Roundtable Discussion; The Future of Mineral Sands. Watch the video here.
We recommend as a matter of urgency that the Environment Agency work with water companies to ensure that easily accessible information on sewage discharges in waterways in as near to real time as possible is made available to the public, as now required under the Environment Act 2021. (Paragraph 70)
We agree that the quality and transparency of public data on sewage overflows must be improved. The Government is already working closely with the Environment Agency, the Storm Overflows Taskforce and the water industry on relevant proposals to enable this and ensure accountability. Water companies have committed to bring forward full event duration monitoring by 2023. The Environment Act also introduced a duty for water companies to monitor the water quality up and downstream from their assets and we will be bringing forward more detail on this in due course.
An interesting read,
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmenvaud/164/report.html
We recommend that the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs commission, in conjunction with the devolved administrations, a UK-wide survey of emerging pollutants and microplastic pollution of river environments, including an assessment of their potential impact on aquatic ecology. (Paragraph 42)
Through the Environment Agency, we are investing in cutting edge analytical techniques and are planning to scan for over 1,500 specific chemicals in the surveillance network across watercourses, and continually review and add to the list of chemicals to look for. To supplement this targeted analysis, we are developing non-target screening in water, biota and sediment allowing the detection of the presence of more than 65,000 different chemicals.
Water quality is a devolved matter and there is existing, strong coordination in this area across the UK administrations, not least because river basin management planning covers cross border river basin districts. At the working level, the UK Technical Advisory Group (UKTAG) comprises experts drawn from UK environment agencies and conservation agencies. The UKTAG develops guidance and makes recommendations to the UK’s administrations on technical aspects of implementation of the water quality regulations and river basin management planning. It operates through a series of technical task teams established for specific subjects including chemicals, marine waters, water resources, groundwater and fresh water. Through this work, we have a good picture of the UK’s water environment overall.
Has to be Ireland AM.
Any Irish TV viewers on here recognise the studio backdrop? Do they have the equivalent to GMT over there?
The team are filming something exciting for Skin Trust Club in Dublin today!
@noknokdublin
#BTS #KnowYourSkin
https://twitter.com/skintrustclub/status/1525160910934908933?s=20&t=IEWXKROeLM1a2xRsM5y3HA
I'd like to know if the PD's are still in use, collecting data. Ironically the gov have spent hundreds of tax payers money on them, us shareholders have partly paid for several MictrotoxPD's lol. If they don't like them what do they do? Bin them or sell them on Ebay?
That was unfair of me Bem. Please accept my apology. We're all frustrated at the moment.
MAN UP or sell!
Is that really your contribution to this discussion Muggins? Argue the figures at least.
Obviously, and they had revenue of £4m with reoccurring revenue so now add the new clients via STC. Another £4mi on top?
161 products available to buy on the STC website and from memory circa £30k plus to have your product tested by Labskin. It has more than paid for itself even before cuts of product sales and profits from the actual test kits. Not forgetting the invaluable data they're collecting.
Thought I'd put it under a more appropriate heading. Left hand drive. So where's that destined for?
https://www.glanaco.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/gallery-imgs-mobile-kit-out-1-1200x800.jpg
Wow brilliant, hats off to your research skills T.Rat.
Lengthy and in depth government discussion on how Wastewater monitoring data will be used. Even down to street level detection considered. Maybe my dream will come true!
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1073467/Test_and_Trace_Public_Advisory_Group_Report.pdf
We all have dream RNS's to wake up to. CR Deal, STC hitting 20,000 p/m, BT being trialed by the NHS etc... Mine is "Contract by UK gov for 9000, MicrotoxPD units" What's yours?
https://alfetnanews.com/microbiome-friendly-beauty-products-do-they-work/
Good to see them quoted.
Recently, initiatives such as the Skin Trust Club have started collecting samples from the public to delve deeper into our skin health and its inner workings. From a biomedical standpoint, researchers are also exploring the effects of antibiotics on the skin microbiome, to see if we can drive down antimicrobial resistance.
This is far easier said than done, though.
“There is a huge commercial pull to explore how to improve skin through a microbiome-targeted approach,” concludes the SMiHA team. “However, separating the effects of topical products on the microbial population and the skin cells – in a way that allows us to be able to categorically say microbial targeting drives healthier skin – is a tough challenge for the scientific community.”
I think we're all just gob smacked that this isn't in the pounds.
2 Weeks ago.
(The gov slide showing PD in trials)
Their long term vision
https://youtu.be/UePYaYjItuw?t=1262
HNR, wow T.Rat. That is what got my interest in Skin. How crazy was that share. Oil-CBD lol, why not lol?
If true, which I doubt very much it is, it'd be a HUGE NO VOTE from me!