Environment contaminant monitoring

Several more hours were necessary to establish the lack of significant man-caused radioactive contamination of seawater and bottom sediments accordingly, the monitoring program was re-oriented toward discovering initial indices of marine environment contamination. Underwater radiation monitoring complex PRM-K with 1-... 

In addition to food analysis, the environment is monitored to measure the degree of contamination that might be caused by the use of pesticides. These projects entail sampling of wild life, water sources, and soils. Wealthy countries can utilize highly sophisticated and expensive equipment, such as gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry, for residue determination and identification. However, since there is inter-... 

N. Miyazaki, Contaminant monitoring studies using marine mammals and the need for establishment of an International Environmental Specimen Bank, Sci. Total Environ., 154 (1994), 249-256. 

Yang HF, Luo XY, Shen W, Zhou ZF, Jin CY, Yu F and Liang CS (1994) National food contamination monitoring programmes - levels of mercury, lead and cadmium in Chinese foods. Biomed Environ Sd 7 362-368. 

GEMS/Food Global Environment Monitoring System Food Contamination Monitoring and Assessment Programme... 

The environment in which materials are processed is tightly controlled in terms of temperature and microbial contamination. The microbial contamination of the environment is monitored on a weekly basis to ensure that low bio-burden conditions are maintained. 

Low oxygen coneentrations (2.10 -5.10 M) are evaluated by BL. BL of photobacteria are proportional to the oxygen eoncentration. Luminescent bacteria can be used in the laboratory for the test of different toxic substances. BL can be applied for environment contamination assays e.g. bioluminescent plankton ( bio-indicators ) are used for detection of heavy metal pollution. CL can also monitor dust, cigarette smoke, smog, ionizing- and UV-radiation [42, 43, 44, 45]. BL detectors are very useful for air tests in, for example, coal mining. 

Plant and animal life are monitored regularly at such faciHties. On the other hand, the potential, however small, of radioactive contamination of the environment in case of a reactor accident in which containment is breached does exist. 

Systems for monitoring Working environments Toxic contaminants Temperature Noise Lighting Vibration Ionizing radiation Occupational health... 

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