Status: 11/21/2022 3:42 p.m Nitrous oxide is becoming increasingly popular among young people, according to the European Drugs Monitoring Center. The fact that many inhale the over-the-counter gas for a short intoxication can have dangerous consequences - including paraplegia. More and more young people are inhaling nitrous oxide as a drug. In a recent report, the European Drug Monitoring Center (EMCDDA) warns of a new trend in many EU countries. "The growing use of nitrous oxide for cheering up in...
fad among young people 63 fatal accidents in three years: Netherlands ban nitrous oxide A street vendor sells balloons filled with nitrous oxide (stock image) © Annette Birschel / DPA The Netherlands will ban the possession and sale of nitrous oxide from 2023. It will be included on the list of prohibited intoxicants. In recent years, the gas had developed into a fashionable drug, especially among young people. The Netherlands put nitrous oxide on the list of prohibited intoxicants. From...
The environmental zone will be extended to the Mittlerer Ring in the coming year. Particularly dirty combustion cars will no longer be allowed to drive there - but there are exceptions. source site
In 2020, waste treatment plant du Mirail, in Toulouse, emitted as much nitrogen oxide "as the three largest French incinerators put together". This is according to the Toulouse branch of the NGO Zero Waste (Zero waste) after having compiled and compared public reports. She published this Wednesdaythe result of his research.According to the report, the Mirail incinerator – commissioned in 1969, making it one of the oldest in operation in France – emitted 322 tonnes of nitrogen oxide (NOx) in...
A worrying success. For the past two years, “laughing gas” has experienced a real boom, especially in certain evenings where it is inhaled by consumers in search of its euphoric effects. While the use of nitrous oxide was very marginal in the 1990s, this gas is now the subject of “organized trafficking”, assures the deputy spokesman for the judicial police, William Hippert.The reason is partly economic. The small metal cartridge of "proto" as it is called, costs only fifty euro...
Last June, a law governing the sale of nitrous oxide to minors came into force. However, this has not had the effect of reducing a very widespread practice in France today, whereas it was still marginal there two years ago. If doctors have little hindsight to understand all the health consequences of frequent use of this gas, many agree that the disorders associated with the regular consumption of proto can be serious, even irreversible. At the Lille University Hospital (CHU),...
On December 31, 2021, the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes renewed an order, issued in July, to prohibit, among other things, "the misuse of nitrous oxide gas for recreational purposes in public spaces". With this measure, minors are even prohibited from owning one. Since June 1, a law prohibits “the sale (or supply) of nitrous oxide” to people under 18, whether in shops or on the Internet. Necessary measures in the face of a practice that has increased over the past...
This is the largest seizure ever made in France of this gas whose use is diverted. In a hangar in Noisiel, in Seine-et-Marne, the investigators of the departmental security of the Rhône got their hands on 16 tons of nitrous oxide bottles, or 6.8 tons of encapsulated gas. Shortly before this exceptional discovery, made on December 9, the police arrested two men and took them into police custody. One of them, 34 years old and already known to their services,...
Residues of ethylene oxide were found in a dietary supplement. The disinfectant is considered carcinogenic and mutagenic. (Image: Lothar Drechsel / stock.adobe.com) Disinfectant residues in this dietary supplement The Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety and a manufacturer of dietary supplements are informing about a recall. Residues of the disinfectant ethylene oxide were detected in the affected products. The chemical is considered to be carcinogenic and mutagenic. In the EU, ethylene oxide may not be used if it...
[ad_1] Pauline * will remember it all her life. It was 5.30 a.m. the night of August 13-14 when she and her companion woke up with screams. “It was a mess in the middle of the crossroads, there were at least 10 young people yelling. I saw one with a metal baton chasing another. My boyfriend saw guys just below our window hiding behind the trash containers. And there another came up to them, pulled out a gun and started...
