From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Jishnu Mukerji  wrote:   
      
   >Meanwhile my slides which I am sure will last for 100 years also has   
   >fungus attacking them. It is a royal pain. So I am converting all of   
   >them to digital as fast as I can.   
      
   As I recall, there was a fungus in the emulsion, and there's a chemical   
   that "disinfects" the slides and would restore them. Don't toss 'em.   
      
   It was a problem unique to particular emulsions of Cruddychrome and   
   wouldn't affect film generally.   
      
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