This is why it is always a good idea to eat lots of garlic!
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White
When a house has a fire it is suggested to put out saucers of vanilla which somehow neutralizes the odor.
I wonder if putting a smelly film holder into a box with an open jar of vanilla would cure the problem.
There are many products/substances alleged to "neutralize" odors. They don't. Instead, they attempt to mask the offensive odor with their own. For people having low olfactory thresholds, that simply results in two smells, one that reeks and another which, while potentially pleasant on its own, is now negatively associated with the offensive one.
Just throwing this out there -- I wonder if a shipment got gassed with some sort of insecticide or such (perhaps due to food items in the same shipment, or some such)...and there was a reaction with the plastic to cause it to start breaking down and creating a by-product that causes the odor (yet leaving the material structually sound).
I suspect the more likely explanation is that, when Toyo moved production of its film holder parts to China, the material used transitioned to one just as adulterated as many items manufactured there. This problem has been around so long and is so consistent that contamination by an insecticide used in shipping cannot explain it.
While the vast preponderance of items imported from China are "Walmart junk," some otherwise high-quality Chinese products can also found. Unfortunately, almost all of them stink too. A shame really, since adherence to proper material standards could enable China to become "the new Japan." It doesn't yet seem to be happening.
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