Archive For The “Arsenic” Category
We knew that this question would come along sooner or later. ‘Lisa’ wrote in and asked, “can my daughter use the arsenic water testing kit on juice? can you recommend any ideas for a science fair project?”
If you have not heard this already, studies have found that popular brands of juice contain higher than expected levels of arsenic, a naturally occurring toxic element known to cause definite health problems with prolonged exposure. Arsenic Quick Test Kit for Water Testing What juice brands contained arsenic? Name brands you might recognize included Minute [...]
Improve Your Tap Water For those who don’t already know, some people take the production of crystal clear, healthy and refreshing water very seriously. VERY seriously. Some take it so seriously that they enter their expertly filtered drinking water into competitions and in this case, tap water produced by members of the Atlantic States Rural [...]
Water Quality Test Kitfor 15 Different Water Parameters No one would dare question the belief that industry has a way of making messes and leaving them for others to clean up… or just leaving them and hoping no one ever realizes a mess got made in the first place. Some folks in a New Jersey [...]
‘Tanya1975′ asked… We bought a house that has a system for water filtering in it and we think the earlier owners were kinda’ nasty and probably did not change the stuff in the system. Ever. And it looks like it’s been here a while. Do you know where we can get new filter stuff for [...]
Now that school has started many students and parents have realized that a science fair looms in the near future… and the SMART ones have started looking for ideas already. The rest will wait until the last minute and wind up putting a bunch of ants in a jar and say they started an ant [...]
As the title stated, routine testing of well water yielded startling results… near an Elementary School in Durham, Connecticut. Testing of water from several wells showed higher than ‘normal’ amounts of sodium, sulfates, hardness and… dissolved arsenic. DURHAM — Traces of arsenic in some of the town’s wells have prompted the Department of Health to [...]
Earlier this year we wrote about a residential neighborhood called the Acreage in Florida because of the unusually high incident rate of cancer and tumors in children living in the area. At one point residents and officials suspected that radon may have played a part in making people ill (Radon a Suspect in Florida Tumor [...]