March 3, 2010
A recent article in the Archives
of Internal Medicine highlights one of the pitfalls
of inadequate monitoring of the dietary supplement
industry. Selenium levels more than 200 fold higher
than those listed on product labeling were contained
in one dietary supplement liquid, leading to toxic
level exposure in over 200 individuals. I have
recorded these findings in my article “More
Carefully Scrutiny Encouraged for Purification and
Quantitative Testing of Nutritional Supplements”
which can be found here.
Gary Witman, MD
February 2, 2010
Dynamic's Role in
Stopping China from Winning the Green-Tech War
In the February 8th edition of
Fortune Magazine there is an excellent piece by
Brian Dumaine entitled "Will China Win the Green-Tech
War?"
Not if Dynamic Adsorbents can
help it!
But we are a small company --
what can be done to stop China from “winning the war”?
A lot!!
Every day the DAI team is
working on solutions that will allow America to
remain at the forefront of the green revolution.
DrysphereTM, when used as
directed, is the world’s best desiccant. Well
characterized, it provides the best means to dry up
industrial gases and is an answer for point of use
and point of delivery enhancement of hydrogen fuels.
Hydrogen may become an important source of energy
for powering transportation.
Superior methods for scrubbing
out nitrous and sulfur dioxides are essential for
clean coal. While no method of cleaning coal is
fool-proof, the coal supply in the United States may
provide a means for power generation for the next
200 years.
With burial of nuclear fuels at
Yucca Mountain now dead, attention is being refocused
on the collection of spent nuclear materials for
reuse. Our Dyna-AquaTM Uranium can clean up low grade
nuclear waste found in groundwater, surface water
and surface soils. This soaked up waste can then
potentially be safely destroyed or reused. Assuring
that low grade nuclear materials do not get into the
environment will allow nuclear energy to again be considered as an additional source for
electricity production to fuel America.
By designing specialized
activated alumina, Dynamic will be at the forefront
in the use of new high density lithium batteries,
with the lithium packed tightly into alumina spheres
increasing density and shrinking the size of the
batteries.
We welcome the chance to team up
with other innovators in ensuring that in
the short and long run, we can remain at the
technical forefront and generate the jobs to keep
the green revolution here in North America.
Gary Witman, MD
January 29, 2010
We make our adsorbents fit your
applications, not your applications fit our
adsorbents
This is the mission statement of
our company. Simple in concept, rational in scope
and critical to you as a separation scientist. We do
more that produce the best adsorbents. We ourselves
are separation scientists, and recognize the issues
that you address day in and day out.
This company was founded because
of a commercial void in the separation science
community. There was a need to work with scientists
to provide the best separation solution. Finding
separation answers led to our designing the new
Dyna-AquaTM line of products and to refining the
techniques for modifying surface, particle
distribution, and pore sizes using activated
alumina.
We welcome your calls. Almost
daily we receive calls from separation scientists at
the collegiate, university or industrial level of
people who are having problems with their current
adsorbents. They purchased from other vendors based
on price. Often they have obtained an adsorbent
manufactured overseas at what was a terrific price.
However once they use the product they find that it
is filled with fines, heavy metals, other
contaminants, or that it breaks down in an acidic or
basic pH setting or that it cannot withstand the
temperatures demanded for superior performance.
These calls are the mainstay of
the business. We never take an “I told you so”
approach. All of us have been tempted by pricing as
a primary consideration when acquiring adsorbents.
Aren’t they approaching a commodity item? Shouldn’t
we be able to purchase alumina and silica in an
interchangeable fashion based on pricing alone?
I go back to our mission
statement – we make our adsorbents fit your
applications, not your applications fit our
adsorbents.
Spend some time with our staff.
You may be very pleasantly surprised by the results
of your endeavor.
Dr. Mark Moskovitz
January 27, 2010
One week left on special sale
items. No assurance that this price will ever be
available for these superior adsorbent products.
Stock up now. No justification to say that you are
sorry that you did not take advantage of the
opportunity. If you have money in your budget and
want to be prudent with your resources now is the
time to buy.
January 19, 2010
If you follow the growth of our
company then you realize how passionate we are about
the use of alumina for purification in the
separation sciences – this includes the spectrum of
pharmaceutical, industrial, environmental,
nutraceutical and just plain basis research. We just
love to play with and manipulate activated alumina.
We modify it, reshape it and alter particle and pore
size – in fact, you could think of us as molecular
metallurgists!
In our commitment to our loyal
client base it our promise to continually expand our
product line. We have listened to your feedback and
wish to address your most pressing needs. In the
very near future we will be announcing the offering
of a superior 1 micron sized activated alumina
particle for ultra high pressure, high resolution
separations. Pumps and columns are now available to
utilize this exciting new Dynamic product. Until now
the limiting factor has been the adsorbent. Soon all
of this will change.
What else is on the horizon for
this year? New materials will be entering the
marketplace to address your proteinomic purification
requirements. New biocides bound to activated
alumina and integrated with non-woven fiber
materials for extremely broad anti-infective
applications.
Our ideas are boundless. One by
one we will deliver these exciting new solutions to
you.
Dr. Mark Moskovitz
January 15, 2010
Like the rest of the business
community, we at DAI feel strongly for the people of
Haiti in their desperate time of need. We are in
contact with officials to donate technology and
supplies to assist with their water purification and
other needs, and urge all businesses and individuals
to do what they can to assist Haitian earthquake
victims, and the people and organizations attempting
to assist them. Below you will find the many
organizations offering assistance, with direct links
to donate, in addition to the link below from the
Whitehouse.
Whatever all of us can do will
be extremely helpful and your support will be
greatly appreciated.
Dr. Mark Moskovitz
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The
American Red Cross.
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UNICEF
or
1-800-4UNICEF.
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Wyclef
Jean's foundation,
Yele Haiti. Text "Yele" to 501501 and $5
will be charged to your phone
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Operation
USA or
1-800-678-7255
or, by check made out to
Operation USA,
3617 Hayden Ave, Suite A, Culver City, CA 90232.
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Save
The Children
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International Medical Corps or 800-481-4462
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Ben Stiller's
Stillerstrong campaign
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Partners
In Health
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Clinton
Foundation or text HAITI to 20222 to donate
$10.
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Mercy Corps, or
1-888-256-1900
or send checks to
Mercy Corps Haiti arthquake Fund; Dept NR; PO
Box 2669; Portland, OR 97208.
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Doctors Without Borders
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Direct Relief
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Oxfam
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UN World Food Programme
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Baptist Haiti Mission
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International Medical Corps
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Catholic Relief Services
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American Jewish World Service's Earthquake
Relief Fund.
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CARE
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Orphans International America
PayPal.
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The International Rescue Committee
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NetHope
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The Haitian Health Foundation
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World Vision
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The Jewish Federations of North America
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United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF)
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Friends of the Orphans, or
888-201-8880
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World Concern's
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Merlin USA
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The Salvation Army or
1-800-SAL-ARMY.
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American Refugee Committee or read about
their
volunteer opportunities.
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AmeriCares or call
1-800-486-HELP.
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Handicap International
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Episcopal Relief & Development.
1-800-334-7626, ext. 5129 or
mail to
Episcopal
Relief & Development, PO Box 7058, Merrifield,
VA 22116-7058.
January 11, 2010
2010 is starting off with a
bang, and the entire management team and support
staff at DAI are most grateful. Over the course of
the past three years we have continued to expand our
line of high quality products for the separation
sciences and the pharmaceutical and environmental
science industries. How successful are we becoming?
In the first week of this year we have done 15 x
more in sales than we achieved in the entire month
of January just three days ago. In part this sales
success is a reflection of the expansion of the
Dynamic product line. Even more importantly our
loyal client base has continued to expand the use of
our products and our client base continues to
expand.
I plan to be available to speak
with many of you in Orlando next month (Feb. 28 -
March 5) at PITTCON.
Please reach me at the office number (770 817-0123)
so that I may arrange a suitable time to discuss
your separation needs.
Mark Moskovitz, Ph D
January 1, 2010
2009 proved to be a banner year
for awareness regarding the hazards associated with
the production, usage and disposal of
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). While now banned
for decades, these useful synthetic compounds were
incorporated into much more than power transformers
– 30 years ago they found their way into building
materials, schools and were immersed without concern
of long term impact into our environment. Only now
do we comprehend the ubiquitous nature of these
compounds. Exciting data from Labrador and published
this month in the Toronto Globe and Mail point to an
environmental solution for destroying these toxic
agents. Meanwhile the utility of activated alumina
for rapid and complete PCB cleanup remains
unheralded.
DAI sponsors
pcbremoval.net,
a website where unbiased timely articles from the
lay and scientific press are presented regarding the
role of pcb compounds in our environment and
multiple clean up approaches which are being used
for their eradication. Throughout the year the
company will be sponsoring additional websites which
will address the role and impact of environmental
cleanup.
Affordable solutions are
available to make our world a cleaner place to live.
At Dynamic Adsorbents, 2010 will be a year where we
continue making advances in the use of alumina for
not just environmental cleanup applications, but
protecting citizens throughout the world from viral
and bacterial health hazards.
Dr. Gary Witman
December 27, 2009
As we get to the end of this
calendar year it is time for introspection. Did we
do well this year? Are we happy with our
performance? Have we helped to make the world a
better place?
Simple questions, but oh so
profound in their implications. It is our hope that
we have added to the education process by creating a
chapter on Flash Chromatography for Jack Kazes
masterpiece compilation “Encyclopedia of
Chromatography, 3rd Edition”. What a wonderful
addition of scholarship this work has become.
We continue to acquire patent
protection for intellectual property to develop
exciting new products that will keep us in the
forefront of cleaning our air, soil and water.
New websites initiated by the
company are exposing readers all over the world to
disruptive and exciting novel solutions for cleaning
up our environment. It is comforting to know that
our ideas are being disseminated globally.
We are placing a great deal of
emphasis on our means to manipulate activated
alumina in ways that have not been addressed before
and continue setting the standard regarding how
alumina is being used. By altering the structure,
the pore size and the particle size we are finding
solutions for superior drying agents, pollution
control systems, filtration systems, pesticide,
pyrogen and toxic waste cleanup, and novel solutions
for the nutraceutical and pharmaceutical industries.
We have accomplished much this
calendar year. And this is only the beginning. Happy
New Year to everyone.
Mark Moskovitz, PhD
December 18, 2009
The New York Times got it right
this week in their first page articles about the
quality of the water supply in the United States.
According to their latest article, "Only 91
contaminants are regulated by the Safe Drinking
Water Act, yet more than 60,000 chemicals are used
within the United States, according to Environmental
Protection Agency estimates. Government and
independent scientists have scrutinized thousands of
those chemicals in recent decades, and identified
hundreds associated with a risk of cancer and other
diseases at small concentrations in drinking water,
according to an analysis of government records by
The New York Times. But not one chemical has been
added to the list of those regulated by the Safe
Drinking Water Act
since 2000."
A healthy, safe environment is
not just about attempting to reduce carbon
dioxide emissions in order to cut global warming.
The growth in the population of the world is
unprecedented. By the end of this century nearly 9
billion humans will inhabit this planet, placing
strains on our environment which are currently
inconceivable. Just as in past centuries wars will
be fought over resource allocation, only this time
it will not be over minerals. It will be over land
and water. Sustainable resource utilization mandates
careful policy development and implementation.
We are doing our part at Dynamic
Adsorbents. We are the foremost company that has
developed and manufactured a series of specialty
activated aluminas that can remove many of the toxic
heavy metals that pollute our water supplies.
Recognizing water safety has not yet come to the
forefront as a public safety issue. But it will.
Contact your representatives.
Let them know that it is not just time to think
about C02 emissions and global warming. It is time
to restore our world to the beautiful place we were
given to live in when we came into this world and we
want it to be just as beautiful and safe for the
next generation.
Gary Witman, MD
December 15, 2009
How can an adsorbent company
such as DAI help our nation’s energy needs?
Day after day forward thinking
companies are contacting DAI to help provide
solutions to address our nations need for energy
independence. And the company can certainly help
them.
Here are just a few of the
exciting ways in which we can help our company
provide the means for energy dependency
-
remove the water and other
liquid solutions from hydrogen fuels which can
be used to power vehicles
-
stabilize the lithium used
in newer generation batteries which will power
the next generation of hybrid vehicles
-
remove the sulfur out of
unrefined and refined petroleum
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assure that the water
reaching municipal water supplies is clean and
pure after shale fractionation for gas
extraction
We committed to assuring that
the environment is clean for future generation by
providing simple and affordable solutions now.
You will be surprised at what
solutions the DAI technical staff may be able to
suggest by helping you with your environmental
cleanup needs, Further we are here to provide the
essential technical support to help you work through
to the achievement of a satisfactory solution.
Dr. Gary B. Witman
December 9, 2009
I hope you had the chance to see
the
recent article first released in the December
8th edition of the NY Times and then nationally
syndicated regarding "49 million in the US Exposed
to Dangerous Water." This provocative investigative
reporting found that more than 20% of the nation's
water treatment systems have violated key provisions
of the Safe Drinking Water Act over the
last 5 years, with water serving 49 million people
containing illegal concentrations of chemicals like
arsenic or radioactive substances like uranium.
At DAI, we feel that it is a
good time to remind people that our company was
formed and is in business to fight such important
environmental issues by providing the best,
cost-effective solutions to cleaning up our
environment and protecting against other public
health hazards. We do this through the unique and
creative use of carefully defined activated wide
pore alumina that is
targeted to specific cleanup and other applications.
The special amphoteric
properties of activated alumina provide an important
weapon in the fight for a cleaner, healthier
environment. Unlike other companies which sell this
adsorbent, for years DAI has played an instrumental
role in defining how alumina can be modified and
manipulated to enhanced its utility for separation
and environmental cleanup applications. Not only do
independent lab tests show DAI providing the highest
quality alumina in the industry, but we are the only
company manufacturing unique, specialized aluminas
targeted towards specific applications. In addition,
we are the only company capable of developing
customized alumina targeted to meet the specific
needs of your company.
In the case of purifying
drinking water, our new Dyna-AquaTM line of alumina
provides specialized aluminas targeted to the
removal of lead, radioactive waste including
uranium, copper, and fluoride from the water supply.
DAI currently manufactures more than 30 specialized
alumina products targeted to unique applications and
will continue developing defined high quality
products that best deal with environmental cleanup
needs.
Please read more about our
products and applications throughout our web site
(products,
applications or
FAQ), or call or email us
with any questions or to request any product or
other info.
As, always, thank you for your
consideration and we look forward to doing business
with you in building a cleaner, safer environment.
Your ideas and suggestions are greatly appreciated.
From all of us at DAI wishing
you the best in this festive Holiday season. And let
us hope that the political leaders of the world are
able to come to a consensus in Copenhagen this month
recognizing that we are the shepherds of this earth
and it is our job to keep our environment clean and
sustainable for future generations.
Read Article
Mark Moskovitz, PhD
November 10, 2009
Welcome to our newly designed website.
Dynamic Adsorbents is creating, manufacturing and
distributing products that are addressing many of
the most important issues facing our society in this
21st century. Clean air. Clean water. Cleanup of
toxic spillage including radioactive remnants left
behind since World War II. Isolation of natural
products for the production of pharmaceutical
compounds. Purification of drugs. Drying agents for
new biofuels such as bioethanol and biodiesel.
Stabilization of lithium to go into electric
vehicles. And protection against H1N1 and other
health threatening bacteria and viruses.
For the past two decades, our team has been on
the cutting edge of the use of alumina for
separation technology, pharmaceutical purification,
health protection and environmental cleanup. Not
only did we help set the standards for the use of
alumina, but we have developed the broadest range of
specialize and customized alumina based products to
meet the most pressing environmental and health
protection challenges faced by our country and the
rest of the world.
We are proud to be on the cutting edge of the new
“green” economy by developing products designed with
environmental impact. Every day we face new
challenges and our team is excited to continue
serving you with
the best of products and solutions
to make this a better world for us and our legacy.
We hope that you enjoy our catalog, our tidbits
and remember that we are always here to be of
service to you.
Mark Moskovitz, PhD
Gary Witman, MD
