Word: hazards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lately the housewife's attention has been sought by new suitors: consumerists, ecologists and politicians, who warn that enzymes could be a health hazard and detergent phosphates a major despoiler of the environment. Embattled soapmakers deny the first charge and dispute the second, but their romance with homemakers is strained. Sales of enzyme pre-soaks have slid from a high of $75 million in 1969 to about $25 million now. For the first time in years, detergent sales in 1970 did not grow, running at an estimated $1.2 billion, about the same...
...eliminate the dust, the soap companies began making their products in the form of tiny, coated beads. As for skin irritations, the detergent makers tested their products on many volunteers and pronounced enzymes safe. Disagreeing, the American Academy of Allergy declared in January that enzymes are indeed a potential hazard. The Federal Trade Commission has just completed a study of enzymes but has not yet released its findings...
Though the detergent industry continues to defend the use of phosphates, manufacturers are casting about for a substitute cleaning agent. NTA, a nitrogen-based ingredient, seemed briefly promising until it was found to be a potential health hazard. A return to soap chips is not feasible because they would literally gum up the works of most automatic washing machines...
Ferner was sixth individually while Platz was 25th. Senior Rowley Hazard finished 19th...
...large areas, most of the trees appeared dead and bamboo had spread over the ground. A danger in this is that the invading bamboo species may be essentially worthless and very expensive to eradicate. Bamboo will retard the reestablishment of forest trees, at least for many decades. A further hazard is that large amounts of nutrient minerals previously tied up in forest vegetation may have been released and leached out of sprayed forests by the heavy tropical rains." The danger from this "nutrient dumping" is that on a large scale soil fertility would be reduced drastically...