Consumers Focus on the Fundamentals of Cooking Outside this National Barbecue Month

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Also look out for FireMagic cooking demos this month on our Up Coming Event’s Calendar

R. H. Peterson Company Sets the Pace at Orlando HPBExpo

R. H. Peterson Co presented an impressive line-up of new and existing products during the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Exposition (HPBExpo) in Orlando, FL held March 13-16.  Please view the video below:

Congratulations to Mark Lindsey of Lindsay of Lindsay Construction in Clancy, MT.  T he winners of the 2013 Fire Magic raffle at the International Builders show in Las Vegas, NV.

They are now the proud owners of a Fire Magic E660s-2E1P!

UC Davis study says it found source of air pollutants

“What distinguishes us is that we’re actually sampling right from the atmosphere in the way we breathe,” Wexler said. “Because you don’t put your mouth up against a tailpipe.”

Establishing a picture of what toxic brew is in the atmosphere and what sources it originates from, plus how those chemicals react, is key to fine-tuning environmental regulation, as well as the costs borne from it, said Will Barrett, policy manager with the American Lung Society.

“The findings are significant in that they underscore the importance of controls on things like wood burning and transportation sources of the most harmful particles that affect the Valley,” said Barrett.

“This is especially important for the Central Valley since it is facing some of the more daunting air quality challenges in the nation, particularly due to fine-particulate pollution,” Barrett said.

Wexler said the research is seen as a tool for regulatory agencies. “This was one of my objectives – to help regulators figure out which sources to regulate so that we’re primarily regulating sources that have a high toxicity and not so much the sources of low toxicity,” he said.

Someday, the research may have an effect on mitigating asthma rates.

An estimated 11.9 percent of Californians report that they have been diagnosed with asthma at some point in their lives, compared to the national average of 10.1 percent, according to California Air Resources Board data.

The UC Davis research sampled air in Fresno during four weeks in the summer of 2008 and four during the winter of 2009. Mice were exposed to the samples of toxic particulate matter that were captured in order to establish what effect the particles had on their lungs.

The research found that in summer the culprits causing the most toxic air pollution were vehicle emissions and the use of charcoal briquets. Biomass burning for winter heating and vehicle emissions were identified as the worst culprits in the winter.

The recent evolution of instruments known as single particle mass spectrometers made the study possible. Those instruments analyze the composition of chemicals in the atmosphere and 10 of them were used in the study.

“That let us look at the chemical composition of these particles very quickly,” Wexler said.

Though promising, Wexler said, the research is preliminary.

“We need more studies – this is the first time anyone has done anything like this. Other people need to do similar studies, using the same instrumentation, and in other cities to make sure the results are robust,” he said. “Because you’re not going to make any big regulatory moves based on one experiment.”

By DAWN WOTAPKA and ROBBIE WHELAN

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Fire Magic’s new Echelon grill

Interesting Health Quiz from Parade Magazine.
by Colleen Oakley
[Illustration by: Chip Wass]

Question # 8:  True or false: Artificial gas-log fireplaces are typically safer than wood-burning fireplaces.

Answer:  Several studies have found that natural wood smoke contains at least five known human carcinogens. If you have a wood-burning fireplace, you can make it less harmful by burning hardwood, such as ash or beech, which emits lower levels of damaging particles compared with softwood like pine.

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http://www.parade.com/health/quiz/winter-health-safety-quiz.html

Esquire magazine and Made Collection

have launched the Great American Things holiday gift collection.
A collection of 48 products including the Fire Magic Echelon Diamond E790, that are made in the USA and certified “damn good” by Esquire. The collection is featured in the Esquire December issue and on the Made Collection website. See the complete collection and the specific product profile atMadeCollection.com The product description was written by grilling guru and Esquirecontributor Steven Raichlen (you’ll recall we provided a Fire Magic Echelon Diamond for his BBQ University class)