I used to use citric acid when making homemade wines.
The last packet that I bought was from Boots the Chemist.
When I asked the assistant where I would find it she went away to ask the pharmacist. Then followed a lot of peeping around the corner at me by the chemist and a discussion going on between them.
Eventually he emerged from his hideaway and courteously grilled me as to what it was for and how it affected the wine making.
He eventually explained that it is used in preparing illegal substances by drug addicts, and that was what all the quizzing was about.
I must have looked respectable as he eventually supplied me with it.
So do not be surprised if you get quizzed when buying some in the future.
Cheers.
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