Agreed... great article about glue. I didn't read the mad cow one 'cuz BSE is one of numerous reasons I'm glad I don't eat cows and I get sortta squeamish reading things like that sometimes and I just ate. Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN On Jan 8, 2008 3:26 PM, <annie at allthingspiano.com> wrote: > In response to the concern about hide glue and "mad cow" disease (BSE), I > decided to do a little research. American rendering plants use > solvent-based extraction processes, and hide glue is made by additionally > cooking the connective tissues, horn, hooves, and of course hide for long > times at relatively high heat. This combination is particularly effective > against the prions that cause BSE-type diseases in humans. > > British processing plants stopped using solvent-based extraction methods > during the 1990s, leading to several deaths among gardeners who handled > bone meal from infected animals. The other, later deaths appear to have > been due to eating meat from infected animals. See > http://cac.uvi.edu/staff/rc3/garden/madcow.html for more information. > > I also ran across this very lucid article on the virtues of hide glue v > PVA glue and thought it might be useful to others, as well -- > http://www.inthewoodshop.org/2005/hideglue.shtml > > Annie Grieshop > (who has gone through severe metal poisoning and takes these things pretty > seriously -- but also believes in verifying....) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080108/c7801082/attachment.html
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