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...taken his cases directly to the top. In April 1977, he alerted HEW Secretary Joseph Califano to existing FDA records linking phenformin, a drug used by one-fifth of all diabetics taking oral medication, to bad reactions in 190 cases and 93 deaths. Califano responded by invoking the "imminent hazard" law, which had never before been used, and banned the substance. Only last month, following another letter from Wolfe, Califano issued a sweeping warning about the dangers of DES, a drug once given to pregnant women to help prevent miscarriages that has since been shown to produce cancer or genital...
Robinson added that he recently inspected parts of the dorm in question, but did not find anything that constituted a health hazard...
Charles J. Krause Jr., sanitary inspector for University Health Services (UHS), said last week that he had also received a copy of O'Leary's letter, but did not agree that the temporary employees constitute a health hazard...
...part of the College's effort to isolate the current salmonella infection includes a moratorium on the hiring of temporary employees in the dining halls--a move that comes almost a month after a Freshman Union employee objected to the use of the temporary workers as a possible health hazard...
...respect. At the Kurchatov, for example, scientists seemed blissfully unconcerned as visiting journalists leaned against flimsy railings to gaze down into an open experimental pool reactor and marvel at the blue radiation glow that emanated from its fuel rods. While the radiation itself was under water and posed no hazard, a dropped camera or notebook, not to mention a reporter who might have fallen into the pool, could have contaminated the reactor and forced its shutdown...