The Mode of Action of Sodium Chlorite
22nd September 2007 by Rett Anderson Posted in MMS Information
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The chemistry & mode of action of acidified sodium chlorite
C. C. WARF, JR., Alcide Corp., 8561 154th Ave. N.E., Redmond, WA 98052 and G. K. Kemp, Alcide Corporation, 8561 154th Avenue NE, Redmond, WA 98052.
Acidified Sodium Chlorite (ASC) is approved by the FDA (21 CFR 173.325) as a ‘secondary direct food additive permitted in food for human consumption’ specifically as an antimicrobial intervention treatment for poultry carcasses, poultry carcass parts, red meat carcasses, red meat parts and organs, seafood, and raw agricultural commodities.
ASC is often confused with chlorine dioxide (ClO2), also approved by the FDA (21 CFR 173.300) as a secondary direct food additive largely because solutions ASC can, under certain conditions, generate small quantities of chlorine dioxide. However, by judicious selection of reaction parameters (nature and concentration of activating acid, chlorite concentration, catalysts, total titratable acidity) chlorine dioxide formation is typically minimized in true ASC solutions. ASC is a highly effective, broad spectrum antimicrobial, which is produced by lowering the pH of a solution of sodium chlorite into the 2.5 to 3.2 range with any GRAS acid.
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ASC chemistry is principally that of chlorous acid (HClO2), which is the metastable oxychlorine species, which forms on acidification of chlorite. Once formed, chlorous acid gradually decomposes to form chlorate ion, chlorine dioxide, and chloride ion. It is hypothesized that the mode of action of ASC derives from the uncharged chlorous acid, which is able to penetrate bacterial cell walls and disrupt protein synthesis by virtue of its reaction with sulfhydryl, sulfide, and disulfide containing amino acids and nucleotides. The undissociated acid is thought to facilitate proton leakage into cells and thereby increase energy output of the cells to maintain their normal internal pH thereby also adversely affecting amino acid transport. Iodometric titration and UV spectroscopic methods must be used to allow an accurate determination of the active concentrations present in an ASC solution and to differentiate them from typical chlorine dioxide generating systems.
Session 91, Acidified sodium chlorite - an antimicrobial intervention for the food industry
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM, 2001-06-27 Room 383
2001 IFT Annual Meeting - New Orleans, Louisiana ..
February 27th, 2008 at 12:35 am
so is activated mms acidified sodium chlorite or clhorine dioxoxde?
one is dangerous and the other is not? not sure — why is this above post regarding acidified sodium chlorite? are we getting that of chlorine dioxide an what is the difference?
February 27th, 2008 at 7:20 am
When sodium chlorite is mixed with an acidic ph solution chloride dioxide is formed. It is chloride dioxide that kills pathogens.
In previous stabilized oxygen products it is now assumed that stomach acid provided for this chemical reaction. Jim Humble found that providing for this reaction prior to ingestion provided for a more active pathogen killing product, hence you have the MMS protocol.
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:27 am
Rett Anderson cited the study below which I passed on to my sceptic friend. He said so what! HIV outside the body can be killed by common household chemicals, even soap and water. However, it’s a very different matter in the body. My friend maintains only people who take retroviral drugs survive.
So why indeed was this study carried out if it was already known that common chemicals killed HIV outside the body?
1: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 1993 Sep;14(9):527-9. PUBMED
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April 3rd, 2008 at 7:07 am
It is not true that only people who take retroviral drugs survive. Your friend is brainwashed.
In vitro studies are a common first step in researching a drugs potential.
I know a young man who is doing very well so far on MMS for his HIV. He had been off of retroviral drugs for several months before he started MMS because he said they were making him too sick. I will report more on this case as I find out. In his last lab his T cells were normal and his viral load count was greatly improved at 120. The doctors were astounded, he reports.