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Downstream fish consumption advisories decline.


DOWNSTREAM FISH CONSUMPTION ADVISORIES DECLINE. The Alliance for Environmental Technology (AET AET Aetna, Inc.
AET After Extra Time
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AET Alliance for Environmental Technology
AET Alpha-Ethyltryptamine
AET Applied Extrusion Technologies, Inc.
), Washington DC, stated that none of the new dioxin dioxin

Aromatic compound, any of a group of contaminants produced in making herbicides (e.g., Agent Orange), disinfectants, and other agents. Their basic chemical structure consists of two benzene rings connected by a pair of oxygen atoms; when substituents on the rings are
 fish consumption advisories posted in the US during 2004 were downstream of a bleached chemical pulp mill. According to AET, over the past 15 years there has been a continuing trend toward the lifting of fish advisories and consequent ecosystem recovery; AET credits the trend to the virtual elimination of dioxin discharges resulting from elimination of chlorine in favor of chlorine dioxide chlorine dioxide,
n an oxidizing agent used in oral care to decrease amounts of volatile sulfur compounds that may cause halitosis.
 in the first stage of chemical pulp bleaching, elemental chlorine-free (ECF (Enhanced Connectivity Facilities) IBM software that allows DOS PCs to query and download data from mainframes and issue mainframe commands. It also allows printer output to be directed from the PC to the mainframe. ). The latest removals of fish consumption advisories in the states of Florida and Washington bring the total to 27. This number represents a 90% decline in the total number of these advisories in place downstream of bleached chemical pulp and paper mills at the end of 1990.
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