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November 23, 2011 11:46 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/5A60Tok-xoQ/popular-mom-and-pop-water-puri.html
Popular Mom-and-pop water purification business shuttered by DEA's meth-hunting "knotheads"
Here's a Mercury News profile of Bob Wallace, an 88-year-old chemist who started a very successful cottage business selling iodine crystals under the "Polar Pure" brand new, used by hikers and disaster relief workers for water purification. Wallace has been put out of business by the Drug Enforcement Agency, who say they once busted a [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/5A60Tok-xoQ/popular-mom-and-pop-water-puri.html
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