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Bathroom doors, a water cooler handle, a refrigerator – their surfaces carried lead, cadmium and other hazardous metals, according to studies at two e-scrap facilities.
The health hazard evaluations, which were conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), also found metals and flame retardants on employees hands, in their bodies and in the air. In many cases, the levels were below occupational limits, but in some, concentrations were above.
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The announcement was made on Friday by Luhut Pandjaitan, the coordinating maritime minister.“Looking at its resources, Indonesia will become the main player in lithium batteries,” he said, Reuters reports.He added: “We will control the world market. We are lucky – we are starting in the third generation of lithium batteries...
The drug is oxybutynin, or Ditropan XL, long used to treat urinary incontinence.The study found that women taking the medicine had an average of five fewer hot flashes a week, compared with three fewer among women taking a placebo."Oxybutynin is an option that can control these symptoms and improve quality of life," said lead researcher Dr. Roberto...
The German Environment Agency (UBA) is urging a reform of European regulations on value added tax (VAT) to promote a reduction of raw material consumption. UBA's President Maria Krautzberger says: "The best way to save money is to save money." The EU has already approved this practice not for items such as electrical and electronic equipment. Accor...
The public health community needs to adopt a consistent science-based view on new generation tobacco products in order to properly inform regulators around the world and thereby shape a stable framework, James Murphy, the head of Reduced Risk Substantiation at British American Tobacco (BAT) told EURACTIV.com in an interview.Speaking to EURACTIV on ...
A team of researchers with the French National Centre for Scientific Research has found an example of environmental microplastics disrupting a predator-prey relationship. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, the group describes their study of the impact of microplastic consumption on the common periwinkle and what they...
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