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David J. Monroe '78 said yesterday he asked James D. Wuest, assistant professor of Chemistry, to discontinue experiments involving dioxane, chloroform, carbon tetrachloride and benzene which are known to produce cancer in laboratory animals...
Value Judgments. Ever since, the FDA has preferred to err on the safe side. In the past few years it has restricted the use of hexachlorophene as a disinfectant and banned chloroform for use in cough medicines and sequential-type (imitative of natural hormone cycles) birth control pills. In 1976 the agency took off the market Red Dye No. 2, the most widely used coloring in food and cosmetics. FDA officials conceded that there was no proof that the dye was unsafe but contended that manufacturers could not prove it was safe-even though the substance had been used...
...Indeed most specialists in the new field of environmental disease believe that 85% of all cancers are caused by exposure to substances in the air or water. These include everything from compounds in tobacco and automotive fumes to asbestos, vinyl chloride, the pesticide dieldrin, carbon tetrachloride and chloroform...
Concern arose last year when the Environmental Protection Agency's Cincinnati laboratory found that the levels of some hazardous chemicals in polluted water-most notably carbon tetrachloride and chloroform-increased when passed through municipal water-treatment plants...
...city officials announced that they would investigate the water supply further.) Actually, the link between chlorination and the formation of these chemicals was confirmed abroad. J.J. Rook, a Dutch scientist, added chlorine to contaminated river water and to relatively pure lake water. The concentration of carbon tetrachloride and chloroform rose sharply in the polluted water, but not in the sample from the lake...