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06
JUL
2017

Meth: some certainty in the haze

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A new standard – NZS 8510:2017 – brings some clarity to testing and decontamination of methamphetamine contaminated properties. Methamphetamine; meth; “P”; “ice”. Whatever you call it, meth is having a significant impact on New Zealand...
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03
JUL
2017

Blitzed: how the Nazi’s conquest of Europe got a chemical boost

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“I demand that you do not sleep for at least three days and nights if that is required,” General Heinz Guderian is said to have told the thousands of German troops who had massed to cross the Meuse river and push into Belgium and France in 1940. The largest motorised unit in...
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03
JUN
2017

September 11: Death toll could rise by millions from ‘toxic’ asbestos dust

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28
MAY
2017

Toxic State – Part 2: The asbestos game

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Misty Mountain, the neighbours called it: a hillock of 33,000 tonnes of waste ridden with asbestos. Sydney had only recently hosted the Olympic Games when the asbestos was dumped illegally behind a plant nursery in the city’s north-west, on land leased by local woman Misty...
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27
MAY
2017

Toxic State – Part 1: What lies beneath

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It’s an unremarkable service station on an unremarkable intersection in a suburb of Sydney. But this station hides a secret. Just a few metres underfoot a plume of dangerous chemicals has been bleeding through the soil for 20 years. It has crept into the groundwater, travelled...
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24
APR
2017

Methamphetamine Remediation Process Explained

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Octief is Australia’s premier hygienist company & specialists at managing the decontamination process. If you find meth in your home call us on 1800 628433 for help.
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19
APR
2017

White-collar workers make up a QUARTER of ice addicts in Australia

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Australia’s ice epidemic has trickled from the streets into corporate offices as the deadly drug makes its way into the veins of high-earning business men and women. White-collar workers now make up a quarter of the country’s ice addicts even with users who work in...
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13
APR
2017

Ice-addicted python just one of hundreds of animals in prison rehabilitation

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PHOTO: The snake absorbed methamphetamine through its skin at an ice lab. (Supplied: CSNSW) An ice-addicted python is among hundreds of animals being rehabilitated at a NSW prison. The jungle python was seized during a police raid of an ice lab where it had absorbed the drug...
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07
APR
2017

Australian Customs released an updated list of questions for imported vehicles

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Last week Australian Customs released an updated list of questions for imported vehicles requiring any asbestos components to be declared / removed at the time of import to Australia. Importing motor vehicles that contain components such as gaskets, brake pads and clutch pads...
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27
MAR
2017

Test for drugs in wastewater reveals ice use is on the rise

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The first results of a $3.6 million program to test for the presence of drugs in wastewater are expected to show that Australians as a whole now consume more methamphetamine (ice, crystal meth) than they do cocaine, and in most areas also more methamphetamine than ecstasy. The...
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19
MAR
2017

Australia is flailing in the face of a meth epidemic

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RARELY does a politician admit that his child is an addict. When Bob Hawke, a former prime minister, did so more than 30 years ago, many parents could identify with him: Australia was sliding towards a nasty heroin problem. Use of the opioid, which became popular during the...
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17
MAR
2017

Five signs your investment property is being used as a drug lab

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If your tenant has used your home as a drug lab the clean up could cost thousand. HUNDREDS of investment properties across Queensland could be meth time bombs with experts warning clean up costs could run into the thousands. Australia’s meth use has tripled in the past five...
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