I got a call from the owner of Royal Nature today and must say I am impressed with their customer service. Ron explained how plastic can on rare occassions get into their salt which makes perfect sense to me. First the salt is made in just 300 kilogram batches so they can maintain the highest quality, to put it in perspective this equates to about 13 buckets per batch. The chemicals are weighed and kept in plastic bags to keep the humidity out and the various bags are then dumped into the mixer manually by a worker. This is where the "shredded plastic" can come into play. Occasionally when the worker is emptying a bag of salt chemicals into the mixer he can let the bag hang a bit too low & the bag gets hit by the mixer blade and puts a few shreds of plastic into the mix. The bags are clean plastic and will cause no harm whatsoever to the salt mix but obviously doesn't look good if there is no understanding of how it happens. Has this happened before, yes---- will it happen again--- more than likely. Is the actual salt itself still the best???? Hell yeah!! If Royal Nature made salt in batches measured in tons like most other manufactures any plastic accidently introduced into the mix would be dispersed over hundreds of buckets but since their batches are so small to guarantee quality control when a bag gets shredded into the mix it's possible that pieces of it can end up in all 13 buckets. Does it hurt anything? Not a chance!
Royal Nature is a fantastic salt that mixes cleaner & faster than any other I've ever used bar none & has parameters that come the closest to natural sea water of anything else on the market. I recently read a thread on another board where someone used some Royal Nature but then complained that after dosing potasium as he normally did with RBS that the K was too high. My response to that is Isn't it better to use a salt where you don't have to spend a fortune on K balance because the salt has the proper levels already? That is a good thing in my humble opinion.
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Greg
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