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Head of private water-sampling company going to prison for fraud in North Carolina

Posted Thu, 2012/11/08 - 11:16am by RCAP

For over five years the defendant provided false water sampling to customers

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – On Tuesday, October 23, 2012, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced Linda Knox, 50, of Marshall, N.C., to 33 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release for committing mail fraud, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Reidinger also ordered Knox to pay $22,056 as restitution to victims.

New resource for labs on testing during a radiation emergency

Posted Fri, 2012/08/17 - 9:42am by RCAP

Very few, if any, U.S. laboratories possess the capacity to analyze the large number of samples that would arise during a radiation emergency on U.S. soil. Given such limited capacity, decision makers and laboratory directors face difficult decisions about the order in which samples are analyzed. A new document developed by the National Alliance for Radiation Readiness (with significant leadership from the Association of Public Health Laboratories) provides an overview of some considerations that decision makers might include in the prioritization process.

EPA to expand chemicals testing for endocrine disruption

Posted Wed, 2010/11/17 - 3:33pm by RCAP

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified a list of 134 chemicals that will be screened for their potential to disrupt the endocrine system. Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that interact with and possibly disrupt the hormones produced or secreted by the human or animal endocrine system, which regulates growth, metabolism and reproduction. Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has made it a top priority to ensure the safety of chemicals, and this is another step in this process.