Word: carcinogenicity
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...spaghetti sauce over Unilever's Ragu because Campbell runs a day-care center and Unilever invests in South Africa. Consumers are eating chicken instead of tuna salad because thousands of dolphins drown each year in tuna nets. They have put pressure on Uniroyal to halt distribution of the suspected carcinogen Alar, a chemical used to ripen apples and keep them crisp, which may have influenced the company's decision last month to take Alar off the U.S. market...
...standard to another fruit that set off a similar fruit frenzy a week earlier. It started with a report from the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environmental group, that apples treated with the growth regulator Alar were soaking small children with dangerously high levels of daminozide, a possible carcinogen. 60 Minutes aired the story, and actress Meryl Streep, now a leading lady in the fight against pesticides, was quickly booked solid on talk shows and Capitol Hill. Soon apples were ordered removed from school cafeterias in New York City, then Los Angeles and Chicago. Said one school official...
...passive smoking to lung cancer in non-smoking spouses of smokers. Chronic exposure to tobacco smoke in the workplace is also deleterious to the health of non-smokers, according to a 1980 study in the New England Journal of Medicine. Passive tobacco smoke is America's most dangerous airborne carcinogen and is estimated to be two orders of magnitude more harmful than carcinogens currently regulated as hazardous air pollutants under the Federal Clean...
...myth of Harvard's communication gap with its student body. In the case of the students in Mower Hall A-21, the Dunbar Lab officials ordered the inspection of the room but neglected to inform residents of removal plans and inspection findings or warn them about exposure to the carcinogen...
...University has been inspecting other buildings for similar problems with the potential carcinogen. "We have a rather large program underway," said Weinert...