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HDXRF Offers Many Advantages Over ICP Methods
HDXRF® technology is fast, precise, and easy to use. In addition, the technology offers a 1-mm analysis area that provides the ability to test small features for the presence of potentially toxic heavy metals, including lead. When it comes to analyzing glass materials for lead, HDXRF can offer many advantages over ICP methods. In 2013, the CPSC expanded upon its approval of HDXRF ASTM method ...
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Thermo Electron Acquires Leading Industrial X-ray Provider NITON LLC
Untitled Document WALTHAM, Mass. (April 11, 2005) −Thermo Electron Corporation (NYSE:TMO) has purchased NITON LLC, a leading provider of portable X-ray systems for metals, petrochemical and environmental markets. Marijn E. Dekkers, president and chief executive officer of Thermo, said, “The addition of NITON is a continuation of our efforts to better serve the ...
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European successes in reducing toxic metal pollutants
Strategies in Europe to protect human health and the environment from the harmful effects of heavy metals have been successful in reducing atmospheric emissions of cadmium, lead and mercury, according to a recent study. The study suggests further reductions are possible. Heavy metals are toxic to human health and can damage the environment. For example, if large amounts of lead build up in the ...
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Baltimore Landlord Pleads Guilty to Violations of the Toxic Substances Act
Last month, The Baltimore Sun reported that an area landlord with a history of lead paint abatement law violations has agreed to plead guilty to several violations. The violations stem from the Toxic Substances Control Act and are connected with the landlord’s failure to notify tenants of possible lead hazards. The man owns and manages 175 apartments across Baltimore. According to ...
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Lead Hazards Still Exist in Many Homes & Buildings
Lead poisoning is an entirely preventable condition, but according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are still approximately 24 million housing units in the United States that have deteriorated leaded paint and elevated levels of lead-contaminated house dust. Children under the age of 6 years old are at high risk of lead poisoning because they are growing so rapidly ...
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Chromium pollution publication marks 10 years of NPL`s Heavy Metals Network
Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have detailed the changing levels of chromium pollution across the UK Heavy Metals Monitoring Network, which celebrates 10 years of NPL operation this month. Chromium, a toxic metal, is being increasingly recognised as an important environmental pollutant, and its emission from industrial facilities is controlled by European legislation. ...
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U.S. EPA awards local Bay Area Counties nearly $100K for innovative programs that tackle childhood lead poisoning (CA)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding a childhood lead poisoning prevention grant in the amount of $96,752 to Santa Clara County’s Environmental Health Department. This grant will benefit multiple Bay Area Counties. The funding will go to the County’s childhood lead poisoning prevention program through a unique grant designed to reduce childhood lead poisoning ...
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Will Baltimore’s Housing Authority Pay Lead Poisoning Judgments?
Last month, The Baltimore Sun reported that the chairman of the City Council committee has instructed Baltimore’s housing authority to start the process of paying former public housing occupants who have succumbed to lead poisoning. Another member of the committee has also asked the housing authority to pay the bulk of the almost $12 million in judgments against it for lead poisoning. ...
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Baltimore Court Awards $5.1 Million in Lead Poisoning Case
This month, The Daily Record reported that a Baltimore City Circuit Court has awarded a woman suffering from brain damage to $5.1 million. The 20 year old is reported to have spent the first 12 years of her life in a rented property that contained flaking lead-based paints. Many houses and apartments built before 1978 have paint that contains lead. Lead from paint, chips and dust can pose ...
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Mangroves can trap toxic heavy metals, says study
Researchers in New Caledonia have discovered that mangrove forests act as useful filters for toxic heavy metals, preventing these pollutants from contaminating the islands' waterways. The researchers — from France's Institute of Development Research (IRD), working in collaboration with regional research partners — say that further destruction of the mangroves could therefore result ...
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Modern Water signs exclusive distribution agreement for China
Modern Water plc (AIM:MWG), the owner of leading water technologies for the production of fresh water and monitoring of water quality, has recently signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Beijing Green Science and Technology (Beijing Green) which will cover mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau. Beijing Green has been one of Modern Water’s key distribution partners for almost ten ...
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Newly published ASTM F963-16 allows use of HDXRF testing of heavy metals in toys
The ASTM F15.22 Toy Safety Committee has just published revisions to its U.S. Toy Safety Standard, F963-16, covering the safety of all toys sold in the United States. Integral among the new changes is a provision allowing for the use of High-Definition X-Ray Fluorescence, or HDXRF, to measure the presence of toxic heavy metals in toys. Compared to traditional wet chemistry testing, HDXRF is much ...
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Land use affects potential health risks of cadmium and lead soil contaminants
Exposure to polluted soil can affect human health, but the risk may vary depending on the soil type. A recent study has shown that the differing amounts of cadmium and lead that can be dissolved in the human digestive system can be predicted for contaminated agricultural, urban and woody habitat soils using a model. Its authors suggest this is a useful method for assessing the risks of ...
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Heavy metal – in and around the lake
Heavy metal pollution of lakes has a seriously detrimental impact on people and ecosystems that rely on such bodies of water. According to a study published in the current issue of Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, researchers have focused on the physicochemical properties and toxicology of water from and around Thane City of Maharashtra. Environmental chemist Pravin Singare of ...
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CDC Revises Lead Poisoning Guidelines as Lead Expert Responds to Help Children
Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revised their lead poisoning guidelines. The CDC basically cut in half the amount of lead found in children’s blood between the ages of 1 and 5 that will now trigger monitoring and other actions. According to the CDC, the new lead guidelines will increase the patient population to over 440,000 people. Any child ...
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Source of Mystery Mercury Spill in Arizona Remains Unknown
On March 31st, the El Mirage Fire Department released a news bulletin about a mercury spill at a bank-owned home in the town. Fire crews from El Mirage and hazardous materials teams from the nearby towns of Peoria and Surprise responded to the scene. It is not known how a quantity of greater than one pound of mercury was spilled at the vacant home. Anyone with information concerning this ...
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Herbal defluoridation of drinking water
A filtration system based on a medicinal herb can quickly and easily remove “fluoride” from drinking water, say researchers in India. The technology described in the March issue of the International Journal of Environmental Engineering uses parts of the plant Tridax procumbens as a biocarbon filter for the ion. Drinking water can contain natural fluoride or fluoride might be added ...
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APTIVATOR™: A New Development in Water Treatment
What is APTIVATOR™? Here at APT, it’s no secret that we’re all about peat. For the past 17 years, we’ve worked hard to unlock the power of peat through the manufacture of value-added products made from this abundant natural resource. Peat is a slowly self-renewing and valuable natural resource with untapped potential, and we are committed to stewarding its use through the ...
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Thermo Electron Adds NITON XLi 300 Lead Paint Analyzer to its Award Winning Family
Untitled Document Billerica, MA –Thermo Electron Corporation, introduces the newest member of its awardwinning NITON family of X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) analyzers: the NITON XLi 300. At just 1.7 pounds, this “phaser grip” ergonometric option in portable lead analyzers brings laboratory precision into the field. Building on the success of the company’s award winning XL-300 ...
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Slag Containing Arsenic, Mercury, and Lead Contaminates Columbia River
According to the Huffington Post, Teck Resources Ltd. has admitted that discharge from their smelter has polluted the Columbia River across the U.S. and Canada border for 100 years, from 1896 to 1995. The Columbia River is contaminated with slag containing arsenic, mercury, lead, and other metals left over after the company processed zinc at its smelter located near the river. Teck ...
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