Water scarcity represents a problem for billions of people and is expected to get worse in the future. To guarantee people’s water needs, use “first-hand water” or reuse wastewater must be done. Wastewater treatment are favorable this purpose, since first-hand scarce economic needs exploration type increasing. In treatment, it important remove contaminants emerging concern, as well pathogenic a...

Infections after orthopedic surgery are a very unwelcome outcome; despite the widespread use of antibiotics, their incidence can be as high as 10%. This risk is likely to increase as antibiotics are gradually losing efficacy as a result of bacterial resistance; therefore, novel antimicrobial approaches are required. Parabens are a class of compounds whose antimicrobial activity is employed in m...

Paper product manufacturing involves a variety of chemicals used either directly in paper and pulp production or in the conversion processes (i.e. printing, gluing) that follow. Due to economic and environmental initiatives, paper recycling rates continue to rise. In Europe, recycling has increased by nearly 20% within the last decade or so, reaching a level of almost 72% in 2012. With increasi...

Some environmental toxins like DDT and other chlorinated compounds accumulate in the body because of their fat-soluble nature. Other compounds do not stay long in the body, but still cause toxic effects during the time they are present. For serious health problems to arise, exposure to these rapidly-clearing compounds must occur on a daily basis. Two such classes of compounds are the phthalate ...

The effect of parabens on the shelf-life of crocetin esters and picrocrocin in aqueous saffron solutions was studied. Degradation of saffron crocetin esters fits a first-order kinetics model, and the results indicated that the crocetin (beta-D-glucosyl)-(beta-D-gentiobiosyl) esters were more stable than the crocetin di-(beta-D-gentiobiosyl) esters regardless of whether trans and cis isomers wer...

BACKGROUND Exposures to environmental phenols and parabens may be harmful, especially in utero. Prior studies have demonstrated high within-person variability of urinary concentrations across pregnancy. OBJECTIVES We sought to measure phenol and paraben biomarker concentrations for the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort (MoBa) study, assess within-person variability, and investigate any possib...

In defense of: • Glycerine (Page 4) • Cetyl Stearyl Alcohol (Page 5) • Animal Products (Beeswax, Lactic acid & Lanolin in one product each) (Page 5) • Para-aminobenzoic Acid (PABA) (Page 5) • Parabens (Page 6) o Hazardous and Useless Alternatives Exposed (Page 8) Silver Chloride (Page 8) Grapefruit Seed Extract [Adulterated with Benzethonium Chloride & Triclosan] (Page 8) In defense of: • Sodiu...