Toxic Metal In Kids' Jewelry From China (Chinese Substitute Lead With More Toxic Cadmium)
Saturday 31st of July 2010 05:12:19 AM
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| AP IMPACT: Toxic metal in kids' jewelry from China By JUSTIN PRITCHARD, Associated Press Writer Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 11:22 a.m. LOS ANGELES — Barred from using lead in children's jewelry because of its toxicity, some Chinese manufacturers have been substituting the more dangerous heavy metal cadmium in sparkling charm bracelets and shiny pendants being sold throughout the United States, an Associated Press investigation shows. The most contaminated piece analyzed in lab testing performed for the AP contained a startling 91 percent cadmium by weight. The cadmium content of other contaminated trinkets, all purchased at national and regional chains... |
How safe are carbon nanotubes?
Saturday 31st of July 2010 05:12:19 AM
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| Carbon nanotubes are increasingly being used in everyday products such as sporting equipment, biomedical devices and aeroplanes. But questions remain as to how safe these nanotubes really are. A main factor in nanotube toxicity are the metal contaminants that remain from manufacture, which are typically one to ten per cent by weight, say Martin Pumera and Yuji Miyahara at the National Institute for Materials Science, Ibaraki, Japan. 'Carbon nanotubes are often viewed as homogenous materials, which is of course incorrect - they often contain impurities which are not even listed by the manufacturers,' says Pumera. The pair have used an electrochemical... |
Jumping Ship From the Rats
Saturday 31st of July 2010 05:12:19 AM
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| We won! That is, the forces of science-based public health policy seem to have won -- if not the war, at least a major battle. At long last, federal risk assessors and regulators have come around to the view that administering chemicals to rodents in super-high doses does not reliably predict human risk -- of cancer, or anything else -- and that a better method needs to be employed, if we are to avoid more unnecessary bans, anti-chemical media hysteria, and activist crusades. High dose animal tests on one rodent species don't reliably predict cancer risk in another rodent type,... |
Pollution, chemicals blamed for China's cancer rise
Saturday 31st of July 2010 05:12:19 AM
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| "The main reason behind the rising number of cancer cases is that pollution of the environment, water and air is getting worse by day," the paper quoted Chen Zhizhou, a cancer expert at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, as saying. |
Supreme Court Knows More about Medicine than Doctors!
Saturday 31st of July 2010 05:12:19 AM
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| Of course, the Supreme Court decision has very little to do with wether or not pot is dangerous or helpful as medicine. It basically comes down to the question: Can the federal government tell the states which chemicals they have to ban? And yes, we fought a Civil War so that the federal government could tell the states exactly what to do - regardless of logic or local democracy. So last week the Supreme Court upheld Washington DC's unquestioned authority to create intrusive and illogical laws that are based on prejudiced perceptions above scientific reality. I can't really find any... |
FDA Says It Was a Chromium Compound That Sickened Cattle in Washington State
Saturday 31st of July 2010 05:12:19 AM
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| SEATTLE (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration identified the substance that killed some dairy cows this month as a chromium compound, and a newspaper reported it contained chromium 6, the chemical investigated by activist Erin Brockovich. The FDA news release Wednesday did not say how the compound - a tacky, reddish-brown substance - might have gotten on the cattle. "It's not something we use in the dairy industry," said Jay Gordon, executive director for the state Dairy Federation. Ten cows became sick and three died after Enumclaw farmer John Koopman found the substance on them June 6. Their backs... |
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