how to know when MMS has gone bad?

maybe it happened because you used regular water to mix? or had that been sitting around in the heat for a while?

inactivated MMS in a bottle in the dark, last seven years according to Jim Humble.
MMS works in any water including filthy jungle water also according to Jim.
So...
maybe directions fr making MMS need to be reviewed.
MMS add warm water approx 145F to powder, stir till disolved. After 24 hours pour of skum at top and remove sediment at bottom is what I recall Jims process to be.

hi all

i dont think the problem was anything i did, i only ever use distilled water i have my own distil;ler, and mms it was straight from the fridge. the supplier said they had had complaints from other and reckon citric was probably to old and are replacing it with a new batch

i have jims book and read that about mms lasting years if not activated. i am now looking around for a supplier in theuk of hci 4%.

thanks for all your help

jeff

I poured off the water out of the mixture that didn't dissolve the mms, left with sludge of mms, then I came back to the lake area where the water is really soft, the mms had hardened up solid, I put new soft water into the bottle and it dissolved the mms within a minute, now I have clear pure mms.

really good news that it lasts for so long!

I can understand how you can use puddle water! no big deal that it is dirty.

I'm glad you got yours to work - you REALLY should be testing it for the ppms to know what you have. Puddle water would, IMHO, be a really bad idea, because the MMS would work on killing the pathogens in the water, and not on the pathogens in you. (It is a water purifier, after all.)

what is ppms? what is the test? if it's that strip...no I didn't bring a pack of them, I brought baggies of sodium chlorite that I had weighed at home, each bag needs to be mixed with 1/3 cup water.

so, you think that the solution would only work for one thing and then it dies off?
It's strong enough to withstand lemon juice as an activator but not strong enough to withstand dirty water?

the "lake water" I am using is filtered. However, when I leave and the people here don't have access to my hotel room to get the filtered lake water they will have to use the water they get from buckets they get at the lake. There's a well, but it's a heafty walk up a hill, I would think it is hard water....guess I could try to mix it and see if it dissolves. I've decided that sodium chlorite is a great test to see if your water is hard!