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Could you please provide > the e-mail id where they should be forwarded for uploading on the group. > > Regards, > > Vishakha. > -----Original Message----- > From: AccessIndia <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Kotian, H P > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2018 10:58 AM > To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning > the disabled. <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AI] Moderator: OT- RE: taken from hindu today > > Hi > > The reason is mentioned, this was an off-topic post. > > And regarding of it being of general interest, prior approval is required. > > The scope of the topics for the list is mentioned in the welcome mail and in > additional it is periodically shared on an irregular basis. > > Everyone on the list is expected to adhere to the guidelines. > > Harish. > Moderator. > > -----Original Message----- > From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Saluudin Mohd > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2018 4:44 PM > To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning > the disabled. <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AI] Moderator: OT- RE: taken from hindu today > > viewed seriously? > what mistake i have made? > i thought, it will be a kind of awareness and informatic news for each & > everybody. > thanks and regards > syed > > > > On 15/03/2018, Kotian, H P <[email protected]> wrote: >> All >> This is off-topic post. >> Any more of such off-topic post will be viewed seriously. >> Should you want to share such compelling posts, please obtain prior >> permission from the undersigned. >> Regards >> Harish Kotian >> Email: [email protected] >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Saluudin Mohd >> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2018 1:43 PM >> To: accessindia <[email protected]> >> Subject: [AI] taken from hindu today >> >> How much plastic is there in your packaged water A worldwide study by >> a U.S.-based journalistic organisation suggests that the level of >> microscopic plastic particles could have implications for human health >> Bottled water is usually marketed as the very essence of purity. It’s >> the fastest-growing beverage market in the world, valued at $147 >> billion a year. But new research by Orb Media, a non-profit journalism >> organisation based in Washington, D.C., shows that a single bottle can >> hold dozens, or possibly even thousands, of microscopic plastic >> particles. Tests on more than 250 bottles from 11 brands reveal >> contamination with plastic, including polypropylene, nylon, and >> polyethylene terephthalate (PET). When contacted by reporters, two >> leading brands confirmed their products contained microplastic, but they >> said Orb’s study significantly overstates the amount. >> For plastic particles in the 100-micron, or 0.1-mm size range, tests >> conducted for Orb at the State University of New York revealed a >> global average of 10.4 plastic particles a litre. >> These particles were confirmed as plastic using an industry-standard >> infrared microscope. The tests also showed a much greater number of >> even smaller particles that researchers said are also likely plastic. >> The global average for these particles was 314.6 per litre. Samples >> came from 19 locations in nine countries on five continents. Some >> bottles had effectively zero plastic. One contained more than 10,000 >> particles a litre. >> We found plastic in 93% of the samples. “This is shocking,” said Erik >> Solheim, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme. >> “Please name one human being on the entire planet who wants plastic in >> his or her bottle.” Peggy Apter certainly doesn’t. “It’s >> disheartening,” said Apter, a real estate investor in Carmel, Indiana, >> U.S., who drinks only bottled water. “What’s the world come to? Why >> can’t we have just clean, pure water?” Packaged water can be a >> lifeline for many of the 2.1 billion people worldwide with unsafe >> drinking water. Some 4,000 children die every day from water-borne >> diseases, according to the United Nations. Yet many who do have safe >> tap water still choose bottled because they think it’s cleaner, find >> it more convenient or prefer the taste. Bottled water output will soon >> hit 300 billion litres a year. Scientists and governments are increasingly >> concerned about microplastic pollution. >> Recent studies have found microplastic — particles smaller than 5 mm — >> in the oceans, soil, air, lakes, and rivers. But plastic’s final >> frontier may be the human body. Last year, Orb Media revealed >> microscopic plastic in global tap water samples. Today’s study is “a >> very illuminative example of how intimate our contact with plastic >> is,” said Martin Wagner, a toxicologist at the Norwegian University of >> Science and Technology. What this means for human health is unknown. >> “Based on current knowledge, which is very fragmentary and incomplete, >> there is little health concern,” Mr. Wagner said. “The human body is >> well-adapted to dealing with non-digestible particles.” As much as 90% >> of microplastic that is consumed might be excreted, a 2016 European >> Union report on plastic in seafood said. Of the other 10%, some >> plastic under 150 microns (0.15 mm) could enter the gut’s lymphatic >> system, or pass from the bloodstream to the kidneys or liver, according >> the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. >> Today’s bottled water study found plastic within that range. But >> assumptions about how plastic behaves in the gut come from scientific >> models, not laboratory studies, Jane Muncke, managing director at the >> Food Packaging Forum, a Swiss research organisation, said. “We don’t >> even know all the chemicals in plastics,” Ms. Muncke said. “There’s so >> many unknowns here.” >> Bottled water manufacturers emphasised their products met all >> government requirements. Gerolsteiner, a German bottler, said its >> tests “have come up with a significantly lower quantity of >> microparticles per litre”, than found in Orb’s study. Nestle tested >> six bottles from three locations after an inquiry from Orb Media. >> Those tests, said Nestle Head of Quality Frederic de Bruyne, showed >> between zero and five plastic particles a litre. None of the other >> bottlers agreed to make public results of their tests for plastic >> contamination. “We stand by the safety of our bottled water products,” >> the American Beverage Association said in a statement. Anca Paduraru, >> a food safety spokeswoman for the European Commission, said that while >> microplastic is not directly regulated in bottled water, “legislation >> makes clear there must be no contaminants”. The U.S. doesn’t have >> rules for microplastic in food and beverages. Some consumers were >> shocked by Orb’s discovery. Others were confident plastic wouldn’t >> harm them. The study was supervised by Professor Sherri Mason, a >> leading microplastic researcher at the State University of New York in >> Fredonia. Mason also managed Orb’s 2017 tap water study. To test >> bottled water, Ms. Mason’s team first infused each bottle with a dye >> called Nile Red, an emerging method used by scientists for the rapid >> detection of microplastic. The water was then filtered to 1.5 microns, >> or 0.0015 mm — smaller than a human red blood cell. Under a >> microscope, in the blue glare of a crime-scene investigation light, >> and viewed through orange goggles, the dyed plastic particles on each >> filter glow like tiny embers. Ms. Mason analysed bigger particles, >> about 100 microns (0.1 mm), by Fourier-Transform Infrared >> spectroscopy, which beams infrared light into an object to read its >> molecular signature. Polypropylene, used in bottle caps, made up 54% >> of those larger particles. Nylon was 16%. PET, used in bottles, was >> 6%. The majority of samples came in plastic bottles. Water in glass >> bottles also held microplastic. Fluorescing particles that were too >> small to be analysed by FTIR should be called “probable microplastic”, >> said Andrew Mayes, senior lecturer in chemistry at the University of >> East Anglia, because “some of it might be another, unknown, substance >> to which Nile Red stain is adhering.” Mr. Mayes developed the Nile Red >> method for identifying microplastic. Mr. De Bruyne, of Nestle, noted that >> Mason’s tests did not include a step in which biological substances are >> removed from the sample. >> Therefore, he said, some of the fluorescing particles could be false >> positives — natural material that the Nile Red had also stained. He >> didn’t specify what that material would be. Ms. Mason said the >> so-called “digestion step” is used on debris-filled samples from the >> ocean or the seashore, and wasn’t needed for bottled water. “Certainly >> they are not suggesting that pure, filtered, pristine water is likely >> to have wood, algae, or chitin [prawn shells] in it?” she said. To >> count the particles, we used an app that recorded the number of >> fluorescing objects in photographs of lab filters. >> “This is pretty substantial,” Mr. Mayes said. “I’ve looked in some >> detail at the finer points of the way the work was done, and I’m >> satisfied that it has been applied carefully and appropriately, in a >> way that I would have done it in my lab.” A recent paper in the >> journal Water Research reported finding microplastic in German mineral >> water. “I’m sure that this [plastic] is from the bottle itself,” lead >> author Darena Schymanski said. Orb’s studies of tap water and bottled >> water used different methods. But there is room to compare them. For >> microplastic around 100 microns, about the width of a hair, bottled >> water samples had nearly twice the particles per litre (10.4) as tap >> water (4.45). What’s best? So what’s best, bottled or tap? “If your >> tap water is of high quality, that’s always better,” said Scott >> Belcher, Professor of toxicology at North Carolina State University. >> “If you have contaminated and unsafe drinking water, bottled water may >> be your only alternative.” Echoing other consumers we interviewed, Ms. >> Apter said, “It’s the government’s responsibility to educate people to >> know what they’re drinking and eating. >> >> >> >> >> Search for old postings at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to >> [email protected] >> with the subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> please visit the list home page at >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org >> .in >> >> >> Disclaimer: >> 1. 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