If the special bacteria in Alken Clear-Flo reproduce in the field, why isn one dose sufficient?
Fresh from the pail, each strain of Alken Clear-Flo bacteria has been specially adapted to prefer specific difficult-to-degrade wastes. After adapting the strains to a specific purpose, Alken-Murray blends the strains in a particular formula to suit the intended task. Without Alken-Murray’s artificial selection process, each succeeding generation (after the first 10) reverts more and more toward the “wild”, again, preferring simpler carbon sources, such as sugars, found in the waste stream. In other words, after “breeding” in a waste stream with a low concentration of the target substance, for 10 or more generations, the descendants of Alken Clear-Flo become more and more indistinguishable from the wild population. Of course, if the waste stream is highly concentrated with the target substance, and the waste flow is fairly constant, the maintenance dose can be cut back until it is miniscule. A few competitors claim that their products are also selectively adapted and that their strains
