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Two UWM sensors offer protection against threat of contaminated water supplies

2015-04-29 11:22:45| Industrial Machines - Topix.net

About 13.2 million households in the United States obtain their water from private wells, a method that offers no assurances of the water's quality. Testing private wells can be expensive and results can take weeks.

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Report finds 60% frozen shrimp samples contaminated

2015-04-28 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology

A new report by Consumer Reports (CR) has found that close to 60% of the frozen shrimps sampled in the US were contaminated.

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Soil around Fukushima site remains contaminated with dangerous radioactive waste

2015-04-19 01:16:47| Waste Management - Topix.net

The soil surrounding the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant remains contaminated with radioactive cesium, with a high risk that those atoms could transfer to food crops, suggests a study conducted by researchers from Kyoto Prefectural University and published in the Journal of Environmental Quality . The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan triggered multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima plant, causing the plant to eject a radioactive plume into the atmosphere that spread across Japan's countryside and the northern hemisphere.

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Fukushima contaminated food products could be entering UK markets: Experts

2015-04-15 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology

Food being produced around the Fukushima nuclear disaster site in Japan could be entering the British food market as a result of loopholes in food safety rules.

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