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Lots of harmful factors that are detrimental to human health exist around people and they are becoming the causes of different diseases. So it arises as an important issue in protecting the people’s health and providing excellent living conditions to channel efforts into environmental hygiene.

The Environmental Hygienic Institute of the Academy of Medical Sciences is directing efforts to research for establishing a method of analyzing such harmful factors and setting hygienic standards to ensure cleaner and healthy environment.

In recent years, the institute has made lots of achievements including the establishment of air conditioning technology which can ensure proper indoor environment and the establishment of a method of quickly and accurately examining and assessing foodstuffs.

A data browsing program and a book related to food additives developed and written by the institute are widely propagated as they provide valuable information for the domestic production of such additives and development of children’s nutrition boosters as well as for the hygienic safety of foodstuffs.

The institute used montmorillonite powder, powdered tourmaline, vermiculite powder, Kumgang medicinal stone powder and an active additive to make medical supplies and sanitary goods, which are also popular with people. The medical supplies designed to be easy to use are effective in preventing and treating different diseases as they are based on the organic combination of far-infrared rays, anion emission and magnetic field action and improve the physiological functions of the human body.

Various kinds of products made by the institute won domestic patents.

“As society develops and the people’s material and cultural life improves, their demand for natural environment, living environment and working conditions further grows and environmental hygiene has to be improved accordingly. Our research work is being further intensified to contribute to the promotion of the people’s health and the improvement of environmental hygiene,” said Choe Myong Chol, deputy director of the institute.