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Originally Posted by Bob
My interest piqued, I requested Mr. Google to direct me to the current whereabouts of the Safety Data Sheet for Ilfostop where I could peruse its contents at my leisure. The aforementioned document informs me that it is composed of 10-30% citric acid and 1-5% of a substance named 2-PHENOXYETHANOL which, Mr. Google informs me upon my further enquiry, is a bactericide. The SDS does not list the pH-sensitive dye which suggests it is considered non-toxic(ish) by Her Majesty's Inspector of Things-That-Can-Kill-You-Without-You-Realising.
(It's been a tiring few weeks ...)
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That explains things Bob.
I have started retaining my dilute Stop Bath from printing sessions, in the name of economy and the environment, for up to 5 print sessions.
I have not found any "freinds" growing in the solution, even through I may store it for perhaps up to 2 weeks in total.
I used to dump my stop bath at the end of each session because even concentrated citric stop bath in the bottle used to need filtering because of growths.
Martin