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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">As a non-scientist but active food processor, they're very different in composition. Wood vinegar is generally 10% acetic acid and can be made from any number of things, while supermarket food grade white vinegar is 5% and often from apples. Wood vinegar is used to improve soil and plant growth in organic farming/orchards, especially since they can distill they're own. <a href="http://www.woodvinegar.org/wood-vinegar.html">http://www.woodvinegar.org/wood-vinegar.html</a>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Jan Steiner</span>
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On 10/23/2021 6:01 PM Marc Imlay <ialm@erols.com> wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">What is the difference between vinegar we buy at the grocery store and Wood vinegar? Marc</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>From:</strong> MAIPC <maipc-bounces@lists.maipc.org> <strong>On Behalf Of </strong>Richard Johnstone<br><strong>Sent:</strong> Saturday, October 23, 2021 1:18 PM<br><strong>To:</strong> Susan Gitlin <susan.mclaughlin@alumni.stanford.edu><br><strong>Cc:</strong> MAIPC Listserve <maipc@lists.maipc.org><br><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [MAIPC] Article on wood vinegar and effectiveness on perilla mint & others</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Susan,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Vinegar is often proposed as an herbicide alternative and touted as being safer and earth friendly than synthetic products. However, in the United States herbicides approved for use by our EPA have undergone years of testing costing millions of dollars and are regulated under FIFRA. It’s a violation of that federal law to take a product approved for other uses and apply that as an herbicide on your own. It may well work on certain plants but it hasn’t undergone testing as to how it may affect other creatures, soil, water or degradation byproducts. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">On Oct 23, 2021, at 8:27 AM, Susan Gitlin <<a href="mailto:susan.mclaughlin@alumni.stanford.edu">susan.mclaughlin@alumni.stanford.edu</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0926669021008700" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0926669021008700</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'd be interested in your thoughts on this, including, of course, impacts on the soil.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">--Susan</p>
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