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Good News For Consumers America & Canada Impose
Huge Antidumping Copper-Tariffs The U.S.
Department of Commerce (DOC) finally cracked down on America’s toxic-copper
dumping-racket: "Zhejiang
Hailiang, China’s largest publicly traded copper- tube maker, faces
preliminary U.S. duties of 58.69 percent, the department said in a statement.
Other Chinese makers will pay an average of 34.48 percent. IUSA is subject to
29.52 percent, with other Mexican companies paying an average 30.9 percent."
(Quote from: “Zhejiang,
IUSA Face U.S. Duties on Copper Pipe” by Mark Drajem, May
06, 2010, Bloomberg)
See litigation history in Mueller’s
FORM 10-K (2/23/10) & Mueller’s
NSF-61 Restriction Statement. |
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Excellent News For Consumers Huge
antidumping tariffs should end trafficking in counterfeit copper, brass &
GFX products such as: Power-Pipe
by RENEWABILITY & DOUCETTE
INDUSTRIES, ECO-GFX &
THERMODRAIN by ECOINNOVATION & GFX-Lite
by WATERCYCLES. All existing, uncertified counterfeits should be recalled if
made with uncertified, dumped-copper discovered by American & Canadian
investigators, e.g.: “Four Copper Tube Actions were filed in October 2004
in state court in California and were consolidated to become the
Indirect-Purchaser Plumbing Tube Action” & “Canadian Dumping and Countervail Investigation…In June 2006, the Canada Border Services Agency
(CBSA) initiated an investigation into the alleged dumping of certain copper
pipe fittings from the United States and from South Korea, and the dumping
and subsidizing of these same goods from China. The Company and
certain affiliated companies were identified by the CBSA as exporters and
importers of these goods.” & related consumer
complaints such as “Powerpipe is made with recycled copper from China…How does
HOMEDEPOT EXPLAIN THIS?” (Quotes from MUELLER
INDUSTRIES’ FORM 10-K (2/23/10)& www.gfxtechnology.com/EEA.html, respectively.) |
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Tips For Testing Existing
Plumbing Systems for Non-Radioactive Lead-204, 206, 207, 208
As indicated in Fig. A, Lead
Check Aqua II and other LeadCheck products make it possible to
test your entire plumbing system for toxic metals; including non-radioactive Lead
(Pb), which is a billion times less
toxic than radioactive Lead-210, for example. As noted in Footnote #1,
harmful Pb-210 levels are far below the sensitivity of Lead Check Aqua II, so it’s important to
remove all uncertified, dumped-copper from your home. If your plumbing system
is free of dumped-copper and every pipe, fitting, water heater, appliance,
tank & heat exchanger is NSF61-certified, there will be no contaminants
from E- or N-Waste. If you do find Lead in your plumbing or water, contact
your local health department to request an XRF Inspection & Comprehensive Water Analysis
for other contaminants found in uncertified plumbing and/or water
distribution systems. For added safety, consider NSF-certified filters like
those discussed in "Three
Simple Steps to Clean, Safe Drinking Water". |
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Little Known Consumers Risks
That Should Be Eliminated By Antidumping Tariffs |
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Fig. B has a
link to the Danze
Faucet Website with
safety tips plus warnings like these: “If
a faucet is certified, it will be marked accordingly. If a faucet is NOT
CERTIFIED, it will bear no markings. The best way to figure this out is start
by looking at the aerator, this is where the water comes out of the spout. No
markings - no certification. The next place to look is on the back of the
spout between the valves or on the deckplate of the faucet. Again, no
markings, no certification”...“Certification
of a simple faucet is a lengthy and costly process, it may cost a
manufacturer up to $15,000 US dollars….” Such warnings certainly apply to
gravity-film heat exchangers -- which unlike faucets, must be certified to
isolate potable water from sewage for the life of a plumbing system. For this
reason, years
before California and Vermont banned brass containing Lead after 2009 and
related antidumping tariffs were levied shortly thereafter, WaterFilm Energy
terminated several manufacturing and/or listing agreements with unscrupulous
companies that sold uncertified GFX-products with counterfeit or no UL, ETL or IAPMO labels -- including DWHRMA members now
falsely claiming: ”No 3rd
Party certification (example: UL, ETL, INTERTEK or CSA) standard exists for
Drain Water Heat Recovery”. In
truth, all DWHRMA members were informed that UL created UL File SA8583 in July of 1992 for heat reclaimers developed on our
U.S. DOE Grant specifically for "Drain Water Heat Recovery". All subsequent ETL & IAPMO
certifications are based on this 1992 DWHR certification standard. Such
unscrupulous manufacturers not only save money by avoiding high costs of
certifying and maintaining certifications by NSF, UPC, C/UPC, IAPMO, TEV, ASME or
ASTM, they also save production costs by using cheap, uncertified and/or
dumped-copper. Hundreds of uncertified GFX’s have been shipped with
counterfeit UL, ETL or IAPMO labels, but have not been recalled – even after
UL & ETL-investigators requested these Photos and
consumer complaints appeared on the Internet -- for obvious reasons; any recall
could involve a billion dollars in other uncertified, dumped-copper products
once concerned parents learn: “No
markings - no certification.” |
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Footnote
1: Dangers of Recycled Radioactive Lead (Pb) Did you know Radioactive
Lead-210 is a billion times more toxic than non-radioactive Lead-204 and its
concentration can only be measured with sensitive radiation detectors;
something not done with contaminated Chinese or Mexican copper dumped in
America then smuggled into Canada for potable water applications? Did you know the MCL
for Pb-210 is only 0.0136 picograms per liter (pg/L), which emits 1.2
picocuries per liter (pCi/L) of radiation --- the lowest by far of all
radioactive compounds listed in the Table of Detected Compounds on page 5 of
this Drinking
Water Report for 2002 -- such as Cs-137 (200
pCi/L or 2 pg/L), Sr-89 (8 pCi/L or 0.00028pg/L) & Sr-90 (8 pCi/L or
0.053pg/L)? Did you know in
2009 alone, $463 million worth of copper water
tube was dumped on American consumers; $233M from China; $130M from Mexico? Did you know these countries,
Malaysia and others allow the use of copper recycled from sources not allowed
in America, such as scrap-copper from incinerators, junkyards, nuclear
reactors/submarines AND
dumped-copper can contain highly toxic substances from E- & N-Waste such
as: Cadmium (Cd), Beryllium (Be), Mercury (Hg), Lead (Pb), Cesium (Cs),
Bismuth(Bi), Uranium (U), Radium (Ra) and their most deadly isotopes? Did
you know the EPA-MCL for
non-radioactive Pb-204 is 15 micrograms/liter (ug/L or ppb); the sensitivity
of
Lead
Check Aqua II? Did
you know NSF-61 leaching
standards are supposed to guard consumers against the use of recycled copper
containing all Lead isotopes? Did you know smuggling uncertified
copper and copper goods between America & Canada is necessary because
Canadian health officials require third-party certification even if they bear
authentic NSF-61 certification marks? (See photos of Uncertified
GFX Models sold with counterfeit UL labels.) Sources of Radioactive
E- & N-Waste
Did
you know the EPA allows
incinerators to burn E- & N-waste then sell their radioactive scrap metal
to recyclers, according to the NY Times story discussed in an August 2010
Internet article: "State Orders Islip Landfill
Capped…$16 Million Dollar Deadline"? Did you know America is a leading supplier
of “green” E-waste for the global black market
and untold tons of contaminated copper recycled from 130,000 computers &
300,000 cell-phones trashed each day in America alone can end up back in
America’s plumbing systems? ("What an E-Waste", pg. 72, IEEE Spectrum, September 2010)
Did you know a liquid Lead-Bismuth alloy is used to
cool some military nuclear reactors? ("Small Modular Reactors", pg. 29, IEEE Spectrum, August
2010)
Did you know Pb-210 & Bi-214 are found in well water
near nuclear weapons facilities like the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)
on Long Island, NY?
Is it a surprise
that Pb-210 and Bi-214 are found in groundwater, streams & public
drinking water wells near BNL, according to these reports: (a) Radiological
BNL-Groundwater Contamination, (b) 2005
BNL Health Assessment, (c) 2009
BNL Water Quality Report, (d) 2003 SCWA Drinking Water Report ,
pg. 12?
1.
NOTE:
Public well analyses used to compile Table-A
reveal the Old Neck Road in Center
Moriches had only 1.1 ug/L of
Pb-204 in 2000, but a whopping 1240 pCi/L (14 pg/L) of Pb-210 – over a thousand
times its MCL!
2.
This toxic well is
one of several near BNL’s groundwater plumes, yet the EPA failed to order it
capped as required by the Safe Drinking Water Act -- they simply removed
testing requirement for Pb-210 and other radioactive isotopes, as shown in
these well analyses: 2001,
2002,
2004,
2005,
2006,
2007,
etc.
3.
Similarly, the SCWA
well feeding Center Moriches & Mastic on Lambert
Ave had only 3 ug/L of Pb-204
in 2002, but a whopping 1080 pCi/L of Pb-210, with a 14-test average of 77.1
pCi/L, but was not removed from service.
4.
Nor was the SCWA
well on Country
Club Drive in Shirley – which had
only 1.6 ug/L of total Lead in 2002, but a whopping 750 pCi/L of Pb-210, with
a 20-sample average of 37.5 pCi/L, or Mastic's Main
Street well -- which
had 20 pCi/L of Pb-210 in 2002, with a12-test average of 1.7 pCi/L and no
Pb-204 detected.
Is it any wonder California & Vermont banned lead
in brass after December 2009 and Mastic, Center Moriches & Shirley have abnormally
high cancer rates according to Welcome to Shirley by Kelly McMasters? Ask your Congressman & Senator when the other 48 states will follow
suite & issue recalls covering a billion dollars worth of uncertified
copper & brass products smuggled into U.S. & Canadian market since
the price of copper skyrocketed as the U.S. dollar plummeted and politicians
opened America’s borders to recycled E- & N-Waste? |
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