Word: carcinogen
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...potential carcinogen was discovered by North Carolina health officials, who so prize the purity of the water from an underground spring in Vergeze, France, that they use it as a standard test of other water supplies. Although the state advises the public not to consume the product, the federal Food and Drug Administration considers the risks of contracting cancer one in a million over a person's lifetime. The company is investigating its packaging and distribution centers to locate the problem. In the wake of doubts cast on oat bran's nutritional benefits, it's almost enough to drive yuppies...
Lurking in ceiling tiles and insulation, wrapped around heating pipes and boilers, asbestos -- that once beloved fireproof mineral, now dreaded as a carcinogen -- is virtually everywhere in American buildings. Communities and companies around the country have been spending millions of dollars in a race to remove the lethal stuff. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that at least 733,000 public and commercial buildings and up to 45,000 of the nation's 100,000 schools contain asbestos in a potentially dangerous condition. While the cost of removing it could reach hundreds of billions of dollars over the next...
Opponents, organized into a Coalition Against Urban Spraying, argue that some academic and foreign research shows that Malathion is a potential carcinogen -- a claim the state adamantly rejects. "The opposition so far is just a small dose of what's coming," warns David Bunn, a local leader of the environmental group Pesticide Watch. The most bizarre protest of all has been a letter to Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and local newspapers, sent by an ecoterrorist organization calling itself the Breeders, which claimed to be breeding and releasing its own medflies. The organization's alleged purpose: to render the medfly...
...cost of ridding buildings of asbestos insulation runs about $20 per sq. ft., or 100 times as much as the cost of installing the fireproofing mineral in the days before it was known to be a potent carcinogen. One result: in as many as half of all demolition or renovation jobs involving asbestos removal, the contractors or building owners ignore the costly safety procedures that the Environmental Protection Agency has had in effect since...
...most serious case people usually make against grapefruit is that it's a bit too tart. But last week consumer groups in South Korea launched a boycott of U.S. grapefruit because they believe the produce is contaminated with Alar, a chemical preservative and suspected carcinogen that has been used by apple processors...