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Fears over pesticide exposure in the month of conception

New research reveals that babies conceived in the spring and summer are more likely than others to be born with birth defects. One possible cause is the levels of pesticides in surface water happen to peak at the same time. The study, published in the US medical journal Acta Pædiatrica links the increasing number of birth defects in children of women whose last menstrual period occurred in April ...

May 1, 2009

By Health and Environment Alliance

IFAT is over

Stunning experience. A very successful week, a lot of contacts and new customers from all over the world! Many thanks to all of you. Next appointments: RWM Birmingham, Ecomondo Rimini and Pollutec Lyon. Keep following ...

Jun. 9, 2016

By SatrindTech Srl

Oregon Guard Soldiers Sue Military Contractor over Hexavalent Chromium Exposure

LA Testing provides hexavalent chromium and other metal testing services to keep soldiers and industrial workers safe from the cancer causing materials. Garden Grove, CA, September 20th, 2010 Last month a federal judge ruled a lawsuit by some veterans of the Oregon Army National Guard could proceed against a major contractor from the war in Iraq. The veterans ...

Sep. 20, 2010

By EMSL Analytical, Inc.

EPA awards over $200,000 to the Oklahoma department of labor to reduce exposure to asbestos

A grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will assist in reducing asbestos exposure in schools and state buildings in Oklahoma. The grant for $234,713, given to the Oklahoma Department of Labor (ODOL), will be used for inspections and encouraging compliance with the Asbestos in Schools Program which is designed to protect the health of school children and other occupants as well as ...

Mar. 7, 2012

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Awards the State of Oklahoma Over $240,000 to Reduce Exposure to Asbestos in Schools and State Buildings

The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded the Oklahoma Department of Labor $242,322 to help reduce exposure to asbestos in schools and state buildings through compliance monitoring. The funds will be used by the ODOL to complete audit inspections in local schools during the upcoming school year. Asbestos inspections are a traditional method of encouraging compliance with the Asbestos in ...

Oct. 9, 2012

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Metro Mining - Award winning mining group adopts ESdat

Metro Mining Limited is an Australian exploration and mining company based in Brisbane, Queensland. Metro commenced mining operations at its flagship project, the Bauxite Hills Mine, 95 kms north of Weipa on western Cape York, in April this year. Metro conducts surface water and groundwater environmental monitoring to meet operating licence ...

Sep. 13, 2018

By Esdat Environmental Data Software

AKCP to Announce LoRaWAN Products at Intelligent Building Systems Show

AKCP in collaboration with GMI Databox will announce a family of LoRaWAN products at the upcoming Intelligent Building Systems show in Paris Porte de Versailles, France. AKCP, established in the USA in 1981, has 37 years of experience in professional sensor management solutions. AKCP is partnering with GMI Databox at the ...

Sep. 12, 2018

By AKCP

De Nora Launches Next Generation of ClorTec® On-Site Sodium Hypochlorite Generators

De Nora, a leading designer of safe, innovative, and sustainable water ...

Sep. 19, 2018

By Industrie De Nora S.p.A. | De Nora Water Technologies

Video: Gel Used For Detecting Lead Paint

One of the most recent advancements in technology today is a gel used for detecting levels of lead paint. Developed by scientists at the University of Michigan, the gel test relies on a new molecular recipe to determine whether a paint chip contains more lead than the regulated 5,000 parts per million. The new test works through a vial that holds paint thinner and certain salts that will turn ...

Sep. 10, 2018

By The TDJ Group, Inc

Fluence to Present at Cowen New York Summit on September 20

Melbourne, Australia & New York, USA: Fluence Corporation Limited (ASX: FLC) ("Fluence" or the "Company"), a global leader in water and wastewater treatment solutions, today announced that its Chief Executive Officer, Henry Charrabe" will participate in the "Water - Reaching an Inflection in Advanced Technology" panel presentation at the Cowen Industrial Innovation and Technology Summit at ...

Sep. 17, 2018

By Fluence Corporation

TTEC has Boiler Tube Thermocouples for the Power Industry

Water and steam flow through boiler tubes is very important so that the system performs properly. A blockage inside a tube will cause many expensive problems, including overheating, tube rupture and forced shutdown of the unit. A blockage will be indicated by an elevated surface temperature. The tube surfaces need to be monitored at many locations so that blockages can be quickly detected. The ...

Sep. 18, 2018

By Thermocouple Technology, LLC (TTEC)

Managing exposure to nanoparticles in the workplace

It is estimated that approximately 2 million workers will be employed in nanotechnology industries worldwide in the next fifteen years. A new study reviews an existing framework of occupational risk management and describes possible methods for controlling exposure to nanomaterials in workplaces. The manufacture and use of nanomaterials is increasing. Although this is creating more jobs, those ...

Apr. 22, 2009

By European Commission, Environment DG

The Comet Assay and Occupational Exposure

The Comet assay is being used with increasing popularity in biomonitoring studies to determine the level of DNA damage in workers exposed to potentially hazardous chemicals and radiation. The assay is an ideal biomarker for such investigations due to its sensitivity and reliability in detecting DNA damage and repair. A large number of research groups are utilising our ...

Mar. 30, 2011

By Perceptive Instruments Ltd.

Country management for exposure limits

The country management is a new parameter introduced in EuSHEET to allow you to associate a country to every specific limit, included in the table in section 8, and to print the safety data sheet which contains only the limits related to the selected country. Country management activation It is possible to enable the country management by entering the menu Utilities → ...

Jul. 1, 2013

By Selerant srl

Podcast: The Fight Over Fracking

The Colorado Oil & Gas Association (COGA), in partnership with CH2M, is pleased to announce the newest episode of COGA’s “What Turns You On?“ podcast series – The Fight over Fracking. In this episode of the COGA Energy Podcast, best-selling author and Managing Director of Lime Rock Partners, Gary Sernovitz, comes to us live from the 2016 Rocky Mountain Energy ...

Sep. 22, 2016

By CH2M Hill Companies, Ltd.

All over for the DFR stack

The original stack from the Dounreay Fast Reactor has ended its days as a pile of scrap metal. Before the cutting work could start, Dounreay workers climbed inside the stack to decontaminate the interior, and remove the remaining pipe work. A team from Core Cut, a West Lothian-based company who are one of Britain's leading specialists in ‘DiamondWire’ sawing, then moved in and spent a number of ...

Mar. 25, 2010

By Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL)

Aerosols increasing over India

Aerosols — particles or droplets suspended in the air that impact climate by scattering or absorbing the sun’s radiation — are increasing across India, new research shows. The findings by S. Ramachandran and colleagues from the space and atmospheric sciences division of ...

Dec. 15, 2011

By SciDev.Net

Is global warming all over?

The recent fall in global temperatures has led to increasing speculation that global warming is a thing of the past. Despite this fall, a look at global average temperatures reveals a different picture. It shows large variability in our climate year-on-year – warmer some years, cooler in others - but what is very clear is an underlying rise over the longer term, almost certainly caused by ...

May 1, 2008

By The Met Office

01dB: How to estimate your noise exposure and your vibration exposure...

The risk assessment caused by noise and vibration allows the identification of exposed workers and a good knowledge of sound and vibration situations to define an adapted action plan. Many workers are exposed daily to occupational noise and vibration. Extended exposure of individuals to intense noise levels generates hearing loss and important deafness troubles. Regarding vibration levels, it can ...

Apr. 15, 2011

By ACOEM

Exposure Photography Awards – Jonathan Banks

British photographer Jonathan Banks will have his work displayed at the Louvre Museum on the 13th July, as part of the Exposure Photography Awards. Four of the images included in his ...

Jun. 10, 2015

By DelAgua Group

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