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Muhammad Irfan: Unitec Data Analytics Lecturer on the research showing meth contamination increased by 50% since the rules were relaxed · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The group of researchers have found that meth contamination is
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  Speaker 1: going up and previously exposed properties. They say it all
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  Speaker 1: started back in twenty eighteen when the Gluckman Report, remember
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  Speaker 1: that increased the minimum acceptable level. The worry is that
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  Speaker 1: residents have been unnecessarily exposed to higher levels of myth
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  Speaker 1: because of the change. Doctor Muhammad Ifan is the data
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  Speaker 1: analytics at analytics lecturer at Unitech and joins me this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Muhammad, good to have you on the program.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much for having me.
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  Speaker 1: So what exactly is happening? The myth levels are going
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  Speaker 1: up in homes where they were previously exposed. How do
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  Speaker 1: we know that there's not more myth being done in
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  Speaker 1: the meantime?
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  Speaker 2: Although that's the basic thing to understand that if the
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  Speaker 2: contamination level is more, it means that the consumption is more. So.
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  Speaker 2: There is another institute that's called New Zealand Drug Foundation.
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  Speaker 2: It shows that from twenty twenty three to twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: the meth consumption only not contamination, the meth consumption has
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  Speaker 2: drastically increased, so which means that it's also contaminating the
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  Speaker 2: properties as well.
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  Speaker 1: Right, so people are doing meth in the properties. So
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  Speaker 1: the contamination levels going up correct, right, So what's new here?
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  Speaker 1: What is interesting about this because I mean that makes
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  Speaker 1: sense to me if people doing myth in a house
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  Speaker 1: then the level would go up.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. The interesting thing is over here is the other
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  Speaker 2: developed countries such as Australia, US UK, they have a
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  Speaker 2: met contamination tashure very very low than New Zealand. So
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  Speaker 2: they have a met contamination clash on from zero point
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  Speaker 2: five microgram but one hundred centimeter scare to one point
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  Speaker 2: five per microgram one hundred centimeters scare rather than New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand has fifteen microgram one hundred centimeter scare. The very
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  Speaker 2: is this much fashole, which is quite high, can drastically
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  Speaker 2: impact the children's health as well, right, And that is
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  Speaker 2: that might be pushing the healthcare costs up and making
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  Speaker 2: parents a lots of parents too much worry about it.
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  Speaker 1: What is the level? Do we know? What is the
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  Speaker 1: level that the health people say is okay?
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  Speaker 2: There was an institute that was called the Environmental and
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  Speaker 2: Science Institute and now I think they have changed their
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  Speaker 2: name to New Zealand for Public Health and Forensic Science Institute.
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  Speaker 2: That's a Crown Research Institute. They mentioned in twenty nineteen
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  Speaker 2: that it should be one point five microgram one hundred
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  Speaker 2: centimeter scare for a general high use area, while it
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  Speaker 2: could be three point eight microgram one hundred centimeter scare
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  Speaker 2: for limited use area. So these were the two numbers.
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  Speaker 2: They did a quite intensive research and they recommended these two.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, interesting stuff. Doctor Muhammad is found with US data
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  Speaker 1: analystics Electra at Unitech. For more from Early Edition with
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