B(a)P - 21-6-2024 at 14:02
In preparation for an elephants toothpaste demonstration that I will be doing at my children's school next week (among others), I last night went to
check on my potassium iodide stocks to make sure I had enough. Finding I was a little low and ever looking for an excuse to increase my chemicals on
hand, I jumped online to make a purchase.
To my surprise I found that both potassium and sodium iodide now need an End User Declaration. While the EUD is no big deal for me, as I fill them out
all of the time for both work and hobby purposes, it does have unfortunate ramification. You can no longer get iodides on ebay or amazon and the price
has more than doubled from what I can see.
I did some searching and couldn't find any new regs, guidelines or requirements that would cause this change. Are precursors to precursors now watched
in Aus? I will ask the companies that we do most of our purchasing through when I next speak to them, to find out what is driving this new
requirement.
When I say 'new' requirement, I haven't purchased an iodide salt for many years so this might not be something that has occurred recently. Curious if
anyone else is aware of what is behind the increase in the number of chemicals requiring and EUD?
charley1957 - 22-6-2024 at 05:27
When iodine became a lot harder to get, potassium iodide became a LOT more expensive than it used to be. So I guess precursors to precursors are
affected by the regulations too.