Word: toxication
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...Takako became a lathe operator at a cadmium smelter near her home in Annaka, a city on the main island of Honshu. When she began suffering mysterious pains in 1961, no one even thought to blame cadmium. As protection against the toxic metal, which is widely used for electroplating, she wore special rubber clothing. Doctors diagnosed her ailment as "intestinal ulcers." But even eight years after she switched to clerical work, the pain continued. Two summers ago, it got so bad that Takako, 28, leaped from a speeding train and into a river...
...committed suicide. "I would like to stop using cadmium," he said in a farewell note, "but I cannot. I am assuming full responsibility and choosing death." Some U.S. scientists now rank cadmium ahead of lead as a dangerous pollutant. It is a prime candidate for a list of toxic substances that the federal Environmental Protection Agency will publish this month and for which it will set emission limits...
Dioxin occurs as an impurity in Orange, the principal herbicide used in Vietnam. Its potential importance lies in the fact that it is exceedingly toxic, may be quite stable in the environment, and, being fat soluble, may be concentrated as it moves up the food chain into the human diet. Very rough model calculations suggest that it is not impossible that significant amounts of dioxin are entering the Vietnamese diet...
...devices" as well as "the use of bacteriological methods of warfare." In 1969 the General Assembly of the U. N. adopted a resolution recognizing that the Geneva Protocol prohibits "any chemical agents of warfare-chemical substances, whether gaseous, liquid or solid-which might be employed because of their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants . . . , " thus including herbicides...
...Pennsylvania and New England. Gwen lipsticks ($2.50) are naturally colored with extracts of carrots, beets, eggplant, raspberries and blueberries; her face powder is a translucent blend of rice and corn. Of particular benefit to smog-bound skins are the natural-enzyme creams ($6) that "literally digest pollution" by dissolving toxic oils. Sallow, freckled or fading complexions are promised brighter days with Lights Up, a lotion of organic cucumbers and lemons...