Carcinogens

Grilling Meat, Avoiding Cancer: 5 Important Tips
AARP News (blog)
240-hamburger-grill-avoid-cancer-grilling-meat Warm weather, Memorial Day, July 4th — it's time to dust off the grill and enjoy some outdoor barbecuing. Just be sure you choose the healthiest ways to cook those steaks, burgers and chicken, so you don ...

Styrene Carcinogen Listing Survives Challenge
Courthouse News Service
WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. government can classify styrene as a carcinogen, a federal judge ruled, rejected a challenge from the products friends in the industry. In a sometimes withering opinion, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton concluded plaintiffs ...
Court Rules Against Industry Efforts to Hide Health Effects of StyreneeNews Park Forest

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Find Out How To Cut Carcinogens Out Of Your Grilling
CBS Local
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — It's the familiar sizzle that comes with warming weather. The sun is out, barbecues are in full swing. But it's what's hiding inside that meat you've cooked that can hurt your health in the long run. Dr. Jim Felton has spent years ...

Dr. Jouraeva Speaks May 15 on Trees and Carcinogens
Oswego Daily News
OSWEGO, NY – Chemistry professor Dr. Venera Jouraeva will talk about her research on trees and their effect on air quality and reduction of carcinogens in the environment at a meeting of Oswego Tree Stewards on May 15 at 7 p.m. at Oswego City Hall ...

Bangkok Post
Exhausting all risk
Bangkok Post
The team at Nida DPM conducted four years of research in a project to analyse the carcinogenic PAHs in Bangkok. To investigate the prevalence of the particulate matter, which measures 10 microns and are weighed in trillionths of a gramme, they used a ...

8% of UK cancer deaths caused by workplace carcinogens
Fair Investment Company
Recent research into occupational cancer, conducted for the Health and Safety Executive by Imperial College London, estimates that there were 13,500 new cases of work-related cancer each year, leading to over 8,000 deaths. Men showed a higher rate of ...

Toxins, Carcinogens Found In More Than 5000 Children's Products
Personal Liberty Digest
Toxic metals like cadmium, mercury and antimony and organic compounds like phthalates are among more than 41 chemicals identified as harmful to children that are found in more than 5,000 children's products, according to reports filed with the ...

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EarthTalk: Steps to avoiding exposure to carcinogens in environment
Bellingham Herald
Some of us are genetically predisposed toward certain types of cancers, but there is much we can do to avoid exposure to carcinogens in our environment. According to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a non-profit working to protect public health ...

No More Tears: Johnson & Johnson Cleans Up Its Act and Removes Carcinogens
Living Green Magazine
Prompted by growing concerns raised by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, Johnson & Johnson makers of Aveeno, Neutrogena, and Johnson's Baby Shampoo, announced today that it will be removing carcinogens and other toxic chemicals from its baby ...

Study Finds Carcinogens in Lipstick
Newser
The UC Berkeley study found that, in particular, average lipstick users (who apply lipstick an average of 2.3 times a day and are estimated to ingest 24 milligrams of lipstick per day) could be in danger of overexposure to chromium, a carcinogen that ...

Science World Report
Heavy Metal Mouths?: Study Finds Carcinogens In 32 Commonly Sold Lipsticks
The Consumerist
Before you pucker up and slather on your favorite lip lacquer, consider the carcinogens: A new study tested 32 lipsticks and lip glosses and found they contain things like lead, cadmium, chromium, aluminum and five other metals. Some of those were ...
Follow-up lipstick study finds concerns about carcinogensAlexandria Town Talk
Is Your Lipstick Dangerous? Carcinogens Found in CosmeticsScience World Report
Toxic Metals Found In LipstickDiscovery News
Popular Science
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Science World Report
Follow-up lipstick study finds concerns about carcinogens
Alexandria Town Talk
Testing of 32 commonly sold lipsticks and lip glosses found they contain lead, cadmium, chromium, aluminum and five other metals — some at potentially toxic levels, according to researchers at the University of California-Berkeley's School of Public ...
May 02 , 2013 10 : 48 AM EDT Is Your Lipstick Dangerous ? Carcinogens Found ...Science World Report
Toxic Metals Found In LipstickDiscovery News
Ladies, Are You Smearing Toxic Metals On Your Lips Every Day?Popular Science
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Study: 30 Toxic Chemicals, Some Carcinogens, at High Levels at Exxon ...
Huffington Post
Roughly four weeks after the spill took place, many basic details are still unknown to the public, according to recent reporting by InsideClimate News. Questions include what exactly caused the spill, how big was the spill exactly, and how long did it ...

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Workplace carcinogens cause one in ten of all cancer deaths
Workplace Savings & Benefits
Mesothelioma - which is most often caused from exposure to asbestos - was the most common occupational cancer identified and was estimated that almost all mesothelioma cancers were a result of workplace carcinogens. Following these were sinonasal ...

Contamination Cancer Cases: Do Right by Marines
The Ledger
The last denial came in March, after a federal study in January confirmed that the water at Camp Lejeune — water that Marines and their families drank, cooked with and bathed in — was laced with carcinogens when Gervasi was stationed there in 1956.

The Mercury
Cancer compo boost for firies
The Mercury
"They head into danger as others flee -- but the effect of prolonged exposure to carcinogens, toxins and other chemicals can cost their health," Mr Marshall said. Launceston firefighter Daniel Redpath, who was diagnosed with prostrate cancer two years ...
First cancer compo deal for firefightersYahoo!7 News
Lawmakers Fight for FirefightersWSYM-TV

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Augusta Free Press
Dinner Diva: Healthy grilling tips
Augusta Free Press
And while we all love the thrill of the grill, it's a known fact that cooking meat over charcoal can be harmful for our health because of the carcinogens that come from cooking over chemically charged lava rocks and from eating charred meat. Rather ...

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DEAR ABBY: E-cigarettes harm the smoker, but not the secondhand breather
The Mercury
In 2009, the FDA announced the findings from a laboratory analysis that indicated that electronic cigarettes expose users to harmful chemical ingredients, including carcinogens. However, those elements were NOT detected in exhaled vapor. DEAR ABBY: ...

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E-cigarettes contain carcinogens
Albany Times Union
DEAR ABBY: I work in a small office with two former heavy smokers who have now transitioned to vapor/e-cigarettes. My concern is that they "smoke" their e-cigarettes in the office constantly, and I don't know what chemicals I am now breathing secondhand.
E-Cigarettes Harm The Smoker, But Not Secondhand BreatherYahoo! News

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Supporters of the anti-fracking charter amendment say it protects people
Youngstown Vindicator
For example, opponents say it could prohibit people from driving a car because one provision calls for the “right to breathe air untainted by toxins, carcinogens, particulates and other substances known to cause harm to health.” “That's just false ...

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