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This is the only id active. Ensure that the message size does not exceed 1 mb and there is no images or logo in your mail. Finally, do not include multiple id's in the to, BCC or CC field. Regards Harish Kotian -----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of vishakha Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:41 AM To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled.' <[email protected]> Subject: [AI] E-mails not reaching the group Importance: High Many of the e-mails do not seem to reach the group. 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. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking > of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its > veracity; > > 2. 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