Health & Safety Newsletter
April 04, 2013
This Week´s Featured News Stories
Toxic mercury from discarded thermostats continues to pollute: Manufacturers´ recycling programs found to be ineffective in most states
A manufacturer-run program for collecting mercury thermostats is failing to keep the toxic heavy metal out of the trash—and the environment—in most states, according to a new report released today by the Multi-state Mercury Products Campaign and the Product Stewardship Institute. Turning up the Heat IIestimates that, at most, the industry recycling program has captured 8% of mercury thermostats coming out of service in the past decade. This has resulted in the disposal of over 50 tons of mercury into the environment, which can expose people to the neurotoxin through fish consumption. "For ...
New Projects Bringing Health Considerations Into Education, Energy Policy, And Other Decisions
The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, today announced eight new grant recipients that will receive funding to conduct health impact assessments, or HIAs. The projects will bring health considerations into upcoming decisions on topics including education, sanitation infrastructure, and energy. The grantees were selected based on their response to a national call for proposals.
"Our new grantees will use health impact assessments to uncover opportunities to improve health in a wide range of policy decisions, as ...
Crowcon Detection Instruments Ltd
Crowcon Detection Instruments develop, manufacture and market a complete range of portable and fixed gas detection products you can trust to protect people and plant against gas hazards. Established over 40 years the company has strong regional centres in North America, Singapore, The Netherlands and India, with a mature network of trained distributors covering almost every other country around the globe. Products range from disposable H2S monitors, through a variety of multigas portables, flue gas analyzers and fixed detectors and controllers to fully automated remote sampling systems.

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