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Re: Potassium Iodide Stock

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several German chemical companies make the majority of vitamin supplement powders that are pilled and marketed by others, and these companies are so large that no one supplement demand spike is going to impact their bottom line. the scare profits won't come from the powder makers who generally sell by a set margin above production costs, rather the marketers and resellers that set finished goods prices and gouge customers for as long as the shortages and panic exist. Months from now I expect to read about a lot of fraud from these nuke pills as anyone can buy a piller machine, stuff tablets with chalk, and say they are Iodide pills - there is no consumer protection or quality control whatsoever in the supplement market. basically, the only rule is - as long as the ingredients are not toxic, you can claim and sell pretty much whatever you like in pill form. BTW if you can't find Iodide, seaweed flakes and powders made from Kelp and Dulse offer the same type or protection in a less concentrated form, and no - there is no seaweed pure play either

Your comment about seaweed flakes and kelp is very interesting. Both are common in Japanese diets but not for us Americans.

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»www.europac.net/media/video_blog
I am more than a bit scared

Iodine 131 only has a half life of 8.02 days. By the time the companies you invest in ramped up production, the threat would have already passed

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Iodine-129 is the problem from reactors,
Iodine-131 is from medical applications.

update: I stand corrected - 129 is the common fallout danger, and the 8 day half life means by the time it comes to the USA is may be benign. the greater danger comes from Cesium-137 with a 30 year half life, and is the current problem around western Europe since Chernobyl. other fallout isotopes may include iodine-132, tellurium-132 xenon-133.

it's worth noting that Iodide blocks the body's absorption of only one of several nuclear isotopes getting out into the environment. there really is no way to block them all - that's why the hero's trying to submerge the fuel rodes in Japan can only work near the plant for under an hour at a time. then there's the gama rays glowing off the rods themselves, but let's not get too sidetracked here. best to stay on investment plays on this thread. there are plenty of other parts of the forum discussing the science, politics, and human drama of it all - we should stick to the economics here.

anyone got a pure Salt play?
»www.latimes.com/news/la-fg-china···rack=rss

BTW, I did have an idea for a pure play we can discuss. we all know food prices and food producers are going up, but it occurred to me that since Japan's fish & rice economy will be severely effected by these multiple disasters, that they will need to import more animal protein and grains like poultry and corn. so companies like Tyson and Monsanto should do even better in coming years, prompting food prices in USA to rise even faster than before.

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one of the better bloggers regarding this crisis;
»southwerk.wordpress.com/
a bit alarmist, but at least he's not misleading.