[All] New Disease-Preventing Approach for Health Units: "Opening cans of worms" instead of ignoring them!

[randybmclean at rogers.com]

Robert:

 

Interesting link.  Wasn't there someone who said "That which does not kill
you will make you stronger"?  Not a very emotionally grounded sentiment.
Most likely the same person would eat their young.

 

Randy

 

From: all-bounces at gren.ca [mailto:all-bounces at gren.ca] On Behalf Of Robert
Milligan
Sent: December-28-10 1:59 PM
To: Dr. Liana Nolan
Cc: . ETC Group; * Global Neuro-Net *; * GREN; CAO Mike Murray; Chair Ken
Seiling
Subject: [All] New Disease-Preventing Approach for Health Units: "Opening
cans of worms" instead of ignoring them!

 

Liana,

 

Doesn't this look interesting? 

 

Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria Found In Fertilizer, Finds Study Of Swedish
Sewage Sludge

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528203737.htm

 

Wouldn't it provide great job satisfaction if you could "safely" look into
it in the spirit of a Pioneering Innovative Region? I guess that I'll just
have to keep dreaming about a very unlikely safer World! 

 

Or, maybe Mike & Ken would encourage you to investigate how serious a
problem this might be both at our sewage treatment plants, and for farmer's
health and food crop safety where sludge is used?

 

And what about "treated" waste water that is discharged into the Grand River
watershed -- how safe is it? Are people living downwind -- or just in the
vicinity --  of sewage treatment plants being exposed?

 

This indeed looks like a really exciting can of worms to open so you can go
fishing for potentially very serious health-safety and environmental-safety
problems here -- possibly in collaboration with the GRCA, MOE, Ministry of
Health, Ministry of Natural Resources, Federal Department of Health,
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, etc.

 

My view here would be that if various other agencies -- such as I mentioned
-- are not taking expeditious action to look into these types of new
technology-caused problems, then we should take the needed initiatives --
including the creation of a Health Intelligence Group (in cooperation with
UofW, UofG, UWO's Ecosystem Health program, ... ) -- so as to better protect
the health and safety of our citizens. 

 

In fact, such an initiative could possibly be communicated as an additional
attracting feature of our exemplary Pioneering Innovative Region (LRT
currently exempted), viz. "We go that extra mile to protect your
environmental health & safety."

 

I can see many implied suggestions for New Years Resolutions for all
recipients here!

 

Robert, BSc, Environmental Health Analyst

 

P.S. Since we are on the topic of health dangers from new technologies, here
is a developing problem to ponder:

Biomagnification of Nanomaterials in Simple Food Chain Demonstrated

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101220142436.htm

 

 

 

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