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SOUTH AFRICA – Allmech, leading South African manufacturer of boilers and supplier of water treatment components, has been testing a new PLC system with in-house developed software to run its ion exchange demineralisation (demin) plant, with encouraging results. Demineralisation removes dissolved solids (total dissolved solids or TDS) and mineral ions from feed water and process streams. Demin plants typically use…
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GLOBAL – A new Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) publication has revealed that Micro- and nanoplastics have been detected in fishery products and other food commodities, raising concerns about their impact on human health. The document, titled Microplastics in food commodities – A food safety review on human exposure through dietary sources, outlines the existing literature on the occurrence of…
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SOUTH AFRICA/NIGERIA – Over the past two months, new outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF) have been recorded in seven provinces of South Africa and some Southern States of Lagos and Abia in Nigeria. Additional 13 ASF occurrences have been formally reported by South Africa’s veterinary agency to the World Organization for Animal Health since the end of August (WOAH).…
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