I have not used Stadex, but have experience with wheat paste. The starch attracts not only fungus but also minute insects that eventually destroy the paper product.

Kajal Ghoshroy

>From: Lisa Shockley <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: wheat starch paste
>Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:58:00 -0500
>
>Here is a question for those with paper conservation experience.
>
>In my training and in practice, I've always cooked up batches of
>paste.
>Now, I am ready to buy more, and I was reading about an instant
>paste,
>brand name Stadex. This almost sounds too good to be true to me. It
>does
>have an added fungicide, and I don't know specifically what that is.
>
>Has anyone used this product with rice paper to repair documents?
>Any
>opinions either way?
>
>Lisa
>
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>Lisa Shockley
>Collections Technician, Union Station, Kansas City
>KC Museum/Science City
>
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