Dangers to the Environment
Making Nanotubes Without Harming the Environment
They are 10,000 times thinner than a strand of human hair, yet stronger than steel, more durable than diamonds, and able to conduct heat and electricity with efficiency that rivals copper wires and silicon chips.
Ever since their discovery in the early 1990s, carbon nanotubes have been hailed as a new “wonder material.” They are tiny [...]
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Lautenberg, Boxer Announce Hearing To Investigate Traces of Pharmaceutical Drugs Found In Drinking Water
Today, Sen. Frank R, Lautenberg (D-NJ), Chairman of the Transportation Safety, Infrastructure Security and Water Quality Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, announced that they planned to hold a hearing into the discovery of traces of pharmaceutical [...]
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Pharmaceuticals found in Drinking Water
A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the [...]
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Nanotech - a possible danger to the public’s health?
The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) has released a first-time legal analysis that finds a key federal toxics reporting statute could be applied to production and commercialization of nanotechnology, providing the public with more information about these revolutionary – yet still potentially risky – technologies.But before the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) authorities can be applied [...]
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CDC Confirms Dangerous Levels of Formaldehyde in a Third of FEMA Trailers
The CDC said about a third of the FEMA trailers it tested have dangerously high levels of formaldehyde — so high that it said they should be vacated as soon as possible. The CDC tested a random sample of 519 trailers and the results provided a fairly accurate snapshot of the living conditions faced by [...]
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15Feb2008 | PharmaWatchDog | 0 comments | Continued
FEMA’s Formaldehyde Containing Trailers
After downplaying the risks for months, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday it will rush to move Gulf Coast hurricane victims out of roughly 35,000 government-issued trailers because tests found dangerous levels of formaldehyde fumes.
FEMA Administrator R. David Paulison said the agency hopes to get everyone out and into hotels, motels, apartments and other [...]
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Mystery Disease in Minnesota
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If you have to come down with a strange disease, this town of 23,000 on the wide-open prairie in southeastern Minnesota is a pretty good place to be. The Mayo Clinic, famous for diagnosing exotic ailments, owns the local medical [...]
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China Pesticide-Tainted Dumplings Poison 175 Japanese
Chinese-made dumplings containing pesticides sickened 175 Japanese in a scandal the government says may damage relations with its neighbor, which exported $56.7 billion of food to Japan last year.
Learn More: Bloomberg.com
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Trichloroethylene is a probable risk factor for Parkinson’s disease and parkinsonism
Trichloroethylene is a probable risk factor for Parkinson’s disease and parkinsonism, a study here found. The finding came from a study of 31 workers at an industrial plant, including three workers with Parkinson’s disease exposed to high levels of trichloroethylene, and from animal experiments, Don M. Gash, Ph.D., of the University of Kentucky, and [...]
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