water toxicity News
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Kaiser Permanente
Yesterday Linda Fabian, Director National Accounts and Fred Thacher, Chief Development Officer, demonstrated ZipThaw® to more than 8 Kaiser Permanente Hospital blood bank and lab technicians, managers and directors. ZipThaw performed flawlessly, thawing a 285ml bag of FFP frozen at -30C° faster, easier and safer than the other brand seen in the background. (Please note the distilled ...
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Online Water Toxicity Monitoring
Monitoring of water toxicity is of special importance, especially when surface water or ground water are used for the preparation of drinking water. Since a variety of substances are harmful for human being reliable online monitoring is recommended. LAR's online toxicity analyzer ToxAlarm continuously monitors drinking and surface water for toxic pollutants. This toximeter contains a highly ...
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Modern Water’s toxicity monitor used for river clean-up research
Modern Water plc (AIM:MWG), the owner of leading water technologies for the production of fresh water and monitoring of water quality, has collaborated with the University of Central Florida (UCF) to supply a Microtox® M500 toxicity monitor. The monitor will assist with research into advanced treatment techniques which could provide a solution to the removal of Total Phosphorus from the ...
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Ecological Services and Lake Management Environmental Firm Receives 2011 Top Workplace Award
EnviroScience, Inc. was recently honored as one of the top places to work, ranking 6th out of 60 ranked small businesses in Northeast Ohio as listed in the Top Workplaces 2011 awards published by the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Top Workplaces 2011 award holds special significance because the selections are based upon the opinions of the employees. The top companies were ranked by the results of ...
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Asphalt Systems, Inc. product can reduce global warming by 49%
The GreenCircle Certification verified that over a twenty year period, applications of ASI's GSB-88 once every five years can double the life of pavement, in turn reducing global warming 49%, ecotoxicity 36%, and smog 49% by eliminating the need to resurface the road. Asphalt Systems, Inc. (ASI) has long been a pioneer in pavement preservation methods that are both fiscally and environmentally ...
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KFC Will Post Acrylamide Warnings in California
SACRAMENTO, California (ENS) - The KFC Corp., which serves Kentucky Fried Chicken, agreed Tuesday to comply with a 1986 voter-approved initiative requiring companies that expose consumers to harmful substances to provide a 'clear and reasonable warning.' The company agreed to warn California customers that its fried or baked potatoes contain acrylamide, a chemical known to cause cancer. ...
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NC legislators approve regulating toxic coal ash
North Carolina lawmakers have approved legislation they say makes the state the nation's first to address decades of toxic water pollution from residue left behind by coal-burning electricity plants. The General Assembly on Wednesday approved legislation addressing the problem unmasked six months ago when a coal ash spill from a Duke Energy plant coated 70 miles of the Dan River in gray sludge. ...
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Global Distributors
We seek global business partners, OEM supply, Distributors, Licensees and marketing organisations to penetrate various worldwide markets with our patented ScaleBuster® technology. Ion Enterprises Ltd. - Company Overview ION Enterprises Limited has been trading since 1990, in 2012 had amalgamated with newterra Ltd. The company manufacture a range of environmental water treatment ...
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Petro Sep and University of Ottawa Selected for World Leading Nanotechnology Research
Ottawa, ON – June 9, 2008 – Ontario’s Ministry of Environment has approved a world leading nanotechnology research initiative between the University of Ottawa and Petro Sep™. This initiative involves the dev elopment of a new Nano membrane that has never been attempted before. If the research proves successful, these new nano membranes will have a higher flux and ...
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Court Rules against Homeowners in Toxic Water Case
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a group of homeowners in North Carolina can't sue a company that contaminated their drinking water decades ago because a state deadline has lapsed, a decision that could prevent thousands of other property owners in similar cases from recovering damages after being exposed to toxic waste. In a 7-2 decision, the justices said state law strictly bars any lawsuit ...
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Determination of toxicity in water
LAR's online analyzer ToxAlarm is a measuring system for the determination of toxicity in drinking and surface water. The analyzer contains a highly sensitive bacteria culture in a fermenter, which constantly and independently produces biomass. Since every water sample is tested with a small and fresh amount of bacteria, the risk of the entire bacteria culture within the analyzer being ...
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Continuous Toxicity Monitoring
The monitoring of water for unknown pollutants is of great importance, especially when surface water, drinking water or ground water are used. Since a variety of substances are harmful for human being reliable online monitoring is recommended. LAR's online toxicity analyser ToxAlarm continuously monitors drinking and surface water for toxic pollutants. This toxicity test contains a highly ...
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U.S. EPA Awards $100,000 to Emeryville, Calif., Small Business to Develop Sustainable Green Technologies
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $100,000 to Industrial Microbes located in Emeryville, Calif., to develop sustainable technologies that address environmental issues. A total of $1.9 million was awarded to 19 small businesses nationwide. Industrial Microbes Inc. received the funding to develop a green fermentation platform to replace carbon-emitting petrochemicals ...
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EPA Sharpens Focus on Ecological Benefits of Regulations
(Washington, D.C.) What benefits do people actually derive from clean air, water and land? EPA has taken a major step towards answering this question with the release today of its Ecological Benefits Assessment Strategic Plan (EBASP). EPA has traditionally been able to quantify human health benefits more easily than total ecological benefits when making regulatory decisions. The EBASP will help ...
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Continuous toxicity monitoring in drinking water and groundwater is highly is recommended
The monitoring of water for unknown pollutants is of great importance, especially when surface water, drinking water or groundwater are used. Since a variety of substances are harmful for human being reliable online monitoring is recommended. LAR's online toxicity analyser ToxAlarm continuously monitors drinking and surface water for toxic pollutants. This toxicity test contains a highly ...
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EPA, Shanghai AirNow international provides real-time air quality information
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson visited the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai today to observe the success of AirNow International. AirNow International launched in May by EPA and the Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB), gives real-time air quality information to Shanghai citizens through the Internet. "The AirNow International project is one of the ...
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California Intends to Add Trichloroethylene to Proposition 65 Reproductive Toxicity List
California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has announced plans to add trichloroethylene to the list of reproductive toxicants maintained under Proposition 65. In a Nov. 27 notice of intent, the agency proposed listing the volatile organic compound based on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency findings that trichloroethylene (CAS No. 79-01-06) caused male reproductive toxicity ...
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Chevron using espionage against lawyers who won $18 billion verdict in Ecuador
Facing increased financial risk in Latin America, Chevron has launched a corporate espionage campaign designed to intimidate and track the whereabouts of the lead lawyers who recently won an $18 billion judgment for environmental damage against the oil giant in Ecuador's courts, said the Amazon Defense Coalition. The purpose of the espionage campaign -- being carried out by at least four ...
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Nitrificants toximeter for WWTP protection
The toximeter NitriTox of LAR Process Analysers AG is a continuous operating analyzer for the determination of nitrification toxicity. Especially in water treatment, toxic substances can harm the waste water treatment plant's biomass in a negative way and in worst case lead to a entire plant shutdown. Therefore, the monitoring of toxicity is of special importance. The toximeter monitors the ...
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Toxic Water Splashes 6 in Japan Nuke Plant Mishap
Six workers at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant have been accidentally doused with highly radioactive water, the plant operator said Wednesday, adding to a growing list of mishaps that are shaking confidence in the utility's ability to handle the crisis. The workers removed the wrong pipe from equipment at the plant, sending toxic water spilling onto them and the entire floor of the facility ...
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