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calvin@enteract.com wrote:
> 
> The American Academy of Family Physicians and the American Academy of
> Allergy and Immunology both reccomend a a 3 percent tannic acid spray
> to make dust mite droppings less reactive and benzyl benzoate to kill
> dust mites.
> 
> However, I have called to track down where I can obtain tannic acid
> and benzyl benzoate without success.  Even my pharmist looks dumb upon
> 
> my asking - hmmm makes me think about her mixing my drugs.
> 
> I have obtained tannin from a brew your own beer store and assume that
> it has the proper acidic content ( although I would lke a better
> source).  I have not found a source for benzyl benzoate nor do I know
> the right  percentage to add to a water solution to make a spray for
> the carpet, and chairs, ect....
> 
> If you could help, I would breathe much better at the office.

One would naively suspect that the treatment is worse than the 
disease, however...

Get thee to an academic chemsitry library and pull "Chem Sources"  
for all suppliers of chemicals in North America or Europe, plus 
contact information.

In the near term,

40,304-0 Tannic Acid, ACS reagent 500g/$41.85
21,671-2 Tannic acid              500g/$22.46
B1,770-1 Benzyl Benzoate          1 kg/$23.70

Aldrich Chemical, http://www.sial.com/  aldrich@sial.com

Using said chemicals for purposes of human contact is a violation of 
Aldrich sales policy.  I hope you have some good patter for the War 
on Drugs (bust you for having a beaker), Haz-Mat ($100-250K for the 
chemicals' cleanup), and OSHA (which gets 80% of its operating 
budget from levied fines).

Have a nice day.

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