Hey Guys! Good Evening!!! Hope most of you had an excellent day and the start of a wonderful weekend? Anyway, received an awesome email from Joe Cerniglia. The email he sent is in regards to recent testing of the ointment pot/jar found on the island. Anyway, hope most of you find this exciting as it did me!
.....Randy...Hello!!! I thought you might like to have this news to share with others on the forum!
Evans Analytical Group in Syracuse, New York has reported today that 3.4 micrograms per liter of mercury was detected from the ointment pot (Artifact 2-9-s-1).
Results thus far are not yet fully complete, but I just got off the phone with Dr. Robert Isensee, a scientist at the lab, and he said that given the degradation to
be expected over time to elements such as mercury, he views this finding as good evidence that mercury contacted the glass via the jar's contents. (This is well
above atmospheric levels, and mercury is not an ingredient used to make glass.) There were 7 products we know that were sold in these ointment jars. Dr. C.H. Berry
Freckle Ointment is the only one of the seven that we know contained mercury. It is the only one likely to have contained mercury. I'd be interested in any discussion
this might generate.
What are the odds that the freckle ointment just happened to have 12% mercury and that this jar, which looks strikingly like a container of Dr. Berry's Freckle Ointment
just happened to have mercury on it, after decades of exposure to harsh heat, sun, wind, and rain? Best Wishes...Joe Cerniglia