Borek,
I suspect that you have been dealing with Fisher Scientific. I won't
even try to begin with how wierd they are, except to recommend that when
they ask for your Social Security number, hang-up. The present
administration has unleashed paranoia throughout the land, in my humble
opinion. We aren't talking high-speed centrifuges here. We are talking
vegetables. Fisher Scientific is totally wacked-out and will soon go
under or wake-up. In the mean time, us hobbit-like gardeners can get pH
meters from VWR or Cole - Parmer.

Hopefully, the political climate in this country is changing but that
may be hoping for too much since the same corporations pay both major
parties for access.

In the mean time,
coloribus gustibus non disputatum.

- Bill