A recent study by Greenpeace has shown that 8 famous Danes who took part in an experiment all had no less than 28 dangerous chemicals in their blood. The younger participants had the most it was revealed.
The chemicals were a mixture of various hormone mutating and carcinogenic agents, found in various places, such as perfume, cleaning products, toys and electronic apparatus. Others are found in air and food pollution. Greenpeace has put pressure on environment minister Connie Hedegaard to help strengthen the coming EU chemicals law against lobby activity by various multinational chemical corporations.
moif: Well I guess I don’t have to look very far to find out why I have an autoimmune illness then!
In the meantime the Danish government, as a result of political pressure from the Parliamentary Energy Commission has put aside 200 million kr for research into bio fuels for cars and power stations.
“This is just a step on the road,” said Kim Mortensen (energy spokesperson for the Social Democrats) “and it’s only happened because we’ve been putting a lot of pressure on the government.”
The government has been reluctant to invest in bio-fuels since it didn’t consider the first generation of such fuels to be worth investing in. Today however, Energy Minister Flemming Hansen is saying that Denmark must become one of the world’s leaders in bio fuels.
“I dream that we can expand the scope of second generation of bio fuels, especially to include cars” he says.
moif: Cool. Get on with it!
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I work in the fish industry and the levels of arsenic are rising. However, since it is only inorganic arsenic compounds that are controlled by legislation the level of organic arsenic compounds are ignored. There was also some concern over the presence of polyaromatic hydrocarbons in cooked foods which are known to cause cancer. However since they are found in all foods the tolerance levels are extremely relaxed. Mercury content of tuna, swordfish & shark were also of concern and was thought to be indicative of the level of pollution in todays oceans - until they examined specimens in the Natural History museum dating back into the 19th century and found higher levels in those animals.
Pip is getting so BIG! What a cutie!!
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