Carcinogens

Safety Check: Hazard Communication Regulations
Pallet Enterprise
It can instead be conducted by categories of hazard (such as carcinogens, sensitizers or corrosive) that employees could encounter while working. Employers should keep records of the training that takes place and which employees received it. OSHA may ...

Mayfield Heights Man Outruns Cancer
Patch.com
But Shaughnessy quickly realized that cancer knows no demographics. While some behavior may put you at higher risk for contracting cancer, nothing -- not working out or abstaining from carcinogens -- can guarantee that you won't get it. The treatment ...

Gold Coast Bulletin News
Duo start electronic cigarettes business
Gold Coast Bulletin News
"It is an authentic tobacco alternative as they taste and feel just like the real thing but without the harmful carcinogens." He said it was rewarding to get feedback from people who had used Social-lites and it had helped them kick the habit. "One ...

Tulsa area firefighters will compete to see who can climb 50 flights of stairs ...
Tulsa World
"We are exposed to all kinds of carcinogens in today's house fires." New this year is the Firemen's Derby race. One or two volunteers from each department will be designated as derby runners. People can vote on who they think will win by making a donation.

Creative ideas run the course of science fair
Enterprise-Record
Shariann Howell, a student at Forest Ranch Charter School, looks over the information she compiled during research for her project "M&Ms Exposed," that found the yellow dyes 5 and 6 used to color the candy contains carcinogens. (Laurie Kavenaugh/Staff ...

Local Lawmaker Pushes for Fines Paid By Tonawanda Coke to Stay in Western ...
WKBW-TV
People like Donna Hennessy who has been living near the plant for the past 32 years and says she has has developed myelofibrosis because of the carcinogens from the plant. "The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was I went on the internet and it ...

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It's a gut reaction: how other people's bacteria can cure us – extract
The Guardian
Charred red meat has long been called a carcinogen, but in fact it is only the raw material for making carcinogens. Without the gut bacteria that break it down, the raw goods are harmless. (This applies to drugs too; the efficacy of a drug may vary ...

VIDEO: Activist advocates for zero-radiation, maximum protest
Wickedlocal halifax
It's a reactor of carcinogens, a reactor of death.” Caldicott wrote on a white board with colored markers to explain the types of radiation humans are exposed to, almost always unnecessarily, she said, and what the consequences of these exposures will be.

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Waterloo Record
Former Goodrich worker bravely helped others
Waterloo Record
“The work you did on Cam's story and the larger issue of rubber industry carcinogens was something that gave Cam real satisfaction and hope that others would be helped to have a better chance than he had had,” Marjorie wrote. “He shared the string of ...

China Daily
Dragon's brew is the drink for spring
China Daily
In tea jargon, this characteristic is "clean and fresh", a sensation that comes from the amino acid-infused tea leaves, natural elements that are good for body and skin. Green tea works to guard the body against carcinogens and the leaves contain ...

The Guardian
is technology killing us?
The Guardian
The World Health Organisation has classified electromagnetic fields of the kind used in mobile telephony as Group 2b carcinogens – that is, as possibly cancerous. The issue of electromagnetic sensitivity is immediately political. It places sufferers on ...

Editorial: E-cigarettes should not be stubbed out
The Independent
E-cigarettes seem the perfect solution: delivering nicotine addicts a craving-busting kick of vapour, while saving their lungs – and their surroundings – from the smoke, tar and carcinogens of tobacco. Unsurprisingly, many health campaigners smile on ...

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World Demand for Water Disinfection Products to Reach $7.7 Billion in 2016
Marketwire (press release)
There is continued concern about disinfection byproducts (DBPs), many of which are known or suspected carcinogens. Standards for water quality and wastewater treatment around the world are tightening -- including pressure to treat wastewater so that it ...

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Toledo Blade
Whirlpool facing $750M class action suit
Business First of Columbus (blog)
Though the children's families aren't involved, lawyers filed suit alleging high levels of carcinogens found in soil samples by the Environmental Protection Agency are the result of a former Whirlpool (NYSE:WHR) park in Clyde. The Benton Harbor, Mich ...
Class action suit says Whirlpool Corp. was negligent in handling toxinsFremont News Messenger
Cancer cluster lawsuit seeks $750MToledo Blade
Clyde Cancer Cluster families file suit against Whirlpoolnorthwestohio.com

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$20M settlement for St. Lawrence River pollution
Gloversville Leader-Herald
The settlement between Alcoa Inc., the St. Regis Mohawk tribe and state and federal officials involves discharges from two factories in Massena that released byproducts including potential carcinogens, damaging the environment and the downstream ...
Alcoa Inc., (NYSE:AA) and General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) to rehabilitate ...NIS
Alcoa, GM Settle New York Pollution Case With St. Regis MohawksBloomberg

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Dry cleaners site getting cleanup
Albany Times Union
An investigation of the site revealed that four carcinogens – tetrachloroethene (PCE), trichloroethene (TCE), dichloroethene (DCE) and vinyl chloride – contaminated soil samples and ground water at the Roxy site, as well as soil vapor and the indoor air.

Judge throws out most Coldwater Creek cancer claims
STLtoday.com
Scientists are almost always stumped by investigations into suspected cancer clusters because of the complexity of the disease and the difficulty in measuring exposures to carcinogens. Thousands of potential clusters are reported to health departments ...

Toledo Blade
Cancer cluster lawsuit seeks $750M
Toledo Blade
Last year, the U.S. EPA found elevated levels of PCBs, considered probable human carcinogens, at the park. Ohio Department of Health spokesman Tessie Pollock said there's been no cause or specific site linked to the cancer cases. Grist Mill Creek ...
Class action suit: Whirlpool negligent handling toxinsFremont News Messenger
Clyde Cancer Cluster families file suit against Whirlpoolnorthwestohio.com

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Report: More study needed on nuke-cancer link
Timesonline.com
“For example, there is background radiation that we are all exposed to. We don't always know what other carcinogens (a person) has been exposed to in that length of time,” Russ said. “And in the case of any particular type of cancer, it might be ...

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Incinerator not tiny, perfect
Toronto Star
Children's developing bodies cannot tolerate carcinogens like mercury, dioxins and particulate matter, even at low levels of exposure, especially when those exposures happen continuously from birth. Even if the company added scrubbers, this incinerator ...