Environmental Diagnostics Laboratory (EDLab) at Pure Air Control Services was awarded accreditation from A2LA on June 10, 2020 for the testing environmental SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus). This is the virus that causes COVID-19. A2LA is a non-profit accreditation body dedicated to the formal recognition of competent testing and calibration
Read more →The EPA’s analysis of asbestos underestimates the extent to which people are exposed to the mineral and its potential to cause cancer and other diseases, an agency science advisory panel said. “Most exposures are not being captured,” said Henry Anderson, a retired physician serving on the EPA’s
Read more →Candida auris: What to know about the deadly superbug fungus posing a “serious global health threat”
Health officials are warning of “a serious global health threat” from a drug-resistant superbug fungus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the fungus, Candida auris, has already sickened hundreds of people in the United States. Candida auris, which preys on people with weakened immune systems, was
Read more →WEST LOS ANGELES (KABC) — At least 15 residents in a West Los Angeles apartment complex were forced out of their homes after asbestos exposure. The incident happened around 9:48 p.m. in the 1800 block of Prosser Avenue, when authorities determined that 11 of 12 units in
Read more →The project is called House Zero and shows that you don’t have to build new structures from scratch for them to be energy efficient, a Harvard professor said. Imagine a comfortable, livable home where you don’t have to turn on any electric lights during the day, where
Read more →MALIBU, Calif. | PCBs The high school here is ranked among the best in the country, with students each year moving on to Ivy League colleges. The location, on a hill down the block from the beach where “Baywatch” was filmed, offers a multimillion-dollar view of the
Read more →Google announced last week that it will be opening its newest data center — which will be 100 percent powered by renewable energy — at the site of a soon-to-be retired Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) coal plant in Alabama that is being phased out thanks to the
Read more →Because the natural reservoir host of Ebola viruses has not yet been identified scientist speculate on several vectors of virus’s transmission. The way in which the virus first appears in a human at the start of an outbreak is unknown. However, scientists believe that the first patient
Read more →LOS ANGELES — In New York the Director of the CDC resigns after his recent exposure to an Anthrax scare in 3 different labs and mutated strain of bird influenza. Michael Farrell was head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lab since 2009. He submitted
Read more →The Malibu High School and Juan Cabrillo Elementary Schools were recently tested for environmental contaminants after recent complaints from local teachers were expressed. Teachers have been concerned about harmful contaminants within the soil after several teachers developed similar cancers indicating the PCB’s may be the source. Concerns
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