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Subject: [DCHAS-L] Chemical Safety headlines (10 articles)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 06:38:31 -0400
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Wednesday, August 11, 2021 at 6:38:19 AM
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‰??IT WAS A BLUR; HE FLEW BY:‰?? WITNESSES SAY POOL GUY PLOWED INTO HOME, NEARLY KILLING ELDERLY COUPLE INSIDE
Tags: us_FL, transportation, release, injury, unknown_chemical, pool_chemicals
GRIEG CHLORINE SPILL MAY HAVE KILLED 96,000 SALMON ‰?? FISH FARMER MAGAZINE
Tags: Norway, industrial, release, response, chlorine
CITY WORKER HOSPITALIZED AFTER HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL RELEASED DURING TRASH PICKUP
Tags: us_CA, transportation, release, injury, waste
FORT ATKINSON FIRE DESTROYS WAREHOUSE, INJURES FIREFIGHTERS, DRAINS WATER TOWER
Tags: us_IL, industrial, explosion, injury, unknown_chemical
FDA RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT PFAS IN FOOD
Tags: public, discovery, environmental, other_chemical
WATER MAIN BREAK TO BLAME FOR THOUSANDS OF DEAD FISH IN NEW JERSEY LAKE, CREEK
Tags: us_NJ, public, release, environmental, unknown_chemical
STATE MOVES TOWARD PHASEOUT OF FIREFIGHTING FOAM WITH HARMFUL ‰??FOREVER CHEMICALS‰??
Tags: us_IL, industrial, follow-up, environmental, other_chemical
EPA ORDERED TO UPDATE RULES ON OIL SPILL-FIGHTING CHEMICALS
Tags: us_CA, public, follow-up, environmental, oils
IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LITERATURE REVIEWS IN CHEMISTRY: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
Tags: laboratory, discovery, environmental
A HOLISTIC STRATEGY FOR CYANIDE CONTROL AND SAFETY FOR PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING
Tags: us_NJ, industrial, discovery, environmental, cyanide, waste
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‰??IT WAS A BLUR; HE FLEW BY:‰?? WITNESSES SAY POOL GUY PLOWED INTO HOME, NEARLY KILLING ELDERLY COUPLE INSIDE
https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-county/it-was-a-blur-he-flew-by-witnesses-say-pool-guy-plowed-into-home-nearly-killing-elderly-couple-inside/
Tags: us_FL, transportation, release, injury, unknown_chemical, pool_chemicals
REDINGTON BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) ‰?? A man crashed his car into a home on Bath Club Drive Tuesday afternoon, with witnesses saying he nearly killed the occupants inside.
The elderly couple living inside the home was watching television in the next room when a pool maintenance man, according to witnesses, plowed into the home.
‰??He flew by like a blur,‰?? said Tony Napolitano from Premier Pools & Spa.
Napolitano was working with his crew several doors down and witnessed the incident. The pool company he works for is unrelated to the pool maintenance man who crashed into the home.
‰??The impact was solid; we thought the person was dead,‰?? said Napolitano. ‰??He‰??s a pool maintenance guy, so he was carrying hazardous materials.
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GRIEG CHLORINE SPILL MAY HAVE KILLED 96,000 SALMON ‰?? FISH FARMER MAGAZINE
https://www.fishfarmermagazine.com/news/grieg-chlorine-spill-may-have-killed-96000-salmon/
Tags: Norway, industrial, release, response, chlorine
Grieg Seafood is thought to have lost more than 400 tonnes of salmon after a major spillage of chlorine escaped into the sea next to a slaughterhouse in Altafjord, northern Norway.
It is the second incident to affect the company in less than a fortnight. At the beginning of August it said it was being forced to cull around a million salmon and postpone its first transfer until next year after discovering just one case of Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) at its farms in Newfoundland.
It said the move was a precautionary measure and no further cases of ISA had been discovered.
The chlorine spill in Altafjord this week was a large one, totalling around 15,000 litres and significant enough for the emergency services to brought in. Chlorine is a chemical normally used to disinfect the water in slaughterhouses. The equivalent loss in fish numbers could be more than 90,000 at an average weight of around four kilos.
The Norwegian news outlet VG reports that the company is in the process of assessing the situation but it is thought the chemical escaped from a large storage tank into a waiting cage plant.
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CITY WORKER HOSPITALIZED AFTER HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL RELEASED DURING TRASH PICKUP
https://abc30.com/fresno-hazmat-situation-chemical-spill-pool-acid/10942673/
Tags: us_CA, transportation, release, injury, waste
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A city worker was taken to the hospital after inhaling a hazardous chemical left during a curbside trash pickup on Tuesday.
Fresno fire officials say waste collectors were picking up trash on Dearing and Minarets Avenues in northeast Fresno.
That's when workers saw a cloud of vapor after the pile of trash was dumped into the truck.
The Fresno Fire Department's hazmat teams were called to help decontaminate the area.
The neighborhood was closed off while crews washed down the acid, neutralizing it. The area has since been reopened.
Investigators found that someone had left a bottle of pool acid in the trash pile.
The city worker was taken to a hospital for observation. Officials say they are expected to recover.
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FORT ATKINSON FIRE DESTROYS WAREHOUSE, INJURES FIREFIGHTERS, DRAINS WATER TOWER
https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/fort-atkinson-residents-urged-to-consider-evacuation-as-structure-fire-blazes/article_f89d022b-1f78-5974-893f-ef5730a3462f.html
Tags: us_IL, industrial, explosion, injury, unknown_chemical
large warehouse fire in Fort Atkinson Tuesday displaced about 50 residents and injured some of the 150 firefighters called to the scene.
An explosion at a chemical plant near the northern Illinois community of Rockton sparked a massive fire that sent flames and huge plumes of thick black smoke high into the air Monday morning.
The fire was reported around noon in the 700 block of Oak Street on the city‰??s north side, police said. There was no one in the building at the time.
Fire Chief Daryl Rausch said at a press conference Tuesday evening that some firefighters suffered injuries due to the heat and were treated at the scene or taken to a local hospital.
Rausch said crews nearly ‰??drained the city water system‰?? while combating the blaze, leading to the department‰??s decision to let the rest of the building and its contents burn. The warehouse contained tires for military vehicles, unspecified chemicals and cans from a local canning company.
Both the state Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency were on site monitoring the quality of the water and air in the area.
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FDA RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT PFAS IN FOOD
https://cen.acs.org/environment/persistent-pollutants/FDA-raises-concerns-PFAS-food/99/web/2021/08
Tags: public, discovery, environmental, other_chemical
The US Food and Drug Administration is reminding manufacturers that only certain processes are allowed for fluorinating polyethylene containers used to store food. The warning comes following reports earlier this year of toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) migrating into pesticides stored in fluorinated high-density polyethylene containers.
In an Aug. 5 letter to industry, the FDA clarifies that fluorinated polyethylene containers used for food can only be made using fluorine gas in the presence of nitrogen to modify the surface of a molded container. Fluorination in the presence of water, oxygen, or inert gases other than nitrogen is not allowed because such processes can lead to the formation of toxic PFAS that can migrate into food, the agency says. Fluorination of polyethylene food containers during the molding process is also prohibited.
The FDA claims that it sent the letter out of an abundance of caution, not because it is aware of any unauthorized fluorinated polyethylene containers being used to store food. ‰??It is important to note that there is no evidence of unlawful manufacturing processes being used for food containers,‰?? Susan Mayne, director of the FDA‰??s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, says in a statement. ‰??We are encouraging manufacturers and distributors to consult with us regarding the regulatory status of any manufacturing processes used to produce fluorinated polyethylene containers for use in contact with food,‰?? she says.
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WATER MAIN BREAK TO BLAME FOR THOUSANDS OF DEAD FISH IN NEW JERSEY LAKE, CREEK
https://bronx.news12.com/water-main-break-to-blame-for-thousands-of-dead-fish-in-new-jersey-lake-creek
Tags: us_NJ, public, release, environmental, unknown_chemical
New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection, as well as the Middlesex County Hazmat, are being forced to deal with thousands of dead fish, and last week's water main break in Piscataway is to blame.
The break caused water to enter, and overwhelm, the sanitary sewer system, which apparently sent wastewater full of contaminants legally into local waters.
Officials have been removing dead fish from Creighton Lake in Middlesex Borough, as well as Ambrose Creek. Both were impacted by wastewater discharges after the water main break forced customers of New Jersey American Water in several towns in Middlesex and Union counties to boil their water.
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STATE MOVES TOWARD PHASEOUT OF FIREFIGHTING FOAM WITH HARMFUL ‰??FOREVER CHEMICALS‰??
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/8/9/22617540/pfas-forever-chemicals-firefighting-foam-illinois-j-b-pritzker
Tags: us_IL, industrial, follow-up, environmental, other_chemical
Illinois will take a first step toward reducing the use of firefighting foam containing harmful ‰??forever chemicals‰?? under a bill signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker Friday.
The measure aims to curb the use of one source of PFAS chemicals that are tied to a host of health threats, largely through a limitation on using the foam for anything other than emergencies. Fire departments that want to conduct emergency drills or test the foam have to take precautions that prevent the chemicals from reaching waterways through sewer systems, for instance.
The bill, a compromise between environmental groups, an association of fire chiefs and industry groups, does not restrict any use in an emergency. The foam is used for serious industrial fires like those that can occur at a refinery, chemical plant or another source of flammable liquids.
Separately, state officials found more than 100 drinking water systems across Illinois with some PFAS contamination, the Sun-Times recently reported. The chemicals are used in a number of products, from stain-resistant clothing to non-stick pans.
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EPA ORDERED TO UPDATE RULES ON OIL SPILL-FIGHTING CHEMICALS
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/epa-ordered-to-update-rules-on-oil-spill-fighting-chemicals/
Tags: us_CA, public, follow-up, environmental, oils
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ‰?? A federal judge ruled Monday that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must update nearly three-decade-old regulations about the chemicals that can be used to disperse offshore oil spills, which some environmental groups contend cause serious health problems.
The agency ‰??delayed unreasonably‰?? by waiting at least six years to finalize draft regulations updating the 1994 rules, said William H. Orrick, a judge in the U.S. district court for the Northern District of California.
The EPA now has a deadline of May 31, 2023, to take final action on listing and authorizing the chemicals and in the meantime must submit regular status reports, Orrick ruled.
An email seeking comment from an EPA representative in California wasn‰??t immediately returned.
A lawsuit filed last year on behalf of environmental groups, a health aide in Alaska and a commercial fisher in the Gulf Coast argued that the EPA was unreasonably dragging its feet in updating portions of a required national contingency plan on oil spills to reflect new science and updated testing procedures.
‰??Instead of mitigating environmental harm, chemical dispersants have proven ‰?? when mixed with oil ‰?? to be more toxic to humans and the environment than the oil alone,‰?? said a statement Monday from the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the plaintiffs.
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IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LITERATURE REVIEWS IN CHEMISTRY: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chas.1c00046
Tags: laboratory, discovery, environmental
The quality of literature reviews can be highly variable, depending not only on the author‰??s knowledge of the topic but also their skill in navigating and synthesizing the literature. This paper discusses different types of review articles and provides information on how to improve the quality of literature reviews in chemistry, through better planning, rigorous literature searching, and thoughtful construction. Using these tools and techniques, authors will be able to craft higher quality, methodologically sound reviews that will more accurately reflect the state of the literature and will more clearly communicate that information to the reader.
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A HOLISTIC STRATEGY FOR CYANIDE CONTROL AND SAFETY FOR PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.oprd.1c00185
Tags: us_NJ, industrial, discovery, environmental, cyanide, waste
The manufacturing route toward gefapixant citrate generates a trace amount of cyanide as a byproduct of a reaction employing the reagent chloroacetonitrile. In the development of a cyanide control strategy, conventional process and analytical approaches fell short because of challenges and incompatibilities with the matrices of the process and waste streams. To overcome these, we identified and adapted specific procedures for cyanide control. Our strategy ensured safety for patients, operators, and waste management.
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