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IODINE SANITIZING WATER WASH: A FAILED STRATEGY FOR
FORMALDEHYDE REPLACEMENT IN TRADITIONAL EMBALMING.
by: James H. Bedino, Chemist/Director of Research The Champion Company

 

Iodine sanitizing washes are the most recent attempts as a substitute for traditional formaldehyde arterial injection and cavity treatment. They definitely achieve the intended goal of sanitation action, but they will be profoundly unadopted and rejected as a replacement for traditional, rockhard, dehydration style formaldehyde embalming. The results are nowhere close to what a traditionalist embalmer expects and demands in embalming results. What is iodine anyway, and how would it work and perform in embalming? What is the implications of the eventual banning of formaldehyde embalming in Europe? Will this ever be a natural/ green alternative? What formaldehyde replacement strategies do and will work? These and other questions will be answered in our current article. As always, brutal honesty and unapologetic commentary abounds. Be certain to read the end of this article, wherein I address and attest to these very things.

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