N° 102 – November 2011
Monthly Electronic Newsletter of Sertox (Latin-American Portal of Toxicology) – Year 8

Argentina is implementing a national salt reduction programme likely to be one of simplest and most cost-effective ways of improving public health.Dietary salt reduction was feasible and well accepted in the population and like this is a country wide intervention could have a greater public health impact.(See Spanish article). This agreement will reduce the consumption of salt, one of the major risk factors for cardiovascular disease, a condition that accounts for 48 percent of Chronic Diseases, which annually kill 36 million people worldwide, informed the General Coordination of Public Information and Communication Ministry of Health of the Nation. We celebrate with the logo of this newsletter …In this number you can also read: 1) Pesticides threatening European rivers – time to update the risk list?; 2) Birth Control Pills Containing Drospirenone: Possible Increased Risk of Blood Clots; 3) "Binge drinking results in binge spending," said CDC Director; 4) EPA : Final Health Assessment for TCE; 5) Residency/PhD program in veterinary toxicology in Iowa State University, USA; 6) Asbestos: a Dark Day for Brazil; 7) There is no link between mobile phones and brain cancer; 8) For an improvement in cosmetics regulation in USA. In October we had a record of monthly visitors to our portal this year: 82 627. Until the next issue. JCP