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Archive for December 21, 2006
Tests prove sulphur feed poisoning
December 21, 2006 by Walter Schneider.
Tests prove sulphur feed poisoning
Bob Ritter of Cincinnati said both an autopsy on one of his calves and testing of feed samples came up positive for a very high level of sulphur. …Sulfuric acid is used in the process to make ethanol and a by-product is corn gluten and what is called distilled grain. They are used as livestock feed.
Ritter said his sick calves became lethargic and appeared to be in a daze, but some would fight when he tried doctoring them. Some of his other calves had shoved their heads against fences until they hung themselves or dropped.
The poisoning is known as polioencephalomalacia….
(Full Story at dailyiowegian.com)
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See also: Recent cattle problems linked to by-product feeds; Breakthrough in ‘miniature’ cattle case, and Sulfur in Beef Cattle Mineral Nutrition
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New fuel policy in Vietnam to benefit foreign refiners
December 21, 2006 by Walter Schneider.
Exxon Mobil and China Petroleum & Chemical, or Sinopec, will likely benefit from demand for cleaner burning fuel in Vietnam after the country cuts the amount of sulfur allowed in diesel, analysts said.
Vietnam National Petroleum and Saigon Petroleum will have to pay more for diesel imports after the acceptable level of sulfur, a pollutant, was reduced by half to 0.25 percent. *
Full Story at THANHNIENNEWS.com
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* Note by folc.ca: That will be a reduction to 400 ppm compared to the new North-American standard for ultra-low-sulphur diesel of 15 ppm. Obviously Exxon Mobil and Sinopec find it is a lot cheaper for them to dispose of their waste sulphur through polluting the Vietnamese environment with SO2 emissions than to clean up their act.
The downside of that news item of course is that a lot more waste sulphur will be added to the world’s excess waste sulphur inventory, thereby lessening the market potential for Alberta’s waste sulphur and increasing the probability that waste sulphur will be stored in Lamont County.
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