Is Star San a type of bleach?

[fat x nub]

A guy told me this and I got sort of confused. We were talking about sanitizing and he brought up sainitizing with bleach. I said i sanitized with star san and then he said star san was a type of bleach. Is this true?

 

[Chris_Dog]

Bleach is made of chlorine IIRC Star San is not. That said it does exhibit bleaching properties.

http://www.fivestarchemicals.com/tech/starsan.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleach

 

[EdWort]

Starsan is a food grade acid. Bleach is steel pitting chlorine.

 

[eriktlupus]

Starsan is a food grade acid. Bleach is steel pitting chlorine.

amen!67890

 

[fat x nub]

thanks guys