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Salt Institute

Morton Satin
Dick Hanneman
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The Salt Institute is the world's foremost source of authoritative information about salt (sodium chloride) and its more than 14,000 known uses. The Institute is a North American-based non-profit salt industry trade association dedicated to advocating responsible uses of salt (NaCl), particularly to ensure winter roadway safety, quality water and healthy nutrition.

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Recent blog posts from Salt Institute

The whole truth

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I'm recently returned from the India-International Salt Summit in India and so my eye caught the news that, in the wake of ClimateGate, India has withdrawn from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).  India's environmental minister, Jairam Ramesh, was...

Iodizing salt best investment to avoid a "poor start to life" World Bank

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Harold Alderman of the World Bank estimates the payback for investments in iodizing salt to return between $12 and $30 for every dollar invested.  The study was just published in  the Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease.  Iodizing...

Clear those sidewalks!

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As a member of the National Transportation Operations Coalition, yesterday I attended an FHWA-hosted meeting of NTOC members to discuss how improving highway operations can contribute to the Federal Highway Administration's goals for "sustainability" and "livability."  (FHWA's other two goals...

Angels and Demons

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No this post doesn't concern Dan Brown's best-selling mystery novel by this title nor even reference the seasonally-referenced celestial battle presaging the birth of Christ which celebration is quickly upon us. But, like the engaging plot of a quick-read novel...

FHWA report finds improvement needed for road weather performance management

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The Federal Highway Administration's Office of Operations has published an important benchmarking report on use of performance measures which assesses state DOT adoption and effectiveness of harnessing new techniques and technologies to improve roadway operations impaired by adverse weather conditions.As...