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Has anyone heard of people getting sick from star san? I have heard of a couple cases where it could be "suspected" in making people pretty ill with an acidic indigestion. But they were unsure if it was the star san and just dumped the beer. Anyone hear of anything similiar or know just how safe this stuff really is as a no rinse?

Star San is the restaurant industry standard for sanitzers and has been for many years. There can be no doubt the product is safe. RDWHAHB

I washed 2 cases of bottles by hand in a sink of Star San..most I got was really dry hands.

washing two cases and ingesting are totally seperate though. This guy said he mixed a "sanitization" amount of roughly 2.5 gallons to 1 oz (due to the large amount of foam) and then rinsed his tools and used it as a slosh around the carboy. He siphoned his beer in with no rinse and claims he got very sick for a couple days after with bad neasua and acid feeling in his throat. Any validity in that? It was the first I had heard.

ResQ wrote:washing two cases and ingesting are totally seperate though. This guy said he mixed a "sanitization" amount of roughly 2.5 gallons to 1 oz (due to the large amount of foam) and then rinsed his tools and used it as a slosh around the carboy. He siphoned his beer in with no rinse and claims he got very sick for a couple days after with bad neasua and acid feeling in his throat. Any validity in that? It was the first I had heard.

I know that Jamil has personally done a taste test where he drank high concentrations of Star San in water to see if it was detectable. Not only could he not taste it but he didn't get sick either.

ResQ wrote:washing two cases and ingesting are totally seperate though. This guy said he mixed a "sanitization" amount of roughly 2.5 gallons to 1 oz (due to the large amount of foam) and then rinsed his tools and used it as a slosh around the carboy. He siphoned his beer in with no rinse and claims he got very sick for a couple days after with bad neasua and acid feeling in his throat. Any validity in that? It was the first I had heard.

2.5 gallons/1 oz of star san sounds like a high conc. My directions say to add 1 oz to 5 gallons of distilled water and I have had no off issues.

I'm a moron and sucked a bunch of high concentrate star-san mix through a tubch of tubing I was trying to clean, got a good bit in my mouth and probably swallowed some and i'm still alive.

heh!