people washing enough concentrated loads of clothing containing silver nano-particles (remember, it would take literally tons of the little particles to contaminate an enclosed waterway), and having those silver particles end up in a single enclosed environment such as a lake or bay, is just about nil.

In fact, it is ludicrous to even think about it. But this is the kind of thing the environmentalists scream about. Apparently, the idea that even a single silver nano-particle might somehow find its way into the environment gives them nightmares. They have simply demonized silver nano-particles to the point you’d think we were talking about the ebola virus.

No Harm to Plant Life, Either

As for the idea that these tiny silver nano-particles might somehow harm plant life in the environment, there is simply no evidence silver ever has, or ever will, do so.

For example, wheat and other grains are chock full of tiny particles of silver. For some reason the grains absorb silver from the ground at a higher rate than other plants. Perhaps that why they’re so good for you. And of course, their relatively high silver content causes them no harm whatsoever.

My wife sprays colloidal silver directly onto her tomato plants during growing season in order to keep the tomato fungus off them. She gets big beautiful tomatoes every time. Similarly, she recently purchased a Goji berry tree off of e-Baythat developed a leaf fungus after it arrived. She quickly sprayed it with colloidal silver, and it completely recovered and is thriving.

So the shrill cries of the environmental groups about the so-called “dangers” of silver are absolutely ridiculous on all counts.

Who’s Paying Them to Conduct This Campaign Against Silver?

The radical environmental groups behind the drive to demonsize silver get the bulk of their funding, to the tune of millions of dollars a year, from donations from corporate and individual sponsors, as well as from government grants. Our best guess is that Big Pharma is funding them through one or more surreptitious pathways to pursue this avenue of silver regulation.

After all, who stands to benefit the most from restricting silver’s availability to the general public?

As I stated in the Feb. 25 blog post, it is Big Pharma (the major drug companies) who stand to gain the most:

"Big Phama failed to get colloidal silver banned by the FDA back in 1999, succeeding only in having the FDA ban the mention of silver’s powerful antibiotic qualities from product advertising and labeling.

Of course, that backfired on them. The FDA’s 1999 'Final Ruling' on colloidal silver only served to incense the public about bureaucratic meddling in their health care choices. As a direct result of the anger generated by the FDA’s 'Final Ruling,' more people today know about and regularly use colloidal silver than ever before.

So now they are trying to restrict colloidal silver by using paid shills within the environmental movement to promote the spurious idea that 'nanosilver is harmful to the environment.'”

Their Hypocrisy Points to Who They Are Working For

Isn’t it interesting that the environmentalists are making such an outcry against silver as a possible environmental pollutant, and yet they are saying absolutely NOTHING about the tons of pharmaceutical drugs that are poured into our nations waterways every year, to the point that those drugs are now turning up in the drinking water of 46 million Americans living in our major cities?

The fact that the radical environmental groups basically ignore a real problem (potentially dangerous drugs in the drinking water of 46 million U.S. homes) in order to focus so heavily on a fabricated problem (tiny particles off silver going back into the environment they originally came from) pretty much tells you who they are working for.

Simply use the process of deduction. They won’t go after the medical/pharmaceutical industry in order to stop tons of potentially dangerous drugs from being dumped into America’s drinking water sources. But they will go after products containing silver nano-particles, which the medical/pharmaceutical industry has a history of opposing.

As Sherlock Holmes would say, “It’s elementary, my dear Watson.”

Regards,
S. Spencer Jones

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Will the EPA actually ban products containing silver nano-particles?

Will the EPA actually ban products containing silver nano-particles?

Several people have written to say that the rabid environmental groups now suing EPA to regulate silver nano-particles are not really out to have them “banned,” but only regulated more stringently.

While we have never claimed the EPA is out to “ban” silver nano-particles, we have pointed out that what the environmental groups are demanding amounts to a de facto ban on products containing silver nano-particles, including colloidal silver.

Of course, the rabid environmental groups pushing the EPA to regulate silver nano-particles as a “pesticide” are very careful not to use the word “ban.” They know how what kind of opposition that word automatically stirs up.

Nevertheless, their petition demands the EPA remove all nano-silver products from the market, while the potential impact of those products on the environment are investigated.

That is a de facto ban.

Here, in their own words, is what the Center for Food Safety, Friends of the Earth and other environmental groups are “demanding” the EPA do in regards to nano-silver:

“The legal petition demands EPA assess the safety of these materials to the public and the environment before permitting commercialization. The petition also calls on the agency to require safety data from manufacturers and require mandatory and approved labeling. Finally, the petition calls on the agency to stop the sale of those nano-silver products currently on the market until the agency properly assesses their impacts.” [Emphasis mine. –ED]

This is quoted word-for-word directly from the most recent email sent by the Center for Food Safety on February 24, 2009 to all of its members worldwide.

Ban, Moratorium, Delay…What’s the Difference?

I think “stop the sale of those nano-silver products currently on the market” is pretty clear language, don’t you?

Call it a “ban,” or a “moratorium” or a “delay,” or call it whatever you want. What the rabid environmental groups are demanding from EPA is that they stop the sale of any product containing silver nano-particles, “until the agency properly assesses their impacts.”

Hmmm. How long would such an “assessment” take? Three months? Three years? Thirty years? It’s not stated. What is clearly stated is that the petition sponsors want all products containing silver nano-particles removed from the market until everybody’s happy that they aren’t going to harm some poor little minnow in some stream, somewhere on the face of God’s green earth.

3 Powerful Solutions

There are three powerful solutions to this problem:

Solution #1: If you are a colloidal silver user, you can obtain a relatively inexpensive colloidal silver generator from our good friends at http://www.thesilveredge.com/ and start making your own high-quality colloidal silver. Making high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver is quick, simple and easy. And once you own the means of colloidal silver production, you will have instant access to colloidal silver for the rest of your life. And there is nothing the environmentalists and bureaucrats can do about it.

Solution #2: You can teach yourself more about the use of colloidal silver for fighting infection and disease by obtaining an inexpensive copy of the brand new, 60-minute Colloidal Silver Secrets video, or the newly revised, 547-page Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual. By learning more now, any future action by the bureaucrats to eliminate public information on the powerful infection-fighting qualities of colloidal silver will have no effect on you.

Solution #3: You can oppose the environmentalist’s petition to have EPA regulate silver as a “pesticide” by writing the EPA, faxing the EPA, emailing the EPA and even posting your comments on the EPA’s online public comments system. NOTE: COMMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED BY EPA BEFORE THE NEW PUBLIC COMMENTS DEADLINE OF MARCH 20!

Remember, the EPA depends heavily upon public input in making their decisions. Whether they will cave in to the demands of the rabid environmentalists or not, depends largely upon whether or not you let your voice be heard.

Here’s the necessary contact information:

Post Your Comments: Go to the brand new EPA public comments page at this link (click here) and post your comments directly to the EPA web site. Explain why you do not want the EPA to regulate silver nanoparticles as “pesticides,” which would result in a de facto ban on all products containing silver nano-particles, including colloidal silver.

Email Your Comments: Email your comments opposing the petition to regulate silver particles as “pesticides” to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson. His email address is: johnson.stephen@epa.gov

Fax Your Comments: Fax your comments to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, at his Washington DC fax number: (202)-501-1450.

Write a Personal Letter: Send a personal letter to the Washington DC office of EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson. His address is as follows:

Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory
Public Docket (7502P)
ATTN: Administrator Stephen Johnson
Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20460-0001

Personal letters have more impact than any other method of communication with bureaucrats. So if you have the extra time, print out your comments, stick them in an envelope, and mail them to the EPA administrator at the address above.

Important Note: All comments to the EPA – whether you make them by email, fax, snail mail or through the public comments section of their web site -- must reference the “Petition for Rulemaking Requesting EPA Regulate Nanoscale Silver Products as Pesticides,” and must also reference the new Docket #: EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0650-0506. That way they know exactly what you are talking about.

Regards,
S. Spencer Jones

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Colloidal Silver and "NanoSilver": What's the Difference?

Colloidal Silver and “NanoSilver”: What’s the Difference?

In regards to the drive by several radical environmental groups to have the EPA regulate nanosilver as a “pesticide,” many readers have written to ask what’s the difference between colloidal silver and “nanosilver.”

The term "nano" simply refers to the size of the particles.

In order to incorporate silver into a variety of products, such as computer keyboards, or diabetic stockings, for examples, the particle size of the silver has to be greatly reduced, all of the way down to the “nano” level. (A nanometer is one billionth of a meter, which is about 1/100,000th the width of a human hair.)

Similarly, because of its superior effectiveness against pathogens, nano-scale silver is now widely used in colloidal silver products.

So when the radical environmentalists say they want to regulate "nanosilver," they are talking about ALL products that contain silver nano-particles, including colloidal silver.

That's why, in the addendum to their petition to the EPA, in which the environmentalists list 300 different products containing "nano" scale silver particles, they include the names of the top three brands of colloidal silver on the market today (i.e., Sovereign Silver, Meso-Silver and ASAP Silver), along with many lesser-known brands.

They also include numerous products such as soaps and toothpastes that have incorporated colloidal silver nano-particles into their make-up.

In other words, they want the EPA to regulate anything with tiny silver particles in it, again, including colloidal silver.

Why the Environmentalists Are So Fearful of Silver Nano-Particles

The stated reasoning of the environmentalists for regulating tiny silver particles is that over time, as more and more product manufacturers incorporate silver nano-particles into their products for the powerful anti-microbial qualities, these tiny silver particles could eventually make their way back into the environment.

Once in the environment, so the reasoning goes, these tiny nano-scale silver particles could potentially cause an ecological catastrophe, because their nano-scale properties make them extremely toxic to microbes and other tiny living creatures such as tadpoles and minnows.

According the environmentalists, these tiny silver particles might ultimately buildup to high enough levels in the environment to wipe out environmentally sensitive microorganisms or other living creatures that are essential to the ecology.

The environmentalists have NO evidence whatsoever for this contention, of course. In other words, there is at present literally ZERO evidence that silver nano-particles are causing any environment damage whatsoever.

In other words, it is pure conjecture on the part of the environmentalists. And that conjecture is essentially based upon a few paid university laboratory studies that were purposely skewed from the beginning to reach the pre-ordained conclusion that nano-silver can harm the environment because of its uniquely toxic properties to small living creatures.

Wild Conjectures from the Zebra Fish Study

What the environmentalists did is this: They began with the premise that articles of clothing that have silver nano-particles embedded in the fabric could release those silver nano-particles into the environment when washed in a washing machine. And those released silver nano-particles might in turn begin to harm "environmentally sensitive" microbes or other tiny creatures.

Since nano-scale silver particles are now frequently incorporated into the fabric of, for example, diabetic stockings, in order to help stop diabetic foot ulcers from becoming infected, this was an interesting conjecture.

The environmentalists then paid a few college students and their professors to do a study in which they took a pair of diabetic stockings with silver nano-particles incorporated into the fabric, and rinsed those stockings in pure water to show that each time the stockings are rinsed, a small number of silver nanoparticles leach out of the stocking fabric. Then they took the silver nanoparticles that were rinsed from the stockings and injected them into small aquariums filled with zebra fish.

And as they added more and more of the rinsed silver particles into the habitat, the little zebra fish absorbed the silver particles and became sick. The researchers then concluded from the study that silver particles released into the environment are potentially harmful to the fauna that make up the environmental ecology.

In other words, they added pure silver nano-particles into a small controlled environment containing zebra fish, until there was enough silver in it to overdose the zebra fish.

Any third grader could do the same experiment. But any third grader could also see that adding far smaller amounts of silver nano-particles into the zebra fish habitat would have caused no harm whatsoever.

The bottom line is that small amounts of silver nano-particles would actually help sustain the life of the zebra fish, because it would help prevent fungal infections, for example, that are common to the fish and frequently wipe out entire populations of the fish. But significantly larger amounts of silver nano-particles can cause harm to the zebra fish themselves, due to toxic overdose.

In other words, it is all in the dosage. Just like with humans, i.e., if you take an aspirin, you can get rid of a headache. But if you take twenty or thirty aspirins, you get bleeding stomach ulcers.

So the researchers "proved" nothing. They simply demonstrated that overdosing zebra fish with pure silver nano-particles injected directly into a controlled environment will harm the zebra fish.

What Happens to Silver Nano-Particles in the Environment?

The problem with the study is this: Those poor little zebra fish were overdosed with pure silver nano-particles. But as a whole, you never find pure silver nano-particles in nature. At least, not in the same context that the environmentalists are speaking of.

That’s because, once released into the environment, silver nano-particles simply cannot maintain their "nano" scale attributes. Instead, silver nano-particles tend to agglomerate with natural salts, minerals and other substances in the environment almost immediately, and form larger particle agglomerates that completely negate the silver’s nano-scale properties – the very properties the environmentalists claim to be so worried about.

In other words, silver nano-particles released into the environment essentially become bound silver (i.e., bound to salts, minerals and other substances) rather than free silver, and are at that point basically inert in comparison to their previous nano-scale attributes.

In their experiments, the environmentalists did not account for this. They simply added pure silver nanoparticles into the zebra fish habitat, until the build-up caused toxicity.

If they had first taken those pure silver nanoparticles and placed them into a natural environment like a stream bed or a tide pool, or even a sewage system, where the tiny silver particles would have agglomerated with other substances and would thereby have completely lost their nanoscale properties, the results of the experiments the environmentalists are touting would have been quite different.

In short, there would have been no harm to the little zebra fish whatsoever, because the silver would have been bonded to other substances.

Tons of Silver in the Lakes, Streams and Oceans, Yet They Team With Life

This is why, for example, fresh water streams containing millions or even billions of miniscule grains of silver from silver mining run-off, or even from natural silver deposits in the stream beds, are still literally teaming with life. One of my favorite fishing streams still has numerous old silver mining “tailings” being worked by local freelance miners, running directly into it. Yet in spite of the relatively high silver content of the water, life abounds there!

Likewise, you also have to ask yourself why the world’s oceans are literally teaming with life, from billons of microscopic creatures including bacteria, viruses and single-celled protozoa all the way up the food chain to shrimp, sardines, larger fish, and mammals such as porpoises and whales, in spite of the fact that there are an estimated more than two million tons of trace mineral silver in the oceans.

Again, this is “trace” mineral silver, meaning very tiny particles of mineral silver, not large nuggets of silver. But this vast amount of trace mineral silver in the oceans of the world causes no harm whatsoever to the life teaming in those oceans. Indeed, it is part of the natural mineral support system of the ocean.

And why is there no harm from this phenomenal amount of silver in the world’s oceans? Because the vast majority of the silver particles agglomerate, or bond, with salts, minerals and other substances, forming relatively larger particulates that are simply not harmful or toxic.

Even elevated ocean surface water concentrations of very small silver particles that enter the oceans from aerosol industrial pollution (chiefly from Asia, where coal-burning pollution laws are lax) end up safely returning to the environment by binding with other minerals.

As a recent study from the University of California at Santa Cruz points out, “Atmospheric inputs of natural and/or industrial aerosols appear to elevate silver concentrations in remote surface waters in the South Atlantic, where silver is effectively scavenged onto and/or bioaccumulated by plankton. The subsequent remobilization of silver with depth is relatively coincident with that of silicate, suggesting much of that silver is sequestered within a refractory organic phase associated with biogenic silica. That silver is then remineralized, and appears to be conservatively transported in subsurface water masses throughout the World Ocean.” [Emphasis mine.]

In other words, the tiny particles of silver carried by aerosol pollution from coal-burning plants in Asia are carried by the winds, ultimately reaching ocean surface waters in the South Atlantic. Then those tiny, microscopic silver particles are “scavenged” or “bioaccumulated” by plankton.

As the plankton die off naturally over the course of time, the silver then bonds with biological silica, a mineral by-product of the plankton and other ocean vegetation. At that point the silver is, in essence, “remineralized.”

Due to the heavier weight caused by the bonding of the silver particles with silica, it is then transported into deeper waters (i.e., “subsurface water masses”) following basically the same pattern of all other ocean minerals.

Indeed, the study’s authors could find no major difference between the distribution of silver in the ocean and other minerals and metals natural to the ocean waters. The authors even quote from another study documenting that silver distribution in the water column (i.e., the ocean top to ocean bottom) is basically having no negative effects:

“The influence of microbial activity on the release of silver within the water column is reportedly negligible,” meaning that even persistent microbial activity on the plankton that has scavenged the silver and bonded it to silicate does not result in the release of significant amounts of free silver into the ocean. The silver remains tied-up, or bonded to the silicate, and is thus basically inert, rather than toxic.

The Sky is Falling, The Sky Is Falling!

The bottom line is that the environmentalists are like the little kid in the children’s story who ran screaming “the sky is falling, the sky is falling,” when in reality everything was fine. But environmentalists nevertheless believe their warning cry is fully justified, because, after all, one day the sky might really fall.

In other words, rather than presenting realistic evidence of an actual problem, the environmentalists instead “foresee” the day when nano-silver “might” become so prevalently used in society that it “could” begin to cause some kind of as-yet-undefined environmental “catastrophe.” And they conclude therefore that nano-silver must be heavily regulated now, in order to help prevent a potential future environmental disaster.

Their “foresight” is all so much drama, very much like a Jerry Springer sideshow. But it is based upon sheer ignorance of what happens to small particles of silver when they are returned to the environment and bond with minerals and other substances.

The enviro-nuts even go so far as to use older and completely irrelevant studies to justify their position. For example, one study they tout found that clams quit breeding when literally tons of toxic silver chemicals (such as silver nitrate) were dumped into San Francisco bay.

Of course, this was the result of environmental malfeasance by the film processing industry, which used tons of silver in film manufacturing and processing. It can hardly be related to colloidal silver usage, or to the incorporation of silver nanoparticles into, for example, diabetic stockings.

The film processing industry itself is now barely a distant memory, thanks largely to the advent of digital cameras. So the possibility of another San Francisco bay incident is basically slim to none, and Slim just left town. In other words, the issue is moot, except to the whacko environmentalists who keep dredging up this old history in order to justify their present neuroses against silver.

Of course, this kind of historical back-reasoning is typical of the environmentalists. After all, they likewise claim we should all quit driving our cars and start riding to work on bicycles because an allegedly drunk ship captain caused an oil spill in Alaska 30 years ago that killed some ducks and fish. Yes, it might happen again. But is preventing it really worth the inconvenience of not having cars?

Re-Defining “Nano”

These rabid environmentalists have even gone so far as to re-define “nano” as meaning anything from one nanometer up to 100 nanometers in size. That’s like re-defining “gallons” to mean anything from one to 100 gallons.

Of course, by vastly broadening the generally accepted meaning of “nano” from one nanometer to “anything up to 100 nanometers,” they have conveniently brought just about every brand of colloidal silver in existence under the “nano” umbrella, as most of the silver particles in modern brands of colloidal silver are well under 100 nm.

In my early January 2009 email correspondence with the attorney for the environmental groups who are suing EPA to regulate silver as a “pesticide,” I asked why his clients listed various brands of colloidal silver in the addendum to their EPA petition. He replied that if a colloidal silver product meets their definition of “nano” -- whether it is advertised as “nanosilver” or not -- it still needs to be regulated as a pesticide.

That’s their mindset. First they re-define it so as to put the maximum number of products possible into their regulatory gun sights. Then they regulate it.

Targeting Colloidal Silver

So as you can see, these rabid environmentalists are indeed directly targeting colloidal silver, in spite of the fact that the likelihood of colloidal silver usage ever causing any harm to the environment is just about nil.

Even if every person in the United States were to start using colloidal silver tomorrow, its impact on the environment would be negligible due to the fact that when silver is released into the environment in even moderate amounts it bonds with other minerals and becomes basically inert. You’d have to make a silver spill of gigantic proportions (i.e., tons), over a long period of time, as happened in San Francisco bay years ago when the film processing industry dumped excess amounts of silver into the bay.

The environmentalist groups are, in my opinion, just using the “nanosilver” issue to justify the regulation of colloidal silver, which will in effect put the vast majority of colloidal silver manufacturers and distributors out of business due to their inability to comply with costly environmental regulations.

It will also drive the costs of making and distributing colloidal silver through the roof for those few companies that might be able to afford to comply with the new pesticide regulations.

Today colloidal silver is relatively affordable to the average consumer. But as always, the excess costs of regulation will be borne solely by consumers.

In essence, at the very least, if these new regulations are embraced and enforced by the EPA, the manufacturing and distribution of colloidal silver products is going to become tightly controlled by a small handful of corporations that can afford to jump through the regulatory hoops.

This means the price of colloidal silver is going to go through the roof, and your choice of colloidal silver distributors, brands, varieties, etc., will, unlike today where you can choose from 100 or even 500 relatively inexpensive different brands, be reduced to two or three very expensive brands, at most.

So this battle is not just about health freedom, but consumer freedom of choice, too.

Big Pharma

My question from Monday’s blog post remains unanswered: Who is funding the environmentalists to pursue this avenue of silver regulation? Who stands to benefit the most from restricting silver’s availability?

My best guess would be Big Pharma.

Big Phama failed to get colloidal silver regulated by the FDA back in 1999, succeeding only in having the FDA ban the mention of silver’s powerful antibiotic qualities from product advertising and labeling.

Of course, that backfired on them. The FDA’s 1999 “Final Ruling” on colloidal silver only served to incense the public about bureaucratic meddling in their health care choices. As a direct result of the anger generated by the FDA’s “Final Ruling,” more people today know about and regularly use colloidal silver than ever before.

So now they are trying to restrict colloidal silver by using paid shills within the environmental movement to promote the spurious idea that “nanosilver is harmful to the environment.”

Will it work? The choice is up to health-conscious people like you.

Regards,
S. Spencer Jones

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P.P.S. What to Do Right Now -- We were among the first to uncover this plot by a consortium of rabid environmental groups to force the EPA to start regulating silver as a “pesticide,” most likely at the behest of the global pharmaceutical companies.

What’s more, we sounded the alarm, emailing hundreds of colloidal silver manufacturers and distributors and dozens of health freedom groups to let them know about this egregious attempt to destroy the colloidal silver market.

We have spent countless hours writing about this subject, and have published numerous articles across the internet in an effort to alert the public.

What’s more, we have mailed nearly 50,000 letters at a cost to us of nearly $36,000 alerting natural health enthusiasts to the situation.

We have put our money and time where our mouth is, so to speak. Now it is up to you! Be sure to do your part by letting the EPA know that you do not want them to start regulating silver as a “pesticide.”

You can do so by taking any of the following four steps:

Step #1: Go to the brand new EPA public comments page at this link (click here) and post your comments on the EPA web site. Explain why you do not want the EPA to regulate silver nanoparticles as “pesticides.” If you need verbiage for your comments, pull any text you need from my above comments. You can reword them, or use them as is.

Step #2: Email your comments opposing the petition to regulate silver particles as “pesticides” to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson. His email address is: johnson.stephen@epa.gov

It is very important that we absolutely bombard the EPA with comments, so please take the time to send your comments by email, and also post them on the EPA web site (see the link in step #1 above).

Step #3: Fax your comments to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, at his Washington DC fax number: (202)-501-1450.

This is an additional step you can take if you really want to make an impact.

Step #4: Send a personal letter to the Washington DC office of EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson. His address is as follows:Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P)ATTN: Administrator Stephen JohnsonEnvironmental Protection Agency1200 Pennsylvania Ave, NWWashington, DC 20460-0001

Personal letters have more impact than any other method of communication with bureaucrats. So if you have the extra time, print out your comments, stick them in an envelope, and mail them to the EPA administrator at the address above.

Important Note: All comments to the EPA – whether you make them by email, fax, snail mail or through the public comments section of their web site -- must reference the “Petition for Rulemaking Requesting EPA Regulate Nanoscale Silver Products as Pesticides,” and must also reference the new Docket #: EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0650-0506. That way they know exactly what you are talking about.

In Conclusion

We are all in this together. And together we can win.

If we stop them today, we’ll have stopped them altogether. But if we fail to stop them today, we will have allowed them to set a precedent that I promise you will have no end. The rabid environmentalists will continue to work to put substances under EPA regulation that have no business being there.

If you think I’m kidding, go to this web page and read the article entitled “Nanoparticles In Dietary Supplements Cause Health Concerns, Regulatory Challenges.”

Or go to this web page and read the article titled, “Questioning the Safety Of Nanotechnology In Your Vitamins.”

Yes, the enviro-nuts are already targeting for regulation a variety of other nutritional supplements just because they contain tiny particles of the active ingredient that allow greater absorption by the human body, and thus work better.

You see, in their warped minds, if tiny particles of silver are dangerous, so are tiny particles of any other active ingredient.

The bottom line is that we have to stop then here and now. We can’t let them start regulating colloidal silver as a “pesticide,” or they will have set the precedent to regulate every other nutritional supplement on planet earth into oblivion – especially since we already know they will simply re-define the term “nano” until it covers every product ingredient imaginable.

Important Links:

http://www.colloidalsilversecretsvideo.com/
http://www.ultimatecolloidalsilvermanual.com/
http://www.thesilveredge.com/
http://www.microparticlegenerator.com/
http://www.colloidalsilvercuresmrsa.com/
http://www.lifeandhealthresearchgroup.com/

In Defense of Colloidal Silver, Part I: Colloidal Silver Users Tell EPA "Hands Off Our Colloidal Silver!"

In Defense of Colloidal Silver: Colloidal Silver Users Tell EPA “Hands Off Our Colloidal Silver!”

Thousands of individuals have phoned, faxed, written or made comments on the EPA online comments page, explaining their views on the petition by several radical environmental groups who want the EPA regulate silver as a “pesticide.”

Thankfully, the posts now run over 100 to one against the petition. Of course, that doesn’t mean the EPA will turn down the petition to regulate silver as a “pesticide.” The EPA is a bureaucracy, and all bureaucracies exist solely for the purpose of expanding their base of power.

So whatever you do, please don’t become complacent in thinking we have this battle won, just because we managed to post more online comments (so far, anyway) than the members of the rabid environmental groups have. We have not yet won this battle. As the old saying goes, "It ain’t over until the fat lady sings," and the fat lady (EPA) doesn’t sing until March 20.

So as of today (Feb 23, 2009), there are still 25 days left until the new petition deadline. (See this blog post for more information on the deadline extension.) And we are told that the lunatic environmental groups behind this ominous petition to have silver re-classified by the EPA as a “pesticide” have some real sneaky last minute tactics up their sleeves, including a last-minute release of new "studies" that supposedly "prove" silver's "harm to the environment."

We have expected these kinds of tactics from the enviro-whackos for some time now. So whatever you do, please don’t fall asleep at the wheel. This is not time to let our collective guards down. Continue to post your comments to the EPA online comments site, and also email, fax and write them using the contact information provided at the link in the paragraph directly above.

Why should you continue to post comments to the EPA? Simple. Because it is vitally important that we continue to keep up the pressure on the EPA, letting them know that our right to have unrestricted access to colloidal silver is an issue we care passionately about, and that we are not willing to lose our health freedom rights just because some sky-is-falling environmentalists suffer under the delusion that silver is somehow “harmful to the environment.”

Check out These Excellent Posts to the EPA Web Site

Comments posted to government web sites are in the public domain. So directly below I have taken some of the most interesting comments directly from the EPA comments page, and have re-posted them here for you to read.

I am doing this in the hope that some of the posts from your fellow colloidal silver enthusiasts will give you new ideas for making further comments to the EPA, and will also encourage you to help us keep up the pressure and force the bureaucrats to back down while there is still time to win this battle.

Here then, in no particular order, are some of the most enlightening comments from colloidal silver advocates about the petition to have silver classified as a "pesticide":

1. Comment Tracking Number: 8082c6ed

This writer points out that silver has been known for over 100 years to stop fungal and yeast infections, and that since even recent medical studies bear this out, it should not be regulated as a "pesticide"…

Comment: Nano Scale Silver which has been available for retail sale for decades and used in Medicine from circa 1902 to 1938 is a safe alternative to a number of prescriptions and OTC drugs for Fungal and Yeast (Candida) on the markets. Therefore, I request the EPA OPP deny the Petitioners request to regulate Nano Scale/Colloidal Silver. See documentation below.

1: J Microbiol Biotechnol. 2008 Aug;18(8):1482-4. Links Antifungal effect of silver nanoparticles on dermatophytes.Kim KJ, Sung WS, Moon SK, Choi JS, Kim JG, Lee DG. Department of Microbiology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701, Korea.

Spherical silver nanoparticles (nano-Ag) were synthesized and their antifungal effects on fungal pathogens of the skin were investigated. Nano-Ag showed potent activity against clinical isolates and ATCC strains of Trichophyton mentagrophytes and Candida species (IC80, 1-7 microg/ml). The activity of nano-Ag was comparable to that of amphotericin B, but superior to that of fluconazole (amphotericin B IC80, 1-5 microg/ml; fluconazole IC80, 10- 30 microg/ml).

Additionally, we investigated their effects on the dimorphism of Candida albicans. The results showed nano-Ag exerted activity on the mycelia. Thus, the present study indicates nano-Ag may have considerable antifungal activity, deserving further investigation for clinical applications.

2. Comment Tracking Number: 8082b405

This writer points out that silver is has been found in the environment for millions of years, during which time life as we know it has developed and flourished. So it could not possibly be of harm to the environment and is in no need of being regulated as a “pesticide.” I would add that the environmentalists who think silver is somehow harmful to the environment must either be idiots, or have an ulterior motive for wanting to have silver regulated as a “pesticide.” I’d also ask, who’s paying these environmental nut-jobs to push this issue?

Comment: Colloidal silver is supremely effective against just about every kind of single celled pathogen, including bacteria, fungal growths and viruses (which antibiotics are often wrongly prescribed for, despite the fact that antibiotics have no effect on viruses).

Silver is a natural element that has been found in the soil for millions of years as mankind and animal and vegetable life have developed and flourished.

Recent studies in Hungary have discovered silver receptors on human cell tissue, which means that silver is in fact an essential element for health in humans.

The EPA conducted its own study on silver a few years back and found it to be non toxic in any but huge amounts far beyond what anyone would ingest in a colloidal silver product. NASA conducted tests to find the best and safest product for water purification and chose silver and they continue to use it in many applications, including the International Space Station, where they use nano-sized silver.

Nano-sized silver does not remain in that form for any length of time after being re-introduced to the environment and so should definitely NOT be considered a pesticide and any laws banning it's use are in violation of constitutionally protected unalienable rights as declared by the Declaration of Independence.

3. Comment Tracking Number: 8082a05b

This writer points out that silver’s value to society as a potent anti-microbial should trump the environmentalists’ desire to regulate silver products into oblivion.

Comment: Please don't regulate silver products as pesticides.

I've been using colloidal silver for years and have had no adverse side effects. I make my own with a colloidal silver generator that is very safe and easy to use. I've recently tried the nanosilver products and they're superior. I've found them to work much quicker at ridding flu and cold like symptoms. This is a valuable tool in the fight against infectious diseases and needs to be available to all human beings with purpose...

4. Comment Tracking Number: 80827ff0

This writer points out through a personal testimonial that silver has proven to be extremely effective against chronic illnesses and severe allergies for her, and that regulating it as a “pesticide” will likely force it off the market or price it out of the range of the average consumer, because only the largest corporations could afford to comply with the EPA regulations governing pesticides.

Comment: I am responding to voice my opposition to the petition to regulate nanosilver as a pesticide.

There are arguments I could make on the scientific side supporting my position. I will trust, not foolishly I hope, that the EPA will do its due diligence in this area because the research is out there to show the safety of nanosilver.

Instead I would like to offer comments from personal experience. I suffer with chronic illnesses and severe allergies. In an effort to control my symptoms and stop the deterioration of many of my bodies systems there have been different approaches tried but with only minimal success.

One blessed day, one of my doctors talked to me about some research he had read about the medicinal uses of silver and felt that it might be helpful in my situation. He did more research on the use of nanosilver and also researched the companies producing it. I also did research on my own, not only because I have to be extremely careful because my body can tolerate so little, but also because I take very seriously anything that I put in or on my body.

Only after all of this did we decide to begin using nanosilver which was purchased from one of the companies listed in the literature by the petitioners. I have been using the nanosilver for over a year now and have only positive results to report. There has been much improvement in my quality of life. I have suffered no side effects to date.

By regulating silver as a pesticide it will likely force it off of the market because of the costs that will be required to meet all of the additional regulations put on it. I imagine that these costs could be easily absorbed by a very large corporation who would then have control of not only the production but also the cost of the product which would be driven by nothing but the bottom line.

At this time, when the expense of health care falls on each citizen who has to struggle to do what he can for himself, taking away any of our options is not acceptable. I say this not only with the cost issue in mind but also because there are medically proven uses for nanosilver products. There is research out there that conclusively shows this.

Again, I oppose all action requested in this petition.

5. Comment Tracking Number: 80827ae7

This writer offers another testimonial to the fact that colloidal silver is extremely effective against serious infections, including antibiotic-resistant staph infections (which, I might add, are now reaching epidemic proportions, and according to CBS News are now killing more Americans each year than AIDS.)

Comment: Do not vote for EPA regulation of colloidal silver. I have used this product for years and have it to be completely and a very effective treatment for infection. I had a bad staph infection which numerous prescription antibiotics failed to cure. After a few weeks of colloidal silver I was completely cured.

6. Comment Tracking Number: 80824e14

This writer quite eloquently points out that there has been no documentation or proof whatsoever that silver has ever harmed the environment, or that it poses an imminent threat to the environment.

Comment: Regarding the Petition for Rulemaking Requesting EPA Regulate Nanoscale Silver Products as Pesticides

I am writing to oppose the EPA proposal to regulate colloidal silver products as pesticides. Colloidal silver has been shown to have significant infection-fighting properties, including recent evidence that it is effective against MRSA. Hospitals in Europe have begun using it for this purpose.

Nevertheless, the FDA continues to assert that colloidal silver has no meaningful anti-bacterial properties whatsoever. If this is the case, then it is inherently contradictory for the EPA to categorize colloidal silver as a dangerous pesticide due to those very same anti-bacterial properties which the FDA claims do not exist.

Notwithstanding, the EPA currently maintains that since nano particles of silver contained in colloidal silver products could be released into the general environment and kill beneficial bacteria, colloidal silver should be classified as a dangerous pesticide. Concern about the unknown environmental effects of nano technology in general is understandable. A review of the clearly established specific scientific properties of colloidal silver, however, renders this concern inapplicable. The small particles in colloidal silver are inherently unstable; without stringent efforts to combat their natural tendencies, they immediately recombine to form larger, non-nano-sized particles of silver naturally present in the environment.

Therefore, even if significant amounts of colloidal silver products were somehow released into the general environment, they would present no danger.

To date, there have been no scientific or environmental studies which have established that colloidal silver products present any kind of environmental danger. The proposed regulations are based on mere supposition.

Requiring the manufacturers of colloidal silver, who are small businesses rather than large corporations, to conclusively prove that their product is safe would implicate a huge financial burden which none of these businesses could sustain.

The effect of the proposed regulations, therefore, would be to eliminate, for no defensible reason, the availability of a product which many consider beneficial. If the EPA wished to regulate colloidal silver products, there should first be some clear scientific studies indicating that they are, in fact, harmful.

7. Comment Tracking Number: 80823bf4

This writer also has a great point, i.e., there has been no research documenting any harm from silver to the environment, yet the EPA is wasting time on this issue rather than investigating a real problem, which is the potentially detrimental effects of on both people and animals from the tons of prescription drugs and chemical concoctions that are dumped into our nation’s water system every year.

Comment: I WOULD LIKE THIS SENT TO THE EPA REQUESTING THEM TO NOT VOTE TO REGULATE COLLOIDAL SILVER FOR PERSONAL USE. I FEEL THIS IS A NATURAL PRODUCT THAT HAS DEFINITE HEALTH BENEFITS. NEITHER MYSELF, MY FAMILY NOR MANY OTHERS I KNOW WHO HAVE USED IT OVER A COURSE OF MANY YEARS HAVE EVER HAD ANY KNOWN PROBLEMS FROM TAKING IT - ONLY BENEFITS. IT IS NOT COSTLY AND IS READILY AVAILABLE.

I HAVE RESEARCHED MEDICAL PAPERS ON IT THAT HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME AND CANNOT SEE FROM THEM WHY THE EPA WOULD BE CONSIDERING REGULATION.

I HAVE SPOKEN AT LENGTH WITH A UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR WHO REASEARCHED WHAT HE SAID WAS EVERY KNOWN MEDICAL PAPER WRITTEN ON COLOOIDAL SILVER AND FOUND NO PROBLEMS WITH IT. SO, AS PART OF THE PUBLIC COMMENT COLLECTION ON THIS SUBJECT PLEASE CONSIDER THESE COMMENTS IN THE DECISION PROCESS.

IF THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED DANGEROUS AND WORTHY OF REGULATION I WOULD WONDER ABOUT THE OBJECTIVITY AND DATA USED. FURTHER, THE AMOUNT OF USE OF COLLOIDAL SILVER IS EXCEEDINGLY SMALL. BETTER TO LOOK AT THE SERIOUS PROBLEM THAT IS WELL WRITTEN ABOUT CONCERNING VAST QUANTITIES OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS THAT ARE MIXED INTO UNKNOWN CHEMICAL COCKTAILS AND PASSED FROM PATIENTS INTO THE WATER SYSTEMS OF THIS COUNTRY VIA SEPTICS AND PUBLIC WATER TREATMENT PLANTS THAT THEN AFFECT THE LIVING FORMS WITH WHICH THEY COME INTO CONTACT.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

Help Us Keep the Heat on the Bureaucrats

It is plain to see that colloidal silver users are making some very important and thought-provoking comments regarding the petition asking EPA to essentially regulate silver products – including colloidal silver – into oblivion.

In a few days, I’ll post some more of these excellent comments, taken directly from the EPA online comments system, so you can read them and hopefully be inspired and encouraged by them. But for now, please, please, get back on the EPA web site and post another comment, or email your views on this issue to EPA director Stephen Johnson, or fax him your comments, or simply write him a letter.

Again, you can get all of the updated contact information you need at this blog post.

The old saying about dealing with the government is, “When they begin to feel the heat, they start to see the light.” We must keep the heat on them. We must make it abundantly clear to the EPA that we will not tolerate any threat to our health freedom rights, at any time, and particularly where they relate to colloidal silver.

One Final Important Note:
EPA to Target Colloidal Silver Generators, Too!

Apparently, the EPA even has the little colloidal silver generators in their gun sites at this point.

In fact, the EPA has apparently declared colloidal silver generators to be “pesticide” producing devices, and they have forced Samsung washing machine company to register the little colloidal silver generator inside their “Silver Care” line of washing machines. We believe this action sets the precedent for regulating ALL colloidal silver generators. You can read more about it in the blog post at this link.

In short, colloidal silver generator manufacturers will be forced to prove that their little units will not harm any “environmentally sensitive” microorganisms if the silver particles they produce are somehow released into the environment. This is ridiculous, of course. But it demonstrates how desperate the bureaucrats are to quash colloidal silver usage altogether.

Your best solution at this point is to purchase a colloidal silver generator now, while they are still legally available. That way, even if the EPA ultimately bans colloidal silver usage, or drives colloidal silver vendors out of business, you will be able to make all of the safe, pure, natural colloidal silver your family could ever need, in the comfort and privacy of your own home, for only pennies per batch, and there is not a darn thing the bureaucrats can do about it.

They key, of course, is to get a generator now, while they are still legally available. We strongly recommend the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from our good friends at http://www.thesilveredge.com/

For more information on colloidal silver and colloidal silver usage, get a copy of the inexpensive new 60-minute, studie-quality Colloidal Silver Secrets Video at http://www.colloidalsilversecretsvideo.com/.

Or for information on colloidal silver usage that is absolutely encyclopedic in scope, see the newly updated 547-page Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual at http://www.ultimatecolloidalsilvermanual.com/

Important Links:

http://www.colloidalsilversecretsvideo.com/
http://www.ultimatecolloidalsilvermanual.com/
http://www.thesilveredge.com/
http://www.microparticlegenerator.com/
http://www.colloidalsilvercuresmrsa.com/
http://www.lifeandhealthresearchgroup.com/

Why the News Media Won’t Tell you About Colloidal Silver’s Astonishing Ability to Cure MRSA Infections

This 13-minute video report from CBS News on the soaring MRSA epidemic is quite revealing. Not because it documents the fact that MRSA infections have now spread into the general community – called Community Based MRSA -- and that the deadly superbug is now attacking athletes on high school and college campuses, children in elementary schools and nurseries, and basically the general public at large, causing a whopping 100,000 infections and several thousand deaths each year. "No one denies this is an epidemic" says one doctor to CBS news anchor Leslie Stahl.

No. The video report is revealing because, if you watch it all of the way through to the end, you can discern exactly why the news media and the medical community simply will not mention colloidal silver's medically documented ability literally decimate MRSA infections.

When asked how to solve the MRSA epidemic, one doctor said, "We need more research."

CBS news anchor Leslie Stahl the states, “New drugs for MRSA are emerging from the pharmaceutical pipeline, but there’s little doubt the superbug will become resistant to them, too.”

Finally, the clincher: “The real hope lies with researchers working on a MRSA vaccine.”

Are you starting to get it?

They won't even mention silver's ability to control MRSA infections, because they have "new antibiotics in the pipeline" and "MRSA vaccines" on the way. Nice, expensive ones, too, you can bet, that will make hundreds of millions of dollars a year for Big Pharma.

And you can also bet they will cause ungodly side effects just like the new Gardasil vaccine for Human Papillomavirus, that has resulted in over 10,000 adverse events reports since it was unveiled last year, with side effects ranging from anaphylactic shock to foaming at mouth, grand mal convulsion, coma, paralysis, spontaneous abortion and death.

What You Can Do to Protect Yourself

MRSA is now rampant throughout the United States, having reached epidemic proportions in 2008 and 2009, with no sign of slowing down. The rate of MRSA infections is now rapidly approaching 100,000 a year and is striking men, women and children with impunity. What's more, annual deaths from this plague of MRSA infections now surpass deaths from AIDS.

Don’t you think it’s time you learned about the one, simple natural cure for MRSA that’s been known for over 20 years? For the sake of your own health and well-being, and that of your family, check out http://www.ColloidalSilverCuresMRSA.com/

And to learn even more about the phenomental infection-fighting power of colloidal silver, consider getting a copy of the newly updated, 547-page Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual, now the world's best-selling book on colloidal silver and its usage.


Important Links:

http://www.ColloidalSilverSecretsVideo.com
http://www.UltimateColloidalSilverManual.com
http://www.TheSilverEdge.com
http://www.MicroParticleGenerator.com
http://www.ColloidalSilverCuresMRSA.com
http://www.LifeandHealthResearchGroup.com

New Study Proves Colloidal Silver Decimates Fungal Pathogens; Even Superior to Popular Anti-Fungal Drugs

New Study Proves Colloidal Silver Decimates Fungal Pathogens; Even Superior to Popular Anti-Fungal Drugs

A recent study (see study overview at the end of this article) conducted by the Department of Microbiology at Kyungpook National University in Daegu, Korea, and published in the prestigious Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, demonstrates what tens of thousands of colloidal silver users have already known for years, i.e., colloidal silver is one of the most powerful and effective natural anti-fungal agents in the world.

The study authors tested silver nanoparticles (read: colloidal silver) against the Candida species of fungus (the chief culprit in women’s vaginal yeast infections and the more sinister chronic candidiasis syndrome) as well as the Trichophyton species (the most common cause of athlete's foot , jock itch and ringworm, as well as hair and nail fungal infections in humans).

What they discovered is that the silver particles “showed potent activity against clinical isolates and ATCC strains” of the fungal pathogens.

What this means is silver was equally effective against lab-grown strains of the fungal pathogens and strains isolated from infected specimens.

Colloidal Silver Even Beats Diflucan

The study authors also found that silver was comparable in effectiveness to Amphotericin B, one of the most powerful prescription antifungal drugs known to man, which is often used intravenously to cure serious systemic fungal infections.

What’s more, silver was found to be superior in effectiveness to the well-known anti-fungal drug fluconazole (popularly known as Diflucan).

Treating Fungal Infections With Colloidal Silver

This is of course nothing new to experienced colloidal silver users. They frequently use this powerful natural antibiotic to heal fungal infections of all sorts.

For example, it is now well known that many nasty cases of dandruff are actually topical fungal skin infections in disguise. What’s not as well known publicly is that colloidal silver, put into a simple pump spray bottle and sprayed lightly on the head each morning after drying your hair from the shower will eliminate such topical stealth fungal infections in a matter of days!

Fungal infections of the inner ear can likewise be cured in only a few short days simply by putting a few drops of colloidal silver into the ears each day for several days in a row, allowing it to seep down into the ear for ten of fifteen minutes before draining it back out.

Likewise, fungal infections of the eyes can be healed practically overnight, simply by putting a couple of drops of colloidal silver directly into the eyes, several times a day. (Similarly, Pink Eye can also be eradicated in a few short days using the same technique. And it works great for styes too, which many doctors believe are simply staph infections in the eye.)

Thrush mouth, which is simply a Candida “yeast” fungal overgrowth in the mouth, and is often characterized by a white tongue, can be rapidly cured by using colloidal silver. Simply swish a tablespoonful of colloidal silver around in your mouth two or three times a day, for a good five minutes each time. You can swallow afterwards, or simply spit it out if you prefer. Do this especially after any meal in which sugary products have been consumed. You’ll find the “thrush” symptoms diminishing within a few short days, and eradicated within a week or two.

Athlete’s foot and stubborn toenail fungal infections can also be wiped out by using colloidal silver instead of potentially harmful antifungal drugs that have been known to harm the liver. Simply take a glass baking dish (such as the ones used for baking cakes) and pour an inch and half or so of colloidal silver into it. Then soak your feet for about 30 minutes while watching television or reading a book.

Athlete’s foot can be eradicated in a few short days following this simple method. But stubborn toenail fungal infections may take up to three weeks, or even a bit longer. Nevertheless, you’ll soon notice nice, clear new nails growing in where the old yellowy, or gray-green infected nails were. Trim the old infected toenail away as it grows out naturally, and let the beautiful new, uninfected nail grow in normally.

[Granted, the above-described procedure can be very expensive if you are using commercially prepared colloidal silver products purchased from a health food store or through an internet source. Commercial brands of colloidal silver can cost up to $30 for a tiny four-ounce bottle – which is hardly enough to fill a baking dish once, much less each night for three weeks. That’s why we strongly recommend the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator, which allows you to make a full quart of high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver at a time, for about 36 cents. Your first batch or two literally pays for the entire cost of the generator, based upon the prices charged by health food stores for commercial colloidal silver brands. In fact, when you make your own colloidal silver with a high-quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator, each one-quart batch is the equivalent of eight of those tiny four-ounce bottles you find in health food stores for around $30 a bottle. In other words, what you can make yourself for 36 cents would cost you up to $240 were you to purchase it at a health food store. That’s why owning the means of colloidal silver production by purchasing a high-quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator is so essential in these days of strange diseases. Get the generator, and make your own colloidal silver quickly and easily, in the comfort and privacy of your own home, for only 36 cents a quart for the rest of your life. That’s as close to “free” colloidal silver as you’re ever going to get!]

Vaginal and Systemic Candida Yeast Infections

Perhaps the most widely known use of colloidal silver for fungal infections is its use by women who suffer from chronic vaginal Candida yeast infections, or systemic Candida yeast infections. Women frequently use larger than normal doses of colloidal silver for a few weeks -- anywhere from two to four ounces daily of a 10 ppm solution –in order to rid themselves of nasty Candida yeast infections.

Internal use of colloidal silver like that against deep-seated fungal infections such as Candida yeast can be amazingly effective. However, for maximum success you absolutely have to remember to re-establish your body’s natural intestinal flora during and after the treatment period.

Contrary to popular belief, colloidal silver does not know the difference between the beneficial bacteria that inhabit your intestinal tract, aiding in digestion and contributing to the body’s overall immune status, and the nasty fungal and microbial pathogens that compete for turf in the same region and wreak havoc on your health.

Generally speaking, colloidal silver kills all single-celled microbes it comes into contact with, good and bad alike. And if you are taking larger-than-normal daily amounts of colloidal silver (such as three or four ounces a day rather than several small teaspoons full per day) in order to stop a nasty internal fungal infection, you can wipe out a large portion of your body’s beneficial micro-flora along with the fungal pathogens you’re after.

And because Candida yeast and other fungal pathogens are such rapid colonizers if there are no beneficial microorganisms in the intestinal tract to form a competitive barrier against them, all of your efforts to heal a Candida yeast infection can end up being for naught. The relatively large daily dose of colloidal silver will kill everything in its track, so to speak. And then when the treatment is finished, the Candida yeast fungus can step back in and re-colonize your entire intestinal tract, potentially leaving you in worse shape than when you started.

The simple solution is this: If you find that you have to use larger-than-normal daily amounts of colloidal silver internally to rid yourself of a persistent or deep-seated Candida yeast infection, be sure to re-colonize your digestive tract daily with Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bifidobacterium and other beneficial microbes that are native to the intestinal tract.

By doing so daily, during the entire colloidal silver treatment period and for a week or so afterwards, you will completely stop the Candida fungal pathogen from re-establishing colonies in your digestive tract.

You can do this by taking commercial supplements containing beneficial microbes, such as one called I-Flora from Sedona Labs which contains a “grid” of 16 different beneficial microorganisms that are native to the human intestinal tract. Or you can do so by eating moderate daily portions of high-quality yogurt containing high levels of active beneficial bacterial cultures.

You can purchase supplements containing high levels of beneficial bacterial at just about any good health food store. Or you can get high-quality yogurt with active beneficial bacterial cultures at health food store as well as many larger chain supermarkets.

One of Nature’s Most Astonishing Remedies Against Fungal Infections

With that simple caveat, you’ll probably find, like many thousands of other people have, that colloidal silver is one of nature’s most astonishing remedies against fungal infections.

Perhaps that is why colloidal silver is one of the top-recommended products for healing stubborn fungal infections mentioned in the best-selling book, Prescription for Nutritional Healing by certified nutrition counselor Phyllis A. Balch and her husband Dr. James F. Balch, M.D., who recommend it for everything from athlete’s foot to Candidiasis.

Learn More About Colloidal Silver Usage

To learn more about colloidal silver’s astonishing array of benefits against infection and disease, and how to use it effectively and safely, you might want to obtain an inexpensive copy of the brand new, studio-quality 60-minute Colloidal Silver Secrets Video at http://www.ColloidalSilverSecretsVideo.com/.

The video features yours truly being relentlessly interviewed by television personality Kristyn Burtt about colloidal silver and its usage. The video includes dosage information, usage demonstrations, a look at the best and worst kinds of colloidal silver generators, and even a segment on how to assemble a do-it-yourself emergency colloidal silver generator in under 2 minutes, out of common household items.

For more extensive information on colloidal silver usage, including three full chapters of intensive dosage information for specific diseases, you might want to consider getting a copy of the newly updated, 547-page Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual, which is now the world’s #1 bestselling book on colloidal silver and its usage.

Plus, there is a plethora of great information on colloidal silver at http://www.TheSilverEdge.com/, including a FREE downloadable 16-page special report on how to determine the safest daily colloidal silver dosage for you, based upon your own body weight, and in accord with the EPA’s published maximum safe daily intake level.

The Study Overview

Directly below you’ll find the brief overview I promised of the new university medical study which amply demonstrates colloidal silver’s incredible effectiveness against fungal pathogens of the Candida and Trichophyton species.

It is too bad the U.S. medical community refuses to embrace this vital, peer-reviewed information. If they did, they could pretty much help put an end to today’s growing epidemic of fungal infections, which can cause diseases ranging from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and fibromyalgia to serious immune system deficiencies, cancer and other life-threatening conditions.

The intransigence of the medical community in regards to its refusal to embrace colloidal silver even in the face of a growing body of new studies proving its effectiveness is due chiefly to the overwhelming influence wielded by the huge multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical corporations. Big Pharma simply does not want to see any relatively inexpensive, safe and natural nutritional supplement competing with their expensive and potentially harmful prescription antifungal, antiviral and antibiotic drugs.

So that’s where things stand. And it is largely why bureaucrats in the U.S. EPA and FDA are working so hard to re-classify beneficial silver nanoparticles (read: colloidal silver) as a “pesticide,” so they can regulate this safe, natural substance into oblivion at the behest of the big pharmaceutical companies. (See the latest blog post on this topic here.)

They don’t want you to know what researchers in other parts of the world are confirming in droves, i.e., that safe, natural colloidal silver is simply the most powerful natural pathogen killer on the face of the earth.

J Microbiol Biotechnol. 2008 Aug;18(8):1482-4.

Antifungal effect of silver nanoparticles on dermatophytes.Kim KJ, Sung WS, Moon SK, Choi JS, Kim JG, Lee DG. Department of Microbiology, College of Natural Scienes, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701, Korea.

Spherical silver nanoparticles (nano-Ag) were synthesized and their antifungal effects on fungal pathogens of the skin were investigated.

Nano-Ag showed potent activity against clinical isolates and ATCC strains of Trichophyton mentagrophytes and Candida species (IC80, 1-7 microg/ml).

The activity of nano-Ag was comparable to that of amphotericin B, but superior to that of fluconazole (amphotericin B IC80, 1-5 microg/ml; fluconazole IC80, 10- 30 microg/ml).

Additionally, we investigated their effects on the dimorphism of Candida albicans. The results showed nano-Ag exerted activity on the mycelia.

Thus, the present study indicates nano-Ag may have considerable antifungal activity, deserving further investigation for clinical applications.


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http://www.LifeandHealthResearchGroup.com

Updated Contact Information for Stopping the EPA from Regulating Colloidal Silver

Updated Contact Information for Stopping the EPA from Regulating Colloidal Silver

We’ve just heard from our good friend Ralph Fucetola, JD, also known as the Vitamin Lawyer, that EPA has put up a brand new page for public comments regarding the petition to regulate silver nanoparticles as “pesticides.” They have also assigned a brand new docket number to the petition.

The new public comments web page is located at this link:

http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=SubmitComment&o=090000648081edc9

The new docket number, which you must refer to in all correspondence with the EPA, is:

EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0650-0506

What to Do Now…

There are now five simple but absolutely vital steps you need to take to help win the battle to stop the EPA from regulating silver nanoparticles as “pesticides,” which would result in the removal of just about every brand of colloidal silver on the market today, and give a handful of big corporate interests the monopoly on the use of silver particles.

Step #1: Go to the brand new EPA public comments page at the link above (or click here) and register your comments. Explain why you do not want the EPA to regulate silver nanoparticles as “pesticides.” If you need verbiage for your comments, the blog post directly below this one has a sample letter you can pull from. They are in blue italic type, so you can find them quickly.

Step #2: Email your comments opposing the petition to regulate silver particles as “pesticides” to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson. His email address is: johnson.stephen@epa.gov

Step #3: Fax your comments to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, at his Washington DC fax number: (202)-501-1450.

Step #4: Send a personal letter to the Washington DC office of EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson. His address is as follows:

Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P)
ATTN: Administrator Stephen Johnson
Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20460-0001

Important Note: All comments to the EPA – whether you make them by email, fax, snail mail or through the public comments section of their web site -- must reference the “Petition for Rulemaking Requesting EPA Regulate Nanoscale Silver Products as Pesticides,” and must also reference the new Docket #: EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0650-0506

Step #5: Finally, go to the Health Freedom blog of the Ralph Fucetola, The Vitamin Lawyer, at http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2009/01/defending-nano-silver.html
and read his brief but highly pertinent comments about the battle to save colloidal silver from EPA regulation.

Then, go to the special web page link set up by the Natural Solutions Foundation, read their brief, four-paragraph comment asking the EPA to reject the petition to regulate silver nanoparticles as “pesticides,” and e-sign their comment. They will forward your e-signed comment to the EPA en masse with hundreds of others.

Why All 5 Steps?

I know this is a lot of work. And I know your time is extremely valuable. So is mine. I would much rather be writing about how to save lives with colloidal silver, rather than battling whacko environmental organizations and fending off bureaucratic groups who want to regulate colloidal silver into oblivion.

But as I mentioned in the longer blog post on this subject directly below, health freedom battles are never easily won. Our opponents are some of the biggest special interest groups and corporate interests in the world. And they have literally millions of members they can call on to support their position.

Nevertheless, right now we are actually winning this battle, thanks to the many hundreds if not thousands of individuals and organizations who answered the call when we first exposed the petition to regulate silver nanoparticles in early January. Once we demonstrated through the words of the petition sponsors that they are actually out to force EPA to regulate colloidal silver into oblivion, people who love their health freedom went into action.

But once we began winning the battle, the EPA suddenly agreed to extend the comments period deadline, giving the whacko environmental organizations like Friends of the Earth and special interest groups like ICTA an extra two months to garner comments in favor of their petition!

In other words, EPA saw the tide of battle turning against the petition to regulate silver particles as “pesticides,” and gave the petition sponsors a new lease on life. Why? Because EPA desperately wants to be able to regulate silver particles as “pesticides” under their antiquated FIFRA regulations, which allow them to ban any substance they deem to be “harmful to the environment.”

Therefore, we absolutely must keep up the pressure on the EPA.

Between now and March 20, 2009 (the new deadline for registering public comments on this issue) the rabid environmental organizations and special interest groups are going to flood the EPA with a host of new comments in favor of the petition, garnered from their millions of collective members. We must outgun them tit-for-tat – and then moreso -- with our own comments asking EPA to reject the petition.

During WWII, when General George S. Patton’s troops were outnumbered ten to one, Patton boldly told his troops, “This is not a problem. Each of you must simply kill ten of the enemy.” And they did!

Similarly, I must tell you in all earnestness, though we are vastly outnumbered by those who want to see silver particles regulated as “pesticides” (and who ultimately want to see colloidal silver banned) this is not a problem. All we have to do is take each of the five simple steps enumerated above, and thereby neutralize all of our opponent’s comments in favor of the petition.

For every one of their comments in favor of the petition, we must send in five of our own against the petition, and from all different directions, i.e., email, fax, snail mail, the online public comments system, and the special comments system set up by the Vitamin Lawyer at the Natural Solutions Foundation web site.

At the very least, start posting your comments to the new EPA public comments page for the petition.

This is how health freedom battles are won. Let’s double our efforts, and get this job done, so we can get back to the noble work of showing people how heal themselves the safe, natural way.

Regards,
S. Spencer Jones for http://www.lifeandhealthresearchgroup.com/

P.S. Don’t doubt for a minute that they are out to regulate colloidal silver into oblivion. Even the addendum to the petition to have EPA regulate silver particles as “pesticides” names the top four brands of colloidal silver products on the market today as being products that need immediate EPA regulation as “pesticides.” It also names many other lesser-known brands of colloidal silver as being in need of regulation. And it proclaims that the list of 200+ products in the petition addendum constitute “only the tip of the iceberg” of what they are out to regulate.

P.P.S. Learn how to make your own safe, natural, high-quality colloidal silver with a brand new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from http://www.thesilveredge.com/. That way, you’ll never be subject to a bureaucratic ban on colloidal silver products. You’ll always be able to make your own fresh, pure, high-quality colloidal silver quickly and easily, in the comfort, security and privacy of your own home, and for only about 36 cents a quart.

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http://www.ColloidalSilverSecretsVideo.com
http://www.UltimateColloidalSilverManual.com
http://www.TheSilverEdge.com
http://www.MicroParticleGenerator.com
http://www.ColloidalSilverCuresMRSA.com
http://www.LifeandHealthResearchGroup.com

Special Update on the Battle to Save Colloidal Silver From Regulation By the EPA

Special Update on the Battle to Save Colloidal Silver From Regulation By the EPA

I have some good news and some bad news regarding the petition by extremist environmentalists and other special interest groups to have silver nanoparticles (read: colloidal silver) regulated by the EPA as a "pesticide," which would ultimately result in a ban on the sale of colloidal silver products.

First the good news:

I’ve just been to the EPA web site and discovered that whereas public comments about the petition had been running ten to one in favor of it during the month of December when only the extremist environmental groups who sponsored it knew about it, the comments have been running a hundred to one against it ever since the colloidal silver and natural health communities have caught wind of this insidious plot.

That’s phenomenal. Obviously, the colloidal silver community and the natural health community have pulled together as one, standing in unison against this onerous and heavy-handed petition to regulate “silver nanoparticles.”

We are grateful to have been able to play a key role in alerting the colloidal silver and natural health communities to this stealth campaign to have the EPA regulate, and eventually ban, colloidal silver.

The outpouring of opposition to the petition has allowed the colloidal silver and natural health communities to overcome the advantage held by the extremist environmental groups like ICTA and Friends of the Earth who had been quietly stacking the EPA online comments system with “canned” comments from their members in favor of their own petition. They solicited these comments through slick email campaigns designed to scare their members into believing that “silver nanoparticles” pose an imminent and dire threat to the environment and need to be immediately regulated as "pesticides."

If you helped in this campaign by posting your comments against the ICTA petition to have the EPA regulate silver particles as "pesticides" through the EPA online comment system, or by sending emails or faxes to the EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson as we requested (see below), then please take a moment and give yourself a nice, big pat on the back. You are helping turn the tide in favor of colloidal silver by taking such an active part in this battle to stop the impending EPA regulation of so-called “silver nanoparticles.”

Now, here's the bad news:

Back in December, several of the extremist environmental organizations sponsoring this petition -- including ICTA and Friends of the Earth -- had formally requested the EPA to extend the comments deadline, so they could buy more time to muster up additional aid and support from the membership rosters of other like-minded environmental groups.

But as of early January, the EPA had basically ignored this request. After all, there was simply no reason to extend the comments deadline when the comments were already running ten to one in favor of the petition. It looked like a slam-dunk sure-thing that the EPA would easily be able to approve the petition, and begin regulating silver nanoparticles out of existence for all but the largest of corporate financial interests who could afford the millions of dollars worth of environmental impact reports required by EPA in order to sell products containing silver nanoparticles.

Then, thanks largely to our efforts to alert the colloidal silver community and the natural health community to this plot, the tide of public sentiment turned dramatically against the petition. Suddenly public comments on the EPA web site were running over 100 to one against the petition. And the EPA saw their slam-dunk sure-thing disappearing right before their eyes. After all, without broad public support, it would be very difficult for the EPA to approve the petition giving the agency the broad new powers to regulate silver particles.

So within a matter of just a few short days after hundreds of new comments starting pouring in against the petition, the EPA rapidly switched gears and approved the earlier request by ICTA and Friends of the Earth to extend the comments deadline.

Why?

It is obvious that the EPA had witnessed how the colloidal silver and natural health communities have pulled together in a massive show of opposition to the petition to have silver nanoparticles regulated as a "pesticide."

EPA knew that with public comments suddenly running more than 100 to one against the petition, they were going to have to give their environmentalist cronies more time to reach multitudes of like-minded environmentalists worldwide, so they could come to the EPA web site to comment in favor of the petition. After all, what the EPA wants is to become the sole arbitrator of who gets to sell products containing silver particles, and who doesn’t.

Unfortunately, if the rabid environmentalists are allowed to regain the upper hand by soliciting tons of additional comments in favor of the petition from their fellow environmental groups worldwide, it will be a disaster for anyone who wants widespread availability of colloidal silver to continue.

Why Freedom of Consumer Choice Will Be a Distant Memory

Indeed, freedom of consumer choice will be all but a distant memory in regards to colloidal silver products. After all, once EPA begins regulating silver nanoparticles as a "pesticide," their next step will be to require colloidal silver manufacturers to prove that their product cannot harm “ecologically sensitive microbes” in the environment, as documented on this web page.

There are probably only a small handful of colloidal silver manufacturer on the face of the earth – if any – who can afford the millions of dollars in testing and environmental impact reports the EPA will require. So without a doubt, your favorite brand of colloidal silver will probably be gone forever if the EPA approves this petition and begins regulating silver nanoparticles as “pesticides.”

Here’s the key to understanding this whole scheme: If this petition is granted by the EPA, only the wealthiest corporate interests that are willing to kow-tow to EPA regulatory demands and spend millions of dollars on “environmental impact” reports will be able to sell products that contain silver nanoparticles.

Do you think these big corporate interests will sell colloidal silver? Not on your life. Once safe, natural and relatively inexpensive colloidal silver is taken off the market by the EPA, the big corporate interests will patent products containing engineered silver nanoparticles, and you will only be able to get therapeutic silver products by doctor’s prescription.

Exactly What The EPA Wants

This is exactly what the EPA wants, i.e., to transfer control of the sale of silver nanoparticles from the hundreds of colloidal silver vendors in existence today, to a small handful of big corporate interests.

And, of course, the EPA will become the sole arbitrator over who can sell products containing silver nanoparticles and who can't. Public access to safe, natural colloidal silver will be a thing of the past. It's that simple. That's their game-plan.

So What’s Happening Right Now?

Right now the extremist environmental and special interest groups like ICTA and Friends of the Earth are gearing up to have their like-minded environmental groups begin pouring their support behind the petition to have EPA regulate silver as an environmentally “dangerous pesticide.” They are claiming that if silver isn't immediately regulated by EPA as a "pesticide" the ecology and the environment as a whole will face irreparable and permanent damage.

That is of course a total crock. Anyone with an ounce of common sense knows that silver nanoparticles can’t harm the ecology when returned to the environment. Why? Because the tiny silver particles rapidly bond with other natural elements in the environment, such as minerals, mineral salts and other substances. This bonding, also known as “agglomeration,” destroys the nano-scale properties of the tiny silver particles and renders them essentially inert.

In other words, the silver simply returns to the environment it originally came from as another harmless mineral substance. The idea that it can somehow "harm the environment" or poses an “imminent threat to the environment” is ludicrous at face value. It is the worst kind of junk science imaginable. But like most junk science, it serves Big Corporate interests very well.

Nasty Tactics?

Worse yet, the EPA has apparently resorted to using some nasty tactics in order to stop the tide of public comments coming in against the petition to regulate silver as a “pesticide.”

While theEPA has indeed extended the public comments deadline on the petition to March 20 at the behest of the environmental groups behind it, they have simultaneously disabled the direct link to allow comments on the EPA web site – a link which we had discovered and were instrumental in having posted on numerous colloidal silver and natural health web sites during the first week of January after we began alerting the colloidal silver community and the natural health community to this insidious plot to regulate silver nanoparticles as a “pesticide.”

By disabling the direct link to the EPA comments section for this petition, hundreds if not thousands of new public comments from the colloidal silver community and natural health community have effectively been prevented from being posted.

Meanwhile, the rabid environmental groups are busy collecting additional public comments in favor of the petition. They are using a slick email and web site-based campaign that allows them to collect and hold onto the comments for later dispersal.

Our best guess is that once the public comments link on the EPA web site is restored, probably sometime just before the new deadline of March 20, these nutcase environmentalists intend to bombard the EPA comments system with a massive new barrage of comments they've collected in favor of the petition to regulate silver particles as “pesticides.”

Their goal is to turn the tide of comments back in favor of the petition. And then the EPA can legitimately say that they have fairly and carefully weighed public opinion, and have decided to regulate silver nanoparticles as “pesticides.” That will be the beginning of the end for the public commercial sale of colloidal silver.

What We’re Doing and What YOU Can Do to Help Right Now…

First, we are demanding that the EPA restore access to the public link that allows everyone to post comments on the EPA web site RIGHT NOW, rather than waiting until the rabid environmental groups gather enough new comments to stack the deck in favor of the petition once again, just as they did in the beginning.

Second, we are requesting that everyone in the colloidal silver and natural health communities continue to put massive pressure on the EPA through every means possible with polite and respectful comments letting them know that you are not happy about the petition to regulate silver particles as “pesticides,” and would like them to reject it.

How to Call The EPA to Help Get the Public Comments Link Restored

If you would like to help us in demanding that the public link be restored for comments on the EPA web site, you can call the toll-free EPA “Help Line” at 1-877-378-5457, and politely and respectfully request that they restore the comments link for Docket #EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0650, also known as the “Petition for Rulemaking Requesting EPA Regulate Nanoscale Silver Products as Pesticides.”

Special request: Please, as soon as anyone reading this article finds out that a public link to the EPA comments system for this petition has been restored, or that a brand new link has been instituted, let us know by emailing us the specific link at info@TheSilverEdge.com. That way, we can get the word out to the rest of the colloidal silver community and natural health community that a new public comments link is available.

Also, if you call the EPA “Help Line” number above and find out that the comments link has already been restored, or that a new link has been put up, be sure to thank them. Then start posting comments on the EPA web site right away, as well as following through with the three crucial steps outlined below. It is absolutely essential that we act decisively and yes, even relentlessly at this point. We must make sure the EPA knows that the public is against this petition to regulate silver particles as “pesticides.”

How to Help Us Continue Putting Pressure on the EPA to Reject the Petition

In the meantime, while we are continuing to put pressure on the EPA to restore the public comments link on their web site for the petition, you can help us put additional pressure on the EPA to reject the petition by taking the following three simple but vital steps:

First, email EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson with your comments against the petition to have silver regulated as a “pesticide.” His email address is: johnson.stephen@epa.gov

If you have already emailed him in the recent past, please do so again. And tell all of your like-minded friends to do so, too. This is critical.

Secondly, fax your comments to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, at his Washington DC fax number: (202)-501-1450. Again, if you have already faxed him, do so again. And again. And again. We need a flood of emails and faxes going to this man, telling him politely but in no uncertain terms that he needs to reject the petition to regulate silver particles as “pesticides.”

Third, send a letter to the Washington DC office of EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson. His address is as follows:

Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P)
ATTN: Administrator Stephen Johnson
Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20460-0001

Don’t Forget To Include the Following Vital Information:

All comments to the EPA – whether you make them by email, fax, snail mail or through the public comments section of their web site once it is restored -- must reference the “Petition for Rulemaking Requesting EPA Regulate Nanoscale Silver Products as Pesticides,” and must also reference Docket # EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0650.

What to Do If You Don’t Know What to Say…

If you don’t know what to say in your comments, here’s some suggested text:

Dear EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson:

I am writing in reference to Docket # EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0650, also known as the “Petition for Rulemaking Requesting EPA Regulate Nanoscale Silver Products as Pesticides”

I respectfully request that you reject this petition, for the following three reasons:

One: There is no documented evidence of any harm having ever been caused to the environment from silver nanoparticles

Two: Several valid studies by reputable science-based organizations have already documented that no harm to the environment from silver nanoparticles can occur at present or projected future levels (1,2)

Three: ICTA’s entire case for the petition is based upon nothing more than raw and sensationalistic speculation extrapolated from a few spotty laboratory studies whose data was apparently skewed to produce the results they wanted.

Since only lab studies have been used to justify ICTA’s flimsy position that silver nanoparticles are harming the environment, and since no true environmental studies have demonstrated such alleged harm, there is simply no reason to allow ICTA and their cohorts to continue this charade against products containing silver nanoparticles.

As the recent study by Dr. George Maass has demonstrated (3), silver nanoparticles simply cannot harm the ecology when returned to the environment because the tiny particles rapidly bond with other elements in the environment. This in turn destroys their nano-scale properties, rendering them inert. In short, silver nanoparticles simply return to the environment as another harmless mineral substance.

Since EPA is supposed to be an evidence-based agency and there is no evidence whatsoever to demonstrate the erroneous and shrill claims of ICTA and its counterparts against products containing nanosilver, please reject and dismiss this petition and stop wasting taxpayer monies on this issue.

EPA already has sufficient authority under FIFRA to regulate substances demonstrated to cause harm to the environment. This additional proposed regulation is superfluous and unnecessary, and a complete waste of taxpayer funds.

Regards,
(sign your own name and include the below cross-reference numbers)

References:

1.) Environ Sci Technol. 2008 Jun 1;42(11):4133-9.
2.) Environ Sci Technol. 2008 Jun 15;42(12):4447-53.
3.) http://www.silver-colloids.com/Papers/SilverNoThreat.pdf

Saying It In Your Own Words Is Always Best

Of course, comments in your own words are always better than “canned” comments like the one above. So please express yourself in your own words if time permits and you have the unction to do so. Otherwise, be sure to send the above comment, with your own signature. Or feel free to derive your own comments from the above letter.

By the way, if you own a company or belong to a natural health-related organization, please be sure to make your comments in your own name as well as in the name of your company or organization. Adding your company or organization name to your comments gives credibility to your response. And that will help offset some of the comments from the "heavy hitter" organizations the environmentalist groups are currently lining up in support of this disastrous petition to have silver nanoparticles regulated as “pesticides.”

It’s Up to You…

The ball is in your court. Whether or not colloidal silver will be regulated into oblivion at the behest of rabid environmentalists who want the world to believe that silver particles represent some kind of imminent threat to the environment is in your hands.

Please do your part and help us flood the EPA over the next few weeks -- in fact, all of the way up to March 20 -- with an even greater barrage of comments against this petition than we managed to generate during the first few weeks of January before the EPA so suddenly and unexpectedly extended the comments deadline at the behest of their environmentalist cronies.

If we fail to continue to act at this point, it will give EPA and the environmental groups exactly what they have want, i.e., enough time to stack the public comments with additional requests to have the EPA regulate silver particles as “pesticides.”

We must continue to act quickly and decisively. This is how health freedom battles are won.

I won’t kid you. It’s not going to be an easy battle, because the organizations we are up against are large and well-organized, and have huge membership bases. And the EPA already favors them, and has purposely given them more time to solicit comments favorable to their own petition to have the EPA regulate silver particles as "pesticides.

But we have already shown that we can shake them to the core with a barrage of our own public comments. And just as little David slew Goliath with a single smooth stone, we too can take down the environmentalist “Goliaths’ with our individual comments against the petition to regulate silver as a “pesticide.”

We simply must continue to act in unison and with deliberation and determination, straight through to the new deadline of March 20th. To help, just follow the simple steps outlined above.

Finally, be sure to pass this information along to your like-minded friends and colleagues, so they can help, too.

Regards,
S. Spencer Jones,
http://www.lifeandhealthresearchgroup.com/
http://www.thesilveredge.com/

P.S. While I truly believe we can win this battle, please keep in mind that once you own the means of colloidal silver production, no one can ever take your colloidal silver away from you, no matter how many onerous regulations they pass.

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If you are new to colloidal silver usage, you may want to further educate yourself. There are dozens of extremely helpful articles about colloidal silver usage on this very blog site (i.e., http://www.ColloidalSilverSecrets.blogspot.com/). And it’s all FREE. So dig in and start reading today.

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Important Links:

http://www.ColloidalSilverSecretsVideo.com
http://www.UltimateColloidalSilverManual.com
http://www.TheSilverEdge.com
http://www.MicroParticleGenerator.com
http://www.ColloidalSilverCuresMRSA.com
http://www.LifeandHealthResearchGroup.com