It was an experiment / When using Inipol EAP 22 they were actually Spray 'n Washing the beaches with a glycol ether at 10% or more strength: Inipol EAP 22 was only 'technically' a fertilizer  * Today EPA has not allowed use of Inipol EAP 22; however, Corexit at 38% 2-butoxyethanol is allowed The health damage to those workers has never been looked into.   Even Those Not Working on the Beaches, were exposed to Inipol EAP 22 *   What really went wrong  was the amount of time workers were exposed  and inadequate protection . . .  and the hazards of a high concentration * of 2-butoxyethanol in the product! What does the glycol ether 2-butoxyethanol do? Suspect that they 'look' like the gulf war syndrome vets  * & Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia  *   * Updated March, 2010