Word: toxically
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...Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, the ban was put in place last November in response to widespread concerns that leaking chemical drums were contaminating thousands of disposal sites. Critics of the ban, including the Chemical Manufacturers Association, had claimed that sorting out liquid from solid toxic wastes and then getting rid of them was prohibitively expensive. Incineration, for example, costs more than $100 per bbl., vs. $25 simply to bury the stuff. EPA officials admitted last week that even before the ban went into effect, they had decided to scuttle it as "unworkable." Edgy environmentalists think that...
Opponents of the 25% proposal hope that the Administration, burned by the furor over the toxic-wastes ban, will move to rein in the combative EPA. Repeated samplings of public opinion, they argue, demonstrate that environmental protection is still a high priority nationwide. Indeed, pro-environment political-action committees are now working to promote candidates in more than 30 states. Some wary EPA watchers were encouraged by another step taken by the Administration last week. After resisting for a year, the White House authorized the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to require that all chemical containers carry a label describing...
...impact on toxic-shock cases is unclear...
When Procter & Gamble put its first tampon product into national distribution, the ads boasted, "It even absorbs the worry." But Rely tampons soon provoked frantic worry. In 1980 the federal Centers for Disease Control tied tampons to an outbreak of rare-sometimes fatal-toxic-shock syndrome. One study of a group of TSS sufferers found that 71% of them used Rely. Though the product had captured 20% of the market, the company recalled it. Then came the lawsuits-400 against Procter & Gamble, 100 or so against four other manufacturers. Last week plaintiffs and defendants in those cases were watching closely...
Though the jurors apparently decided it did not, lawyers representing women in other TSS cases could take satisfaction from the jury's negligence verdict. It did not explicitly find that Rely caused toxic shock. But Microbiologist Philip Tierno of New York University Medical Center clearly bolstered the plaintiffs case with his testimony that the cellulose chips in Rely "can provide the sole nutrient" to encourage the growth of Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium sometimes present in the vagina. The bacteria, in turn, generate poisonous waste products, which are circulated by the blood...