March 13, 2009
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Health & Safety Newsletter March 13, 2009 |
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Electronic nose sniffs hazards on metros
An advanced sensor and data processing used to monitor air quality inside space station is now being used in an innovative fire protection system for Stockholm’s metro system. This technique, called the ‘electronic nose’, was developed for ESA in the 1990s as a contribution to the Russian Mir programme to ensure constant monitoring of the air inside the Mir space station. The system was successfully completed and operated on the 1995 and 1997 Mir missions, and proved its worth when it ‘smelled’ the very early signs of a fire on the 1997 mission. The electronic nose system consists of three elements: ... |
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Call for the French Cancer Plan to recognise environmental factors
In February, the Health & Environment Alliance (HEAL) and the Mouvement pour les Droits et le respect des Générations Futures (MDRGF) coordinated a petition to call for the inclusion of environmental factors, such as pesticides exposure within the new French Cancer Plan something that was overlooked in the previous plan. This cyber action was organized in the framework of HEAL and MDRGF `Sick of pesticides`campaign on pesticides and cancer. With 6000 responses in two weeks, the action confirms that citizens are getting more and more concerned about the impacts of environmental factors on their ... |
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