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                    [Title] => Fish be with you
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I grew up in the beautiful fishing town of Estancia, Iloilo, located in the northeastern tip of Panay, overlooking the Visayan Sea. Thus, as I remember, we always had fish for our meals — seven days a week!

[DatePublished] => 2010-03-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133436 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1778504 [AuthorName] => Tyrone M. Reyes M.D. [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/2486/lif1thumbm.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 552298 [Title] => Global effort to eliminate PCBs hailed [Summary] =>

Environmental organizations have lauded the unveiling of a global mechanism that would help countries, including the Philippines, address the “highly toxic” industrial chemical PCB or polychlorinated biphenyl.

[DatePublished] => 2010-02-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097177 [AuthorName] => Katherine Adraneda [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 61775 [Title] => Protecting ourselves against cancer-causing chemicals [Summary] =>

With the toxins in the food we eat, the water we drink, and the very air we breathe, it comes like a breath of fresh air that the Philippines, in an earthshaking move, is addressing the serious health and environmental threats from the country’s stockpiles of obsolete industrial chemicals found mainly in old electrical transformers.

[DatePublished] => 2008-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133914 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096607 [AuthorName] => Ching M. Alano [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 55039 [Title] => Pinoy researchers develop simple oxidation tech to degrade PCBs [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-04-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804518 [AuthorName] => Ghio Ong [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 246245 [Title] => Importation, use of PCBs monitored [Summary] => The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will now strictly monitor the importation and use of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).

In line with this, Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Elisea Gozun has issued Administrative Order 2004-01, or the chemical control order, that provides the guidelines for the proper utilization, disposal and storage of PCBs, including the clean-up of PCB-contaminated sites.
[DatePublished] => 2004-04-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097368 [AuthorName] => Mike Frialde [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 131711 [Title] => Rockwell’s dirty secret [Summary] =>
(Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism)
Barely a year since its centerpiece mall formally opened in December 2000, the Rockwell Center of the Lopez Group of Companies already has a reputation as the place to be for those who have made it. The 15-hectare commercial and residential compound in upscale Makati City is so exclusive, even the air there seems to smell of money.
[DatePublished] => 2001-08-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1787417 [AuthorName] => Vinia Datinguinoo [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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