Did you know that because food and drink manufacturing is an international business with ingredients often coming from many different counties, a ‘hard’ Brexit might mean that many companies’ supply chains might not comply with the EU’s future ‘origin’ requirements – with dire …
Politics
The case for wired communication
No – for once I am not sounding off about the dangers of wireless (wifi) communication – instead I am directing you to a paper published by the National Institute for Science, Law & Public Policy, a non-profit based in Washington, D.C. 'whose mission is to reconcile legal …
Rat study links increased cancer risk to mobile phone exposure
A $25 million National Toxicology Program study on rats and mice, the results of which were published earlier this month, was designed to test the widely held assumption that non-ionizing radiofrequency radiation (from mobile/cell phones) could not cause health effects at low …
More Brexit concerns – this time for those who are chemically sensitive
Those of you who are sensitive to chemicals, synthetic perfumes, air fresheners, foam rubber, weedkillers, commercial oil paints, fire resistant furniture and carpets, MDF........... – or those of you who read the article by Maxima Skelton in the last newsletter – may have heard …
Harvesting seaweed in County Sligo
Just off Streedagh beach looking onto Donegal Bay – the most amazing collection of edible seaweeds: sugar kelp, dulse, sea spaghetti, pepper dulse, carrageenan, sea lettuce, velvet horn, bladderwrack, alaria and a very pretty pink seaweed (erect coralline) which is also pure …