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Water Testing Kit
September 14, 2006 (9wsyr.com)
The Watersafe All-in-One Drinking Water Test kit lets you easily and cheaply
test your water for several common contaminants or conditions.
The kits
demonstrated an impressive ability to detect very low levels of most
contaminants in 10 minutes or less, and all provided correct readings for
hardness. Water tested for bacteria is supposed to turn purple (indicating clean
water) or yellow (bacteria). Ten kits worked well, but two gave no results for
clean water, and two others gave no result for dirty.
Consumer Reports
believes the kit can be useful. It won’t check for every contaminant, but few
other home kits cover as many. Sending water to a lab for these tests could cost
at least $100.
Experts: Pesticides used to kill mosquitoes are mostly harmless
August 17th, 2005 (sacbee.com)
As efforts to resume aerial mosquito spraying Wednesday night were once again dashed by the winds, the Sacramento region continued slogging through a crash course on the chemicals being sent aloft to attack West Nile virus.
If this stuff kills mosquitoes so well, some people are asking, what the heck is it doing to humans?
Probably very little, largely because the exposure is so brief, according to doctors and scientists familiar with pesticide research.
Pesticide-Linked School Illness Increases
July 26th, 2005 (nlm.nih.gov)
Researchers say the rate of new illnesses associated with pesticide exposure in schools increased significantly in children from 1998 to 2002.
According to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, pesticide exposure in school environments is a health risk facing both children and school employees.
High Ddt Levels Found in Breast Milk of Hk Mothers
July 22nd, 2005 (nlm.nih.gov)
High levels of DDT were found in the breast milk of new mothers in Hong Kong even though the pesticide has long been banned in many places, including Hong Kong and China, a scientist said on Friday.
The rat pack: when rat poison manufacturers complained about regulations, the EPA rolled over
January 2005 (findarticles.com)
In 2003, a 46-year-old man was admitted to a U.S. hospital after exhibiting a variety of symptoms. At first, doctors thought the man--whose name and city were withheld in records kept by the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC)--was suffering from a kidney stone, and the hospital admitted him for observation. But the patient's condition deteriorated rapidly. He started bleeding internally, with massive hemorrhaging inside his skull. Just two days after arriving at the hospital, he was dead. After his death, doctors found in his body a high concentration of brodifacoum, a widely used rat poison. The grotesque death was not unique: Between 2001 and 2003, the AAPCC reported nearly 60,000 cases nationwide of poisonings by rodenticides, more than for any other pesticide. Roughly 250 of those exposures each year resulted in serious outcomes, including deaths. And the deaths were horrific: Rat poisons kill by anticoagulation--they disrupt normal clotting until blood vessels in effect explode.
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