Re: dioxin and hcb in ferric chloride

[Alan Muller <amuller@dca.net>]

The ferric
>manufacturers purchase the majority of their ferric from steel mill that
>produce the product after cleaning the steel with HCL. My guess is a
>contaminated HCL stream purchased by the steel mills. Any data on
>contaminated HCL ?? Sources of the HCL (pesticide manufacturing???) . 
>
I don't know.  But, ferric cl has other sources, one of which is as a byproduct of titanium dioxide manufacture.  This has all manner of stuff in it, but mostly inorganic I'd assumed.

am