Word: toxication
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report submitted in late 1984 to the Commissioner of Health and Hospitals by a specially created Scientific Advisory Committee cites "uncertainties" complicating a full risk analysis of ADL's Levins Laboratory. On each of six separate occasion in as many months, ADL indicated radically different maximum amounts is of toxic chemicals "on hand at the lab" ranging from 1/10 liter to 1 lite. Considering the high toxicity of the agents, this range represents huge differences for risk assessment...
...acre research complex, referred to benignly as a "campus" or "Acorn Park," the Levins Laboratory is located. Though security reasons could be cited, the withholding of such information could introduce an error of several hundred feet in the Advisory Committee's estimate of the range of toxic effects from a leak or explosion, and consequently, make the already highly uncertain assessment practically useless...
...image of inhospitable communities knocking an unwanted company around like a ping pong ball leads some to propose a central authority for arbitration. No regulations of supertoxins now exist in the U.S. except through DOD contracts. Toxic chemical legislation such as the Massachussetts Hazardous Waste Managagement Act, and the policies of such agencies as the Deportment of Public Health, apply exclusively to industrial waste and spills--certainly not to chemical warfare agents...
...week, which left 40 unsuspecting people injured, may seem quite removed for most Cantabrigians. And so might a similar industrial disaster in Bhopal, India which killed 2000 and injured 200,000 more last December. In both cases, Union Carbide officials had repeatedly assured local residents that a release of toxic chemicals into their communities was highly unlikely...
From neighborhood meetings with company officials in nearby Arlington and Belmont to the chambers of the Cambridge City Council, a chorus of politicians and citizens alike have echoed one resounding sentiment the risks associated with the testing of toxic nerve agents far outweigh any benefits to the third a densely population populated city in America...