Being in the health industry and knowing what adverse health issues are associated with Chlorine, I prefer to take my chances with mineral products to treat my water. I have been a pool/spa owner for over 20 years and never had an issue with bacterial infections while using mineral products. I have filtration systems to remove the chlorine from the water I drink and have a system that removes it from my shower. I do this for a very good reason, and it's for my health.
The so called experts on here can tout Chlorine use all they want but when it comes to your health you should investigate what soaking and breathing in chlorine fumes can do to your health. Here's an exert from an article regarding Chlorine, this is one of many ...
In 1964, the World Health Organization estimated that 80% of all cancers are due to synthetic carcinogens. One group of dangerous chemicals, organochlorines, is a class of industrial agents made of chlorine and carbon. The combination is basically indestructible making it an ideal medium for industry.
Organochlorines do not occur in nature. They are used to manufacture plastic and pesticides. The end products, the by-products, and the production process all expose humans to organochlorines. Paper, for example. Pulp and paper industries use chlorine bleaches to whiten paper. The process of bleaching (chlorine) paper (carbon) releases dioxin, one of the most deadly substances on earth. According to Greenpeace, there is no such thing as a safe level of dioxin.
Mounting evidence suggests that organochlorines are persistent in the environment and in the human body. They are bio-accumulative, increasing in toxicity and magnitude as they move up the food chain. WHAT DO YOU THINK SOAKING IN YOUR SPA BREATHING AND SOAKING IN CHLORINE DOES TO YOU BODY?
Greenpeace released a comprehensive report in 1993 entitled Chlorine, Human Health and the Environment: the Breast Cancer Warning. Cited are 177 organochlorines found in tissues of human and animals: 177 that simply did not exist 50 years ago.
Women's bodies are particularly vulnerable to organochlorines because these chemicals accumulate in fatty cells in the breast and because they mimic estrogen causing abnormal cell reproduction.
Profit Motive Could it be a cover up? Read the label on a bottle of bleach and tell me what you think?
"To fully understand the big picture," says WHAN's Maia Syfers, "you have to come from the point of view that we live in a free enterprise, profit-oriented society."
First manufactured around the turn of the century, organochlorine production escalated during World War II. When the war ended, chemical companies turned to the domestic market. During the 50s, 60s, and 70s, Dow Chemical, Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI, to Europe what Dow is the US), Occidental Chemical and the like made millions.
When scientists started making connections between cancer and chemicalization in the early 60s, the industry rebuffed environmental regulations placing profitability above all else. As our health industry is moving closer to a for-profit model, so has the cancer establishment. For the full article click the link below or copy and paste it in your URL. I can't believe people arguing over the safety of Chlorine and the advantages using it has over mineral products because it's EPA approved and it has faster kill rates ... do those faster kill rates include us humans?http://www.fwhc.org/health/nocure.htm