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01/26/2018 / By Isabelle Z.
Millions of documents about chemical toxicity have been compiled into database, ToxicDocs, now available online
There is no doubt that toxic products are everywhere you look these days. For every headline about a product recall, there are countless other items that are either ignored or given a free pass, slowly poisoning us and our planet. Public health historians David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz have been documenting the history of toxic […]
12/04/2016 / By JD Heyes
Asbestos continues its menacing attack on a global scale
Despite what is essentially a global ban on its use, along with a concerted effort to get rid of it, asbestos – once touted as a safe fire retardant – still plagues much of the world, and continues to cause cancer. As reported by Chemical and Engineering News, Serafina Salucci remembers growing up in suburban […]
11/30/2016 / By Daniel Barker
U.S. one of the few major industrialized nations that has not entirely banned asbestos
Despite the well-known health risks associated with asbestos exposure, the U.S. is one of very few industrialized nations that has not yet implemented a full ban on its use. Asbestos has been used for well over a century in the manufacture of hundreds of products, from building materials to brake shoes. Its fire-, chemical- and […]
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