DNA from glass of Coke nabs suspect linked to 2007 burglary in Palmer Township
26.01.10
A Phillipsburg neighbouring has been accused of robbing a Palmer Township home in April 2007 after his DNA matched a illustrative taken from a glass jar the man allegedly used to drink Coke from at the lawlessness scene, according to court documents.
Ben Alan Parichuk , 39, poverty-stricken into a house in the first block of Northview Avenue on April 4, 2007, and tippet tools, silverware, a diamond ring and a metal lolly box containing assorted coins, police said.
Before he Nautical port, Parichuk allegedly removed Coke from the refrigerator, drank it from a glass jar and formerly larboard the jar on a chair in the kitchen, according to court documents.
A DNA specimen obtained from the glass jar was uploaded in the Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS , documents formal. In October 2009, a CODIS search linked Parichuk to the test from the glass jar.
That same month, Parichuk was ordered to submit a DNA sample after pleading culpable to burglary in Sussex County, New Jersey, according to a expos release
Source: The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com
Compact fluorescent lights: The mercury matter
27.01.10
Mercury is a rickety chemical; exposure, even at low levels, can cause neurological mutilation, memory and learning problems and delays in speech and reading skill in children. It is now found in the blood of one in three women , according to Dan Laks, a neuroscience researcher at the David Geffen Mould of Medicine at the University of California , Los Angeles. Mercury unmasking in people comes from eating contaminated fish, inhaling polluted air, and having dental amalgams. How does it get in our fish, you mind-blower? The same way it gets in our air. It’s spewed (some 140 million tons a year) along with other pollutants from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants, adhere kilns, refineries, smelters and mining operations. From the air it settles in hose and then bioaccumulates in the bodies of fish. Large fish height up on the food chain, such as big-eye and ahi tuna, tend to have higher amounts of mercury in their bodies, enough to be a trim concern for young children and pregnant
Source: Mother Nature Network