Ann N. Martin
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 Experts studying the BSE epidemic surmised that up until the early 1980s the renderers in the United Kingdom used flammable solvents to dissolve fats and the solvents may have deactivated the agent that causes mad cow disease and scrapie. When the use of these solvents was discontinued this may have allowed the scrapie agent to remain viable. It was shortly after Tenderers stopped using these solvents that the first cases of BSE began to appear in cattle in the United Kingdom. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Petrochemicals and solvents. Many general hygiene products—such as skin cream, lotion, soap, shampoo, perfume, hair spray, and room deodorizers—contain petrochemicals. These compounds often have chemical structures similar to estrogen and therefore act like estrogen when introduced into the body. Industrial solvents are another source of xenoestrogens and are commonly found in cosmetics, fingernail polish, fingernail polish remover, glue, paint, varnish, cleaning products, carpet, fiberboard, and other processed woods.
Synthetic hormone replacement drugs and birth control pills. |
Ann N. Martin
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| In addition, the United States, like the United Kingdom, stopped using solvents as a regular part of the rendering process, which some scientists theorize could be related to the BSE outbreak in the United Kingdom. According to a report from the BSE Inquiry, "By 1970, most of the solvent extraction plants in the U.S. had blown up, burned down, or closed for safety."12
Basically, the United States was left wide open for a BSE outbreak. By 1985, renderers were still rendering sheep heads, solvents were no longer a part of U.S. rendering, and very few cattle were being tested for BSE. |
David Steinman
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 Instead, they said that the project was notable for being the first to establish a cause-and-effect relationship between solvents and brain damage in fetuses and that the results indicated an urgent need for further study.
"How can we, as one of the most advanced countries in the world, allow these [Esolvents] to enter households with small children, without the appropriate testing to see whether they're safe?" said Dr. Gideon Koren, a pediatrician at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and one of the coauthors.
Koren says young children are especially vulnerable. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 Subsequent pressings of the olive pulp and seeds use solvents and high heat, and the resulting oil is marketed as "pure" olive oil. However, this oil may contain traces of the solvents used in the pressing, and because it has been exposed to high temperatures, the oil may not be of the best flavor. In general, olive oil should not be heated to a high temperature, or its flavor will deteriorate.
The olives themselves are also edible. Raw, unripe olives are extremely bitter. They are often cured in lye, salt, or vinegar before being eaten. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 As far as the inkjet ink chemistry goes, I'm willing to take an educated guess that there are solvents in those inks and those solvents should not be touched in their liquid form because they will absorbed through the skin and are probably carcinogenic. But once they dry, they're fairly safe to handle.
Regardless of the inkjet ink chemicals, the net effect of digital photography is undoubtedly positive from an environmental standpoint. Of course, most consumers don't even think about this. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Avoid pesticides, chemicals, solvents, and heavy metals.
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Eat organic foods.
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Drink purified water.
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Maintain good digestion and regular bowel habits.
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Avoid alcohol. liver's ability to break down environmental and naturally occurring estrogen, is worthy of consideration.
Certain foods and supplements aid in enhancing the body's ability to mount a natural immune response. Optimal liver function involves enhancing the liver's ability to detoxify hormones, excess medicines, and toxins through two main phases, called phase I and phase II detoxification. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| As far as the inkjet ink chemistry goes, I'm willing to take an educated guess that there are solvents in those inks and those solvents should not be touched in their liquid form because they will absorbed through the skin and are probably carcinogenic. But once they dry, they're fairly safe to handle.
Regardless of the inkjet ink chemicals, the net effect of digital photography is undoubtedly positive from an environmental standpoint. Of course, most consumers don't even think about this. |
Erich Grotewold
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 The proper choice of solvent systems is necessary, often requiring the application of gradients of more polar (normal phases) or more hydrophobic solvents (reverse phases), together with the above-mentioned chromatographic supports in different chromatography systems. The sequence and kind of separation methods used depends on the composition of the sample and the experience of the researcher. However, minor flavonoid components are difficult to obtain as pure compounds. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's another reason to stop shopping at retailers that sell pesticides, toxic soaps, laundry products, solvents and cleaners. Get your food from a FOOD store, and make sure it's real food (not that processed garbage).
By the way, you can read the original NRDC press release at: http://www.nrdc.org/media/2007/070919. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 The Lipo (lipid, as in fat) portion adds dry-finish solvents, oils, vitamin-based antioxidants, and emollients to the mix, along with a lot of fragrance, making it the more interesting of the two, but still not enough to warrant the investment. Of course, they're dispensed as one and applied to skin, so you're getting a mix of beneficial, quesrionable, and very fragranr ingredients. How this is the answer to age control is anyone's guess, but it's an OK moisturizing serum for dry skin—just keep it away from the eye area due to the potent fragrance.
© $$$ Energizing Morning Cream ($56for 1. |
Erich Grotewold
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| Signals of solvents most frequently used in the reversed-phase chromatographic systems (CH3CN-D20 and CH3OD-D20) may be suppressed using the WET (water suppression-enhanced through ti effects) technique (Smallcombe et al, 1995).
The LC-NMR technique has been applied successfully in several laboratories for the studies of flavonoid compounds from different plant species (Wolfender et al, 1997; Hansen et al, 1999; Lommen et al, 2000; Vilegas et al, 2000; Andrade et al, 2002; Queiroz et al, 2002; Le Gall et al, 2003; de Rijke et al, 2004a; Waridel et al, 2004). |
Alex Steffen
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 There are now some green dry cleaners out there that use silicone-based solvents instead of the conventional kind; there are also wet cleaners that use water and detergent instead of solvents. These are good alternatives to traditional dry cleaners, but they are both more expensive than the standard. So just remember that hand washing often does the trick. |
Erich Grotewold
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| The major problems concerned a low sensitivity of NMR, the presence of protonated solvents used in the reversed phase HPLC covering some signals of protons of analytes, and the possibility of running only 'H-NMR experiments.
Most of these problems have been solved partially within the last decade. The low sensitivity of the NMR techniques has been addressed in several ways. Using high-field magnets (at least 500 and up to 750-900 MHz) in spectrometers connected to HPLC gives satisfactory results (Wolfender et al, 2001). |
| The isolation of target compounds from plant extracts with different solvents permitted one to distinguish two groups of compounds: oligomers of flavan-3-ols and a series of their 5-O-glucosylated derivatives. It was demonstrated that the fragmentation obtainable in ToF analyzers due to the postsource decay (PSD) technique permits the achievement of fragment-protonated molecules of flavan-3-ol trimers and tetramers together with sequence information (Behrens et al., 2003).
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Foods can be contaminated with pesticides, solvents, acrylamides, PFOA, perchlorate (rocket fuel) and other toxic chemicals without needing to list them at all. The best way to minimize your ingestion of toxic chemicals is to buy organic, or go with fresh, minimally-processed foods.
5. Look for words like "sprouted" or "raw" to indicate higher-quality natural foods. Sprouted grains and seeds are far healthier than non-sprouted. Raw ingredients are generally healthier than processed or cooked. Whole grains are healthier than "enriched" grains.
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Erich Grotewold
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| Asymmetric induction in epoxidation and Michael addition reactions of chalcone under phase transfer conditions using optically active solvents, Indian J Chem 26B: 1121-1123. Stafford, H. A., and Lester, H. H., 1982, Enzymic and nonenzymic reduction of (+)-dihydroquercetin to its 3,4,-diol, Plant Physiol 70: 695-698. Stafford, H. A., and Lester, H. H., 1984, Flavan-3-ol biosynthesis. The conversion of (+)dihydroquercetin and flavan-3,4-c«-diol (leucocyanidin) to (+)-catechin by reductases extracted from cell suspension cultures of Douglas fir, Plant Physiol 76: 184-186. Stafford, H. A. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Nail polish, for instance: pigments, solvents, dispersants, stabilizers, plasticizers and resins all present opportunities for reform. Could resin be made inherently sticky, thereby eliminating the need for plasticizers? Maybe we could check in with the peacocks; they've already figured out how to create brilliant colors by refracting light through a matrix of keratin, the same substance human fingernails are made of. "Why are we still talking about chemicals and paint? Why don't you just design thin layers that play with light?" asked Janine Benyus of the Biomimicry Guild. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 We have already seen that cocoa powder is manufactured by removing most of the cocoa butter by hydraulic presses, but this may also be done by solvents; the resulting cake is then pulverized, after which sugar is added through a cooking procedure. Alkalization can be applied to the cacao nibs, to the liquor, or to the cake. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 While we know from occupational studies that groups of people who are exposed to certain chemicals through their jobs, like those working with TCE-based solvents, have a much greater risk of developing autoimmune disease, we are still unable to see and document the cellular chain of events that causes that exposure to lead to disease. Nevertheless, the quest to make the invisible visible—and demonstrate, in lab animals, how exposure to a particular chemical causes autoimmunity—is the holy grail of autoimmune disease and immunotoxicology research. |
| The DEC had investigated the site in the mid 1980s and found the 6,250-square-foot locale to be heavily contaminated with de-greasing solvents such as trichloroethylene (TCE), vinyl chloride, and other particularly dangerous toxic agents commonly used in the manufacturing of metal items to clean off oils, greases, and other petroleum products, as well as a large number of other volatile organic compounds, known as VOCs. VOCs vaporize easily at room temperature and enter the surrounding atmosphere, where, studies show, vapors can linger as pollution for long periods of time. |
| In addition, ten ten-thousand-gallon tanks full of degreasing solvents as well as other chemicals—four below ground and six above—that had never been disposed of were leaching chemicals onto the site. PCB spills from transformers also soaked some areas. The local Scaja-quada Creek, which accepted the majority of stormwater overflow in this area of Buffalo, was located about eleven hundred feet south of the property. |
| At that time, only the four below-ground tanks of degreasing solvents, fuels, and unknown chemicals were emptied. Despite the fact that the soil and groundwater were contaminated at what were termed "high concentrations," the state classified the site as an inactive hazardous waste site—the area was not deemed as "presently constituting a significant threat to human health or the environment. |
| You can green your home as best you can, eat organic, avoid dry cleaning the clothes, throw out the solvents, and buy bedding sans flame retardants, but can you find that hallowed ground far from the chemical-driven American industrial machine? It is difficult to locate that halcyon land where toxic waste sites, nasty landfills, dry-cleaner TCE spills, and PCB-laced soil don't linger nearby—which is part of the reason why it is so hard to prove cause and effect between toxic waste and any disease cluster. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The food industry is entitled to use a large variety of solvents and chemicals to improve the taste, color, and texture of its products. Food producers have free reign over food production, and there is nobody out there that is going to make sure our children don't get fed with another sweet tasting poison.
But the common practice of producing food synthetically and making it "healthier" by adding synthetically derived vitamins and minerals is at the root of many health problems afflicting both children and adults in the developed world. |
Bill Sardi
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 One report reveals 450 ingredients added to tobacco as flavorings, solvents, preservatives and binders. [Food Chemistry Toxicology 42: S3-37, 2004] Tobacco companies have added levulinic acid to cigarettes to enhance the habit-forming effect of nicotine. Levulinic acid reduces the pH of tobacco smoke, making it easier for smokers to inhale cigarette smoke deeper into the lungs. [Nicotine Tobacco Research 7: 761-71, 2005] Cigarette manufacturers may even be able to skirt around laws that limit nicotine content by using nicotine analogs (nicotine-like molecules). |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 PETASITIDIS RHIZOMA
Mode of Administration: Extracts obtained with ethanol or lipophilic solvents and other galenic preparations for internal use.
Daily Dosage: Preparations equivalent to 4.5 to 7 gm drug may be used. The daily dosage must not exceed 1 mg of pyrrolizidine alkaloids with 1.2 unsaturated necine structure including their N-oxides. Infusions should be used.
LITERATURE
PETASITIDIS FOLIUM
Bicket D et al., Identification and characterization of inhibitors of peptide-leukotriene-synthesis from Petasites hybridus. In: PM 60(4):318. 1994.
Brune K, Analgetische Wirkung von Pestwurz. |
| Daily dosage: The average daily dose is 1 to 2 gm of the drug or 320 mg of lipophilic ingredients extracted with lipophile solvents (hexane or ethanol 90% v/v).
LITERATURE
Anonym, Welche Bedeutung haben pflanzliche Prostatamittel. In: DAZ 133(9):720. 1993.
Aso Y, Boccon-Gibob L, Brendler CB, et al., (1993) Clinical research criteria. In: Cockett AT, Aso Y, Chatelain C, Denis L, Griffith K, Murphy G (eds) Proceedings of the second international consultation on benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Paris, SCI S. 345-355. |
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