Word: carcinogenic
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Several Administration officials are also skeptical about the EPA's conclusions. Last June draft language classifying ELF fields as a "probable carcinogen" was deleted from an earlier version of the EPA report after it was reviewed by the White House. At the time, the EPA denied that it was pressured into dropping the offending words...
...Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control have a well-earned reputation for relentlessly tracking down the causes of such mysterious ailments as Legionnaires' disease. But the agency's record is in danger of being blemished by a bitter controversy over Agent Orange, a defoliant containing dioxin, a suspected carcinogen...
Last week Perrier announced that it was recalling its product worldwide, having already reclaimed 72 million bottles from stores and restaurants in North America. Reason: traces of benzene, a known carcinogen, had been found in the water, first in the U.S., then at the very plant where the water is bottled in Vergeze, France. Yuppies shuddered, bartenders flinched, lime futures tumbled and normally well-hydrated joggers faced desiccation rather than switch to Schweppes. To the true believers, those who used it to spray their camellias or rinse their lingerie or boil fusilli or water their Scotch, there could...
...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...