David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts |  Soil samples indicated the presence of pesticides, benzene, toluene, xylene, chlordane, naphthalene, and metals. Groundwater samples contained metals, benzene, toluene, xylene, pesticides, trichlorethylene, and chlorobenzene.36
I have no interest in being a Chevron booster, either, and, more recendy, they were experiencing serious criticisms from a region in Ecuador where they have oil fields they inherited from their merger with Texaco. But, as I learned with Cargill, I think you have to look at not only a company's history but also where it is headed. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
See book keywords and concepts |  For example, the solvent benzene, which increases the risk of leukemia even at small amounts of exposure, is part of our everyday lives. We are regularly exposed to benzene while breathing tobacco smoke, even secondhand smoke, pumping gasoline, while driving in high-traffic areas, and from industrial air pollution. Higher levels are released from the vapors of benzene-containing products such as glues, paints, furniture wax, and detergents. An estimated 44,240 new cases of leukemia will be diagnosed in the United States in 2007. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts | | Groundwater samples contained metals, benzene, toluene, xylene, pesticides, trichlorethylene, and chlorobenzene.36
I have no interest in being a Chevron booster, either, and, more recendy, they were experiencing serious criticisms from a region in Ecuador where they have oil fields they inherited from their merger with Texaco. But, as I learned with Cargill, I think you have to look at not only a company's history but also where it is headed. In that sense, Chevron was remarkable, and one of the good guys, even if they were an oil company. I liked them. | | Examples of VOCs are phthalates, butyl cellosolve (found in Windex), formaldehyde, benzene and toluene, dichlorobenzene, acetone, xylene, vinyl chloride, naphthalene, methylene chloride, and perchloroeth-ylene. These are all petrochemicals whose production contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and which often are used in products where petrochemicals could be replaced by environmentally safer and less cosdy chemicals. Thousands of VOCs are known to be capable of causing all kinds of illnesses and ailments, including neurological and organ damage, cancer, and multiple chemical sensitivities. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
See book keywords and concepts | | We are regularly exposed to benzene while breathing tobacco smoke, even secondhand smoke, pumping gasoline, while driving in high-traffic areas, and from industrial air pollution. Higher levels are released from the vapors of benzene-containing products such as glues, paints, furniture wax, and detergents. An estimated 44,240 new cases of leukemia will be diagnosed in the United States in 2007. Sometimes chronic low doses can be even more toxic than acute high doses. This looks to be especially true when it comes to the toxins that affect your hormonal, or endocrine, system. |
Stacy Malkan
See book keywords and concepts |  The FDA has known since 1988 about the dangers of hydroquinone (the ingredient in skin lightening creams), that it absorbs into the skin and is a precursor to benzene, but is just now getting around to doing anything about it.
Zeliger recommended that the industry "present the FDA with a new set of tough standards for testing and labeling." A benefit of this can be seen in the pesticides law. "Once they get sign-off by EPA, it's a free ticket out of any litigation." It's basically a "government stamp of approval." You could do the same thing with cosmetics — get the FDA to sign off on labels. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  This scientist might have done well to pay more heed to the key earlier observation made in the firsr American report of aplastic anemia in Baltimore, wherein the author pointed out that X-ray radiation and benzene shared a predilection for acting on blood cells in a similar way. It was known by this time that radiation could have a twofold effect: an initial suppression of bone marrow's capacity to form blood cells, followed only later by a loss of normal controls over cell production. Leukemia is the end-stage, cancerous manifestation of cell proliferation caused by radiation exposure. | | He died in 1883 at ninety-two years of age, just as benzene was about to make rubber cement a possibility.73 Perhaps he was blessed in not living to see the advances that glue making underwent after his death. The survival of his ethos would be a good thing, however. It dictated that corporations should independently take responsibility for product modifications, thus reducing hazards at their source.
For one example of a basic chemical engineering solution that would fit this practice, we can take a lesson from the rubber tree's natural product and its manufactured facsimiles. | | Not surprisingly, in developing economies benzene is often minimally regulated, if at all. Hexane use is even more widespread worldwide as a glue solvent, and outbreaks of shoemaker's polyneuropathy continue to occur.68 Hexane has even gained new popularity as a solvent for general uses, as documented by a report of progressive neuropathy affecring a California man who had repaired cars for twenty-four years.69 He used up to nine spray cans a day of an aerosol brake cleaner that turned out to be more than 50 percent hexane. | | One industry in which DMF has been a particular problem has been the application of polymer coatings in the manufacture of artificial leather, the same process in which benzene made an early name for itself as a cause of leukemia.
Nitromethane, a chemical closely related to nitroethane, has also been introduced as a solvent for acrylates. For the nail sculptor, this use may involve the product D-Zolve Tip Blender. "One drop on the line of demarcation cuts filing time to a minimum with no hard, heat producing file strokes. | | A drawing of her appears on the back cover with the message
"A little care will keep benzol in its place—and you on the job," and a final paragraph emphasizes that benzene is good for business. "Clara is one of about 30,000 American workers whose jobs call for the use of benzol in some form. Thousands more are employed to manufacture this valuable solvent. A lot of people would be out of work if there were no benzol."
Natural rubber stockpiles were being exploited strategically. Butadiene polymers and neoprene were useful and important supplements. |
Devra Davis
See book keywords and concepts |  Based on this work, the safety council decided that benzene was a highly problematic material in the industrial workforce: "We are forced to conclude that the control of the benzol hazard (except where the substance is used in completely closed systems) is exceedingly difficult; that in practice, systems of exhaust ventilation capable of keeping the concentration of benzol in the atmosphere below 100 parts per million are extremely rare; and that, even when this is accomplished, there remains a decreased, but substantial hazard of benzol poisoning. |
Dr. John Yiamouyiannis
See book keywords and concepts |  IARC and NCI: Their Involvement in the benzene Cover-Up
The August 8, 1982 issue of the Houston Post reports that IARC purposely deleted a crucial sentence in its report on benzene. According to the Post:
"The sentence, of concern to 500,000 U.S. workers exposed to benzene, had stated that lifetime benzene workers, under currently permitted conditions, might suffer triple the normal rate of leukemia.
"The killer of the sentence, Dr. Lorenzo Tomatis of the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, has confessed. |
Michael Friedman, ND
See book keywords and concepts |  This stepwise removal of iodine from the benzene ring of the inner tyrosyl and outer phenolic benzene ring is currently thought to be the major route of peripheral thyroid hormone metabolism.
Currently, three deiodinase families are recognized and are termed isoforms type I, II, and III (Table 2). These three families differ in terms of their tissue distribution, reaction kinetics, efficiency of substrate utilization, and sensitivity to inhibitors. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |  The sludge is then bleached with benzene and treated with other chemical solvents. When you burn paraffin candles, they put out soot and smoke, along with toxins and carcinogens, including very harmful chemicals dispersed by the commonly used lead-core wicks (as studied & reported by the University of Michigan). You would probably never burn paraffin candles unless the bad smell they produce (comparable to diesel fumes) were not covered up by synthetic fragrances, many of which are irritants or toxins themselves. |
Mark Schapiro
See book keywords and concepts |  Is it the benzene or the PCBs or any number of other carcinogens that contribute to cancer clusters? Or is it, as industry argues, a genetic predisposition or lifestyle factors such as drug or alcohol consumption that are the most significant contributing factors? Given the multiplicity of potential exposure sources and the elongated time frames in which they happen —over months, years, or decades —settling such question with finality will always be elusive. While U.S. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts |  One example of this comes from a 2003 study in which blood and urine samples from Americans were tested for 210 substances, including industrial compounds, pollutants, PCBs, insecticides, dioxins, mercury, cadmium, and benzene. The volunteers, none of whom had any occupational or residential risks for such exposure, had detectable levels of 91 of these. In other words, these are ordinary people with ordinary lives who have numerous toxins in their body from ordinary exposure. |
Mark Schapiro
See book keywords and concepts | | These included thousands of potentially highly toxic substances, including the likes of ethyl benzene, a widely used industrial solvent suspected of being a potent neurotoxin; whole families of synthetic plastics that are potential carcinogens and endocrine disrupters; and thousands of other substances for which there was little or no information.
Twenty-eight years later, according to the EPA itself, 95 percent of all chemicals have never undergone even minimal testing for their toxicity or environmental impact. |
Devra Davis
See book keywords and concepts | | The American Petroleum Institute today (as we will see in Chapter 12) takes a radically different position on benzene, actively working to fund research that it expects will overturn national standards in many countries.
In 1949 a report in Scientific American by Groff Conklin featured a graphic display of "carcinogens known to be present in human environment."27 Asbestos was described, along with solar and ionizing radiation, chromates, tar, synthetic dyes and arsenic, as causing cancer by physically damaging the body or chemically inducing malignant growth. |
Mark Schapiro
See book keywords and concepts | | Gislev arrived in China, he told me in a telephone interview from the EU's mission in Beijing, shortly after a disastrous chemical explosion that released highly toxic benzene into the Songhua River and poisoned the water supply for some 4 million inhabitants in the northern city of Harbin. He has a mandate similar to that of Donkers' in the United States —though of course with a far more daunting set of environmental challenges—including air and water pollution, energy efficiency, and protection from hazardous chemicals. About REACH, Gislev commented, "We are looking down the supply chain. |
Dr. John Yiamouyiannis
See book keywords and concepts | | IARC and NCI: Their Involvement in the benzene Cover-Up
The August 8, 1982 issue of the Houston Post reports that IARC purposely deleted a crucial sentence in its report on benzene. According to the Post:
"The sentence, of concern to 500,000 U.S. workers exposed to benzene, had stated that lifetime benzene workers, under currently permitted conditions, might suffer triple the normal rate of leukemia.
"The killer of the sentence, Dr. Lorenzo Tomatis of the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, has confessed. |
Devra Davis
See book keywords and concepts | | Since 1928, scientists have understood that benzene can cause AML in those who work with it regularly. Why doctors should be among them may not be that difficult to understand. People like Ruth Spector, who are middle-age physicians today, learned to make chemicals the old-fashioned way, just as Li Dou and Yiping Hu did in China—they built them. In addition, physicians work with compounds like alcohols, anesthetics and chemotherapeutic drugs that are also recognized to cause cancer.
Ron Herberman is hardly your typical physician. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
See book keywords and concepts | | Toxins from Air: 200,000
Fossil fuels, benzene, smoke, chemtrail residue, paint fumes, carpet out-gassing, pet dander, mold and mildew, dust mites, air fresheners, cleaning supplies, etc. |
Devra Davis
See book keywords and concepts | | Ten years earlier, the American National Safety Council issued a final report on the hazards of benzol, the German term used to describe benzene. Their document noted the doses at which it induced narcosis and severe weight loss in animals, and included 125 different references. Highly exposed workers became anemic and sometimes died when overcome by fumes they encountered cleaning out deep tanks. Those without lethal exposures had a range of blood problems that were well studied. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
See book keywords and concepts |  It is just one of more than 4,000 chemicals in tobacco including formaldehyde, cyanide, arsenic, carbon monoxide, methane, asbestos, ammonia and benzene.9 If you ever made the mistake of smoking, think back to the very first time you inhaled. For many, it was a horrible experience that led to a major coughing fit. Your body is not stupid. It knows when something is wrong. It was rejecting the poison of the cigarette. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts | | After testing the blood and urine of nine representative Americans from around the country for 210 substances (sample groups are small as these tests are prohibitively expensive), these scientists discovered that each volunteer carried an average of 91 industrial compounds, pollutants, and other chemicals—including PCBs, commonly used insecticides, dioxin, mercury, cadmium, and benzene, to name just a few. This plethora of chemicals had accumulated in these individuals through the common and minute exposures that we all experience in our daily lives. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts | | When mixed with the additive vitamin C in soft drinks, it produces benzene, a carcinogenic substance. Now, Dr. Peter Piper, professor of molecular biology and biotechnology at Sheffield University, England, has released the results of his research on the impact of sodium benzoate on living yeast cells in his laboratory. Professor Piper discovered that benzoate damaged an important area of DNA in the "power station" of cells known as the mitochondria. |
Paula Begoun
See book keywords and concepts |  Because sodium lauryl sulfate, TEA-lauryl sulfate, sodium CI4-16 olefin sulfonate (and the lesser used sodium dodecyl sulfonate and alkyl benzene sulfonate) are very strong, drying, and irritating detergent cleansing agents, I warn against using a product that contains these ingredients when they are listed in the first part of the ingredient list. For those who dye their hair, using a product with sodium CI4-16 olefin sulfonate, sodium dodecyl sulfonate, or alkyl benzene sulfonate can potentially strip hair color. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Some of these include formaldehyde, benzene, formic acid, and quinones, which are known to be harmful to human health. In one experiment, for example, levels of benzene, a known carcinogen, were seven times higher in irradiated beef than in non-irradiated beef. Some of these radiolytic products are unique to the irradiation process and have not been adequately identified or tested for toxicity.
Irradiating food destroys somewhere between 20 and 80 percent of the vitamins, including A, B2, B3, B6, B12, folic acid, C, E, and K. Amino acids and essential fatty acids are also destroyed. |
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