Most items are mundane: concrete and iron samples for the construction trade; slurried spinach and powdered cocoa for food manufacturers. But others seem like ingredients lifted from God’s pantry: ingots of purified elements and pressurised canisters of gases, available in finely graded blends and mixtures. Some are just whimsical, as if they were the creation of an overly zealous bureaucracy determined to standardise even the most unique substances available. Think domestic sludge, whale blubber, and powdered radioactive human lung, available as SRMs #2781, #1945, and #4351.
