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...noxious cloud that swept over Institute was not MIC but a combination of methylene chloride and aldicarb oxime. At the Institute facility, aldicarb oxime is mixed with MIC to form the active ingredient for Temik, a pesticide widely used on citrus crops. Last week's scare occurred when steam accidentally entered a metal jacket surrounding a tank that stored the chemicals, causing three gaskets to blow and 500 gal of the solution to escape...
...poisonings were apparently caused by aldicarb, a pesticide marketed by Union Carbide under the trade name Temik. Aldicarb effectively protects soybeans, potatoes, cotton, sugar beets and citrus fruits, but is banned for use with watermelon. Some California farmers contend that their melons picked up the chemical from residues in fields where it had been applied to other crops years ago. Union Carbide insists, however, that its tests show aldicarb degrades to safe levels within 180 days. California Department of Food and Agriculture Director Clare Berryhill voiced "strong suspicions" that some farmers had knowingly misused the pesticide and added...
...August, the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration began to investigate Union Carbide, after a leak of the toxic chemical Aldicarb at the company's Institute, W. Va., plant left 141 people hospitalized. Last week OSHA levied a $1.4 million fine against the Danbury, Conn.-based firm for "willful disregard for health and safety" at the Institute plant. It was the largest penalty imposed by OSHA in its 16-year history...
...slopes of Vesuvius. At the height of the harvest two weeks ago, deliveries of tomatoes to canneries were abruptly suspended by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture. Reason: suspicions that much of a 200,000-metric-ton crop, perhaps 30% of a bumper harvest, contained the poisonous insecticide aldicarb. Marketed by Union Carbide under the trade name Temik, this is the chemical that contaminated California watermelons in July...
...Ruckelshaus put off any decision on the use of EDB on citrus fruits. Only about 2% of citrus fruits consumed in the U.S. are treated with the chemical. While there are safe alternative pesticides for grain, no entirely safe substitute has been found yet for citrus. Aldicarb, a granular pesticide, is used in Florida but was temporarily banned last year when traces of it were found in water supplies. Still, some experts argue that the hazards of EDB are exaggerated. "Compared with smoking, the danger of eating a few muffins is incredibly low," says Bruce Ames, chairman of the biochemistry...
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