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GLEN ALLEN, Va., July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst based here, today announced the release of its newest report, "Tin Markets for Photovoltaics," the latest from the firm's "Metals in PV" series examining opportunities for various metals in the photovoltaics industry. This report contains an analysis and market projections of tin-doped indium oxide (ITO) and tin oxide (in some cases doped with fluorine or antimony), and other related materials. Further details...

BEIJING, July 8 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Himfr.com (http://www.himfr.com/ ), one of China's leading B2B search platforms with more than 30 B2B industry websites to its name, discusses the development of environmental protection paint (http://www.himfr.com/buy-environmental_protection_paint/ ). With rising concerns over health and environmental protection, market demand for environmental paint is on the increase. The so-called "green paint" refers to energy saving, low conservative...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall of JGR Copa body boards due to excessive lead in the paint used on the undersides. About 900 of the 18 inch Kick Body Boards imported from China by JGR Copa LLC of Hollywood, Fla., include green logos with the words Big Lizard on the underside that violate federal lead paint standards, the commission said. The body boards were sold at various sports and beach-accessory outlets between January 2009 and May 2009 for about...

Spanish scientists say they've confirmed the presence of zinc, copper and lead at high levels in the Huelva estuary's water and sediments in southwest Spain. The team of researchers from the University of Cadiz also studied how some of the heavy metals are transferred to fish and discovered zinc, cadmium and copper accumulate in the body tissues of sole and gilthead bream. We found positive correlations between the levels of some metals in the waters of the Huelva estuary and those in the...

ATLANTA, June 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Citing evidence that even a very low level of blood lead is a significant health risk at any age, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) is recommending a change in the case definition of elevated blood lead levels in adults. In a vote at the CSTE annual conference in Buffalo, NY, State Epidemiologists approved a proposal to consider blood levels of 10 ug/dl or more in adults as "elevated" -- the same standard as currently...

The waste obtained from olive during the oil extraction process can be used to eliminate heavy metals from sewage or waste waters of productive activities. Olive pits, pomace and remains (from olive tree pruning) present an outstanding capacity to retain the lead present in this water, which confirms their capacity as biosorbents for their application in the depuration of effluents on an industrial scale.This is one of the main conclusions of the doctoral thesis "Characterization and...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should outlaw the use of lead tire weights to prevent potential problems with children and wildlife, groups say. A dozen environmental groups and scientists have sent a petition to the U.S. agency asking it to add the metal items used to balance vehicle tires to the federal government's list of banned lead-based products, the San Francisco Chronicle said Monday. We found in our research that this was one of the last unregulated sources of lead into...

Private well water in the United States should be tested annually -- and in some cases more often than that -- the American Academy of Pediatrics advises. Researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health, took a lead role in working with the AAP to develop the recommendations on what parents should do if their children drink well water. The policy statement and technical report, scheduled to be published in the June issue of...

Dimensional graphics from a "green" perspective INVER GROVE HEIGHTS, Minn., May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- IGH Solutions announced today the introduction of the world's first PVC-free lenticular gift card constructed from APET, a plastic usually used in the manufacturing of water and soft drink bottles. The new card construction provides exceptionally deep 3-D and lenticular effects yet utilizes no PVC in its construction. Several large retailers and card-issuers have committed to reducing or...

BAAR, Switzerland, April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Manas Petroleum Corporation (OTC: MNAP) announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary, DWM Petroleum AG, has signed production contracts with the Petroleum Authority of Mongolia for blocks 13 and 14 at the Hotel Khan Palace Kempinsky in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on April 21, 2009. The production contracts were signed by Dashzeveg Amarsaikhan, the Chairman of the Petroleum Authority of Mongolia, and by Alex Becker on behalf of DWM Petroleum...