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M I Zuberi
professor
University of Rajshahi
Rajshahi - 6205
Bangladesh
Tel: +880721750041 extn 4118
(office), +88029005522 (res)
Fax: +880721750131 /
+880721750064
Mobile: +880171429255
E-mail: zuberimi@yahoo.com zuberimi@hotmail.com
Website: www.ru.ac.bd
He works for knowledge management and mitigation of environmental pollu-tion, especially
arsenic contamination in rural ecosystems. His aim is to build community efforts for
mitigation of arsenic toxicity from drinking water and conserve ecosystem and diversity
for sustainable development, health and poverty alleviation.
Garga Chatterjee
president
Consciousness Alliance
78, Chetle Road, Dipanwita W-1/5,
Kolkata, 700027
West Bengal, India
Mobile: 9830227522
e-mail : drgarga@vsnl.net
She heads a non-governmental organi-sation
that takes part in neurology, psychiatry and neurotoxicology research and discussions. Her
recent projects have focussed on arsenic, phenomenology, visual perception and geriatric
psychiatry. The objective is to understand human mind and envisage ways of alleviating
human suffering from the knowledge so gained. |
Readers write in
Thank you for the newsletter. Also many thanks for
the lead article, the subject of which is the most serious threat to public health. The
newsletter is attractive and useful.
Wishing it a long life
M I Zuberi
professor
University of Rajshahi
Rajshahi - 6205
Bangladesh
E-mail: zuberimi@yahoo.com
Some months ago, you had carried a brief of my
study on carbonated soft drinks and reflux-induced increase in adenocarcinoma of the
oesophagus in Americans. Unfortunately, I went on leave and the issue was lost. This week,
I received Jan-Feb 2005 copy of the magazine.
I wish to let you all know that during the process of my reaserch, I realised that the
carbonated soft drink industry is producing huge amounts of CO 2 . Every 1,000 ml of a
drink has 4,000 ml of CO 2 . Furthermore, a lot of CO 2 gas escapes during packing and
carbona-tion. In short, it is my rough estimate that for every 500 ml of a soft drink, the
industry produces at least five to six times the volume of CO 2 . Given the fact that the
industry makes billions of litres of soft drinks, it also releases five to six times CO 2
into our environment.
Someone from your agency could take up this issue and get exact figures. After all, little
drops of water make a mighty ocean.
Dr Mohandas
department of digestive diseases and clinical nutrition
Tata Memorial Hospital
Mumbai 400012
E-mail: mohandaskm@vsnl.net
Happy to see and read newsletter from CSE, in
particular Vol 3 No 1. The problem of arsenic in India seems to be a very serious one and
may force our scientists to solve it. Other con-tents are also very much informative and
useful for the readers. I appreciate the quality of this magazine.
Dr V K Saxena
deupty director & scientist ' F '
National Geophysical Research Institute,
Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500007
E-mail: vks_9020010@yahoo.co.in
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