[81] “Heavy load kills worker,” Daily Star, December 4, 2011, http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=212746 (accessed August 1, 2012).

The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer considers leather dust, which is generated when leather impregnated with chemicals undergoes mechanical operations such as buffing, as carcinogenic to humans.[103]

Meru is a man in his early 20s. He showed Human Rights Watch hands that appeared to be those of a very old man. The skin was thick and heavily creased and there was an unnatural white color in the skin creases. Two fingernails of one hand were yellow and corroded away to rough stumps. Meru told Human Rights Watch that his work in the tanneries involves soaking the hides with lime, sodium, and other chemicals and then putting them through machines.

Bar doesn’t have the granularity for measuring bike tyre pressures, there’s a world of difference between 80psi (5.51bar) and 90psi (6.20Bar). Reading that off on every pressure dial I’ve seen would have you squinting to do it in Bar. You need a digital display to accurately use Bar.

If the UP was an SUV capable of dealing with road and gravel, the new WI.DE is a jeep aimed at much more rugged off-road terrain where commonly a mountain bike might be the more obvious choice. 

In 2001, the High Court ordered some factories that the Department of Environment had categorized as heavily polluting to install means to treat their effluent within one year. The High Court was referring to a list of 903 factories—including 176 tanneries—that the department had identified in 1986 as heavy polluters.

[215] The analysis of soil samples found chromium (up to 37000 mg/kg dm), mineral oil, phenols and extractable organohalogen compounds (up to 1200 mg/kgd m): Asociación Cluster de Industrias de Medio Ambiente de Euskadi (ACLIMA), “Application of Innovative Technologies for the Reclamation and Environmental Improvement of Derelict Urban Areas in Dhaka City (Bangladesh),” December 2008. Organohalogens, are a group of compounds that contain a halogen atom (fluorine, chlorine, bromine, or iodine) bonded to a carbon atom. Extractable organohalogen compounds (EOX) is a faction of the total organically bound halogen compounds and some (particularly the organochlorines) have known toxic effects. They include polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), chlorobenzenes and DDT (dichlorodiphenyitrichloroethane).

Foreign companies that source leather produced in Hazaribagh have a crucial role to play in ensuring that Hazaribagh residents are no longer exposed to hazardous chemicals and other forms of pollution, and that tannery workers enjoy safe and healthy workplaces. They should immediately take steps to ensure that they are not implicated in unregulated pollution, violations of occupational health and safety laws, or hazardous child labor through their supplier relationships (including through “job work” tanneries sub-contracted to perform part or all of leather processing).

The bigger the city, the bigger the issue, said Mike Booker, city manager for Daytona Beach Shores. “For us, it’s about $1,000 a month to continue it,” Booker said. “We’re probably going to continue the practice of recycling, having a truck pick it up and store it and hope for the best.”

Doing the same 28mm tyre to 100psi with a trackpump took 40 strokes and 30 seconds – but using arm/back muscles, after several repeats I could really feel the work. There’s a reason cyclists use legs instead of arms to get themselves up hills, and the SKS Airstep uses the body’s largest muscle groups to good effect.

FSME-Immun and Encepur have both been shown to induce high rates of neutralizing antibody seropositivity in clinical studies in adults (3, 4, 8) and children (6, 7). However, comparative immunogenicity evaluations in children have given contradictory results. One study reported that two immunizations with FSME-Immun Junior induced higher neutralizing antibody titers against the Nd virus strain than did immunizations with Encepur Children (6). In contrast, a second study reported that two immunizations with Encepur Children induced higher rates of neutralizing antibodies against the K23 vaccine strain virus than did immunizations with FSME-Immun Junior. However, this difference was significantly reduced when the Nd virus rather than the K23 vaccine strain virus was used to measure neutralizing antibody titers (12).

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