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Scientific researchers at Harvard and other local laboratories may someday have to gain municipal permission to test certain toxic substances if the city of Cambridge adopts the recommendations of its Scientific Advisory Committee...
Chalten called the latest order "part of a continuing process" in a legal struggle between the city and the company, which is under a Defense Department contract to develop an agent to neutralize nerve gas and other less toxic gases...
...other council business, Cambridge's Scientific Advisory Committee delivered its final report on the risks associated with the storage and testing of nerve gas at the Arthur D. Little Laboratory in North Cambridge. The committee concluded that the risks posed by experimentation with these toxic agents far outweighs the possible benefits...
...Irradiation could lead to the formation of unique radiolytic products, a group of chemicals which are vaguely understood and may be toxic. According to a 1980 FDA report, irradiated foods may contain enough of these chemicals to "warrent toxicological evaluation...
...current promotion of irradiation treatment is particularly troubling in light of contentions by some scientists that safer alternatives do exist. For example, diatomaceous earth used for years by some grain farmers is a non-toxic insecticide, with none of the side effects of irradiation...