When a Particle is really a Cluster, a Dispersion a Suspension and there is no Colloid is in sight, you have the recipe for Colloidal Silver that is not a Colloid either
Little headway has been made for the past eighty years, but with the rise of infectious diseases immune to most of our arsenal of antibiotics, alternative and less vulnerable strategies have to be found. Accordingly the race is on to find a formidable adversary capable of eradicating the so-called biofilm protected bacterial colonies that are on the increase. Strangely enough the material most likely to have any chance of success has been banned by the Australian Government in 2003. This Legislation, enacted by the Therapeutic Goods Act (TGA) prohibits the so-called colloidal silver to be advertised and/or recommended as a medicine. Instead the only reference that can be made about this material is to name it a??TREATED WATERa??. The reason for the introduction of this Legislation lies clearly in the domain of that part of the scientific community not having bothered to create standards and clarity as to what actually constitutes nanometre sized atomic silver clusters in suspension