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Health impacts of the built environment
February 3, 2012 - Environmental Health Perspectives
Study results suggest that differences in population health impacts among neighborhoods are similar in magnitude for air pollution and physical activity.
Radiation level tags: Govt sets deadline for cell phone makers
February 3, 2012 - MSN news
New Delhi: The government on Wednesday set a September 1 deadline for mobile handset makers to conform to new radiation emission norms which limit specific absorption rate (SAR) levels for mobile phones to 1.6 watt/kg over six minutes of talking time.
Quebec: Editorial: From Toronto, a model for restaurant inspection
February 2, 2012 - TrainCan.Inc
The latest available food-poisoning statistics for Quebec as a whole showed 1,231 cases between April 2008 and March 2009 - and these are only the ones that were reported.
US: Cantaloupe hot water bath looks promising, USDA says
February 2, 2012 - TrainCan.Inc
Hot water immersion treatment for cantaloupes to enhance food safety has proven effective in the laboratory and could make the leap to commercial use, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Alberta's health authority was forced to issue a public warning for the fourth time in the past year, after discovering an unapproved piercing business or tattoo parlour operating under unsanitary conditions.
As children go from elementary to junior high school, the desire to tan grows stronger while the habit of using sunscreen goes out the window, according to a survey
Bird flu studies at the centre of a heated controversy pose a potential risk to public health of an "unusually high magnitude," the U.S. biosecurity experts who have advised against full publication of the studies said Tuesday.
