Thank you so much for your knowledgable article and all the information regarding Mercurochrome. I couldn’t figure out why I haven’t been able to find. No iodine either only Betadine. I liked Mercurochrome because it was effective and didn’t sting like iodine. Wonderful and informative place you have here. I really like it.
Presumably you are referring to this column? It’s good to give a link so we all know what we’re talking about from Post 1.
Bumped because the article’s back on the front page.
Cecil referred to “the so-called GRAS (generally recognized etc) list.” What does the AS stand for in that acronym?
Ah, thanks. Wiki didn’t have that.
Wiki, meet Google.
Don’t remember Mercurochrome when I was a kid. My doctor used Gentian Violet (very popular I think in WWI and WWII). I asked her in the 70’s why mercurochrome had become more popular than gentian violet, and she suggested that it was because gentian violet was more noticable.
No Wiki+Google needed. He used the expanded form of the acronym twice in the first paragraph 
Thank you!
I’ve always wondered what that stuff was. I remember having it applied in my mouth when I was ~5 and seeing my reflection in the doctor’s mirror.