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Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 7:57:43 AM
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Table of Contents (9 articles)
EST RESEARCH ARTICLE: CONSUMER PRODUCT CHEMICALS IN INDOOR DUST: A QUANTITATIVE META-ANALYSIS OF U.S. STUDIES
Tags: public, discovery, environmental, dust
HAZMAT INVESTIGATES POSSIBLE CHLORINE LEAK IN NT
Tags: us_NY, industrial, release, response, chlorine, water_treatment
SOUTHINGTON SEEKS REIMBURSEMENT FOR RESPONSE TO CHEMICAL LEAK
Tags: us_CT, industrial, follow-up, environmental, metals, waste
TEAR GAS CANISTERS SEND 6 WASTE MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES TO HOSPITAL
Tags: us_CA, public, release, injury, tear_gas, waste
MAN INJURED AFTER FREON LEAK IN SHAW APARTMENT BUILDING
Tags: us_DC, public, release, injury, freon
HERE'S WHY THOSE SAMSUNG PHONE BATTERIES EXPLODED
Tags: us_IL, transportation, discovery, environmental, batteries
FIRE CREWS CALLED OUT TO CHEMICAL LEAK AT AYRSHIRE SCHOOL
Tags: United_Kingdom, education, release, response, other_chemical
YOUNGSTOWN NEWS, RUTGERS AGREES TO CLEAN PROBABLE CARCINOGENS FROM NEASE CHEMICAL SITE NEAR SALEM
Tags: us_PA, industrial, release, environmental, ag_chems, pesticides
TODDLERS ARE AT HIGHEST RISK FOR CHEMICAL BURNS TO THE EYES
Tags: public, discovery, environmental, cleaners
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EST RESEARCH ARTICLE: CONSUMER PRODUCT CHEMICALS IN INDOOR DUST: A QUANTITATIVE META-ANALYSIS OF U.S. STUDIES
Tags: public, discovery, environmental, dust
Indoor dust is a reservoir for commercial consumer product chemicals, including many compounds with known or suspected health effects. However, most dust exposure studies measure few chemicals in small samples. We systematically searched the U.S. indoor dust literature on phthalates, replacement flame retardants (RFRs), perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), synthetic fragrances, and environmental phenols and estimated pooled geometric means (GMs) and 95% confidence intervals for 45 chemicals measured in ‰?´3 data sets. In order to rank and contextualize these results, we used the pooled GMs to calculate residential intake from dust ingestion, inhalation, and dermal uptake from air, and then identified hazard traits from the Safer Consumer Products Candidate Chemical List. Our results indicate that U.S. indoor dust consistently contains chemicals from multiple classes. Phthalates occurred in the highest concentrations, followed by phenols, RFRs, fragrance, and PFASs. Several pht!
halates and RFRs had the highest residential intakes. We also found that many chemicals in dust share hazard traits such as reproductive and endocrine toxicity. We offer recommendations to maximize comparability of studies and advance indoor exposure science. This information is critical in shaping future exposure and health studies, especially related to cumulative exposures, and in providing evidence for intervention development and public policy.
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HAZMAT INVESTIGATES POSSIBLE CHLORINE LEAK IN NT
Tags: us_NY, industrial, release, response, chlorine, water_treatment
NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WKBW) - Hazmat teams were called to a waste water treatment facility in North Tonawanda Tuesday night to investigate a possible chlorine leak.
North Tonwanda Police said officials from the water treatment plant on River Road called in the possible leak around 10 p.m. Tuesday night.
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SOUTHINGTON SEEKS REIMBURSEMENT FOR RESPONSE TO CHEMICAL LEAK
Tags: us_CT, industrial, follow-up, environmental, metals, waste
Now that the chemical cleanup at a Spring Street factory is done, the town is seeking compensation for its work at the site.
"I'm confident we will be fully reimbursed," Town Manager Garry Brumback said Tuesday.
Town fire, police and public works personnel were among those who responded to the Aug. 24 plumbing leak of 300 gallons of water tainted with hexavalent chromium at the Light Metals Coloring factory.
The first reimbursement check ‰?? $29,000 to the fire department ‰?? has been received, fire Chief Harold Clark told the town council on Monday. It's not clear how much compensation other town agencies will seek from Light Metals.
Brumback said the company is self-insured and has been cooperative and helpful with town and other officials since the leak. The chemical was forced up onto the factory roof by a plumbing malfunction. It spilled off the roof on the grounds and flowed onto Graham Place and into a catch basin.
Town, state and federal agencies were at the scene for several days. Workers took soil and water samples as others replaced the company roof, cleaned pipes and gutters, removed topsoil and pavement, and checked drains that empty into the Quinnipiac River for traces of the carcinogenic industrial chemical. All materials removed from the site were sealed securely for shipping for safe disposal.
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TEAR GAS CANISTERS SEND 6 WASTE MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES TO HOSPITAL
Tags: us_CA, public, release, injury, tear_gas, waste
Dive Brief:
Leaking tear gas canisters at Waste Management‰??s Sunset Environmental Transfer Station in Irvine, CA caused six employees to be hospitalized on Friday, as reported by Lake Forest Patch.
Seven workers reported symptoms of coughing, sneezing, runny noses and watery eyes. One did not require transport to a hospital. In total, 20 employees were evacuated from the facility.
Firefighters and a hazmat team from Orange County arrived with specialized equipment to check for hazardous chemicals and eventually cleared the facility for work to resume.
Dive Insight:
By the time hazmat technicians entered the facility, about an hour after the incident, the gas had dissipated and they couldn't locate the containers. The Orange County Health Department discovered the seven offending canisters later in the day.
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MAN INJURED AFTER FREON LEAK IN SHAW APARTMENT BUILDING
Tags: us_DC, public, release, injury, freon
A man was injured after a cooling unit leaked Freon inside of an apartment building in Shaw earlier this morning.
D.C. Fire and EMS Hazmat crews rushed to the scene of a Freon leak inside of a six-story apartment complex on the 500 block of N St. NW around 8 a.m., according to spokesman Doug Buchanan. When personnel arrived, they found that a ‰??refrigeration or air conditioning unit‰?? in a utility closet area was leaking the refrigerant.
A worker with the apartment building was taken to the hospital with potentially serious respiratory injuries, Buchanan said.
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HERE'S WHY THOSE SAMSUNG PHONE BATTERIES EXPLODED
Tags: us_IL, transportation, discovery, environmental, batteries
Lithium ion batteries show up in all sort of tech these days, from your phone and laptop to airplanes and electric vehicles. But a voluntary recall of some 2.5 million Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones after reports of battery explosions is raising new concerns about their safety.
Last week the Federal Aviation Authority warned passengers not to turn on or charge the devices during flights ‰?? or even put them in checked baggage. Some international airlines have placed similar restrictions on traveling with the smartphone. And the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission advised consumers "to stop charging or using the device."
Here's what you need to know about the lithium batteries that probably power a lot of your tech ‰?? and why they sometimes catch fire.
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FIRE CREWS CALLED OUT TO CHEMICAL LEAK AT AYRSHIRE SCHOOL
Tags: United_Kingdom, education, release, response, other_chemical
Emergency services have been called out to an East Ayrshire school after a chemical leak was discovered.
Two fire crews were sent to Loudoun Academy, Galston, at around 5.45pm on Monday after the automatic fire alarm sounded.
Once inside the school, firefighters found a quantity of aluminium chloride which had leaked from a container and called in a special environmental protection team and a scientific adviser.
The aluminium chloride, a neurotoxin which can cause irritation to the eyes, skin and respiratory system, was safely contained and put back into storage.
No pupils were in the school at the time.
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YOUNGSTOWN NEWS, RUTGERS AGREES TO CLEAN PROBABLE CARCINOGENS FROM NEASE CHEMICAL SITE NEAR SALEM
Tags: us_PA, industrial, release, environmental, ag_chems, pesticides
Rutgers Organics Corp. has agreed to complete the cleanup of the Nease Chemical Superfund site near Salem, estimated to cost $18.75 million, federal officials announced.
The agreement is in a consent decree filed Friday in federal court in Youngstown.
Under the consent decree, Rutgers, based in State College, Pa., also agrees to restore injured natural resources at the site and nearby areas at a cost of about $500,000.
Further, Rutgers will reimburse federal and state agencies for their past response and assessment costs of about $1 million.
‰??This agreement will undo the damage done in the past while preserving creeks and the [Little Beaver Creek] watershed for future generations,‰?? said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
In a complaint filed with the consent decree, federal and state agencies allege that between 1961 and 1973, portions of the site were owned and operated by a chemical manufacturing plant known as the Nease Chemical Co.
Nease Chemical produced specialty products, including pesticides such as Mirex, a probable human carcinogen no longer produced in the United States.
Hazardous substances derived from these products were detected in the soil, groundwater, sediments, floodplains and wetlands in the area, as well as in the fish in the nearby Middle Fork of Little Beaver Creek.
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TODDLERS ARE AT HIGHEST RISK FOR CHEMICAL BURNS TO THE EYES
Tags: public, discovery, environmental, cleaners
Accidents involving chemicals splashed in the eyes were long regarded as a workplace risk.
But it turns out that toddlers have the highest risk for this potentially blinding injury at home, according to a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology last month. Before a parent can stop them, curious babies may spray themselves in the face with a household cleaner or squeeze a liquid detergent packet till it explodes.
Most parents know to keep liquid cleaning products out of children‰??s reach so they do not drink them, but may be unaware that even products like toilet cleaning sprays and alcohol-based hand sanitizers must be kept out of reach.
Chemical eye burns from industrial chemicals and cleaning products are usually considered a problem in industrial settings. That is why the Occupational Safety and Health Administration mandates the use of safety goggles and face shields in certain jobs.
Using a database of 900 emergency departments nationwide, researchers found that 1- and 2-year-olds had the highest rates of eye injuries from chemicals. Roughly 28 out of 100,000 1-year-olds and 23 out of every 100,000 2-year-olds had chemical eye burns while only 13 out of every 100,000 adults ages 18 to 64 did.
‰??Just about every eye doctor has seen this,‰?? said Dr. Alex Levin, the chief of pediatric ophthalmology at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, who did not participate in the new study. ‰??It‰??s a potentially blinding problem that is a completely preventable tragedy.‰??
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