Word: carcinogenous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shelves, and in Massachusetts, the public health commissioner recommended that consumers return 46 different cake mixes and grain products to the store. The cause of the panicked shelf cleaning was a chemical called ethylene dibromide, or EDB. A highly effective pesticide similar to DDT, it is also a dangerous carcinogen. Farmers have used EDB to keep bugs off grain and citrus fruit for more than 30 years, and scientists have known the cancer risk for the past ten years. But the Federal Government has been slow to act, prompting nervous state authorities to begin testing and in some cases banning...
ETHYLENE dibromide (EDB) is not a household word, but Duncan Hines, Betty Crocker and Wonder Bread are. So when government officials recently discovered significant levels of the pesticide, a potent carcinogen, in a host of grain and cereal products, a warning cry went out. In the wake of these discoveries, and the public furor that followed, William Ruckelshaus, director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), last week suspended the use of the chemical on grain products...
...contaminated water came from two wells which were shut down in 1979 when organic wastes, including a known carcinogen, were discovered in the water...
...issue came to a head early last year, when Fairchild and Intel Corp., another local chipmaker, reported two major leaks in as many months. At the Fairchild plant in San Jose, workers discovered that a faulty storage tank had discharged some 13,000 gal. of a mildly carcinogenic solvent called TCA into the underground water supply. A few weeks later, Intel announced that a concrete vault had leaked, and that traces of a strong carcinogen, TCE, had turned up in a farmer's well near by. Fairchild has spent $10 million cleaning up its spill, and the company steadfastly...
...Eventually the standard will be to get rid of it all," he said, adding that "nobody knows what they're talking about" when it comes to the carcinogen...