Word: toxin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inspectors believe the toxin that killed Malthay entered the container through tiny holes accidentally punched by can-forming equipment made by American Can Co. The firm is working to correct the defect. Says Eric Eckholm, executive director of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute: "We must get the American public to understand that this was a problem with the can and not the product. The failure was with the mechanical process." Meanwhile, Miller has proposed a $5 million campaign to stress the safety of eating Alaska salmon...
...yellow rain" that fell on Long Sa is the focus of a bitter dispute between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Since last fall, Administration officials have accused the Soviet Union and its allies of violating the Geneva Protocol of 1925 and the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention-both treaties have been signed by Moscow-by engaging in chemical warfare. "With every passing day," charged Secretary of State Alexander Haig in February, "we get more incontrovertible evidence of the use of mycotoxins [fungal poisons] in Afghanistan, Laos and Kampuchea [Cambodia] . . . There is no question in our minds that such...
...drawbacks. Needy recipients will have to scrape mold off some of the cheese, which has been stored in 150 warehouses or limestone caves in 35 states for as long as 18 months. But, insists Merritt Sprague, a commodity supervisor for the Department of Agriculture, "mold does not produce toxin that is harmful." Not much variety in the menu, either: the cheese, stored in 5-lb. loaves, is all processed cheddar, the kind sold in grocery stores as "American cheese...
...Governor responded by asking the EPA to re-evaluate its policy on endrin use and petitioning Agency Administrator Anne Gorsuch for more money to monitor the problem in Montana. The state fish and game commission, meanwhile, conducted studies of toxin levels in 100 game fowl and announced that it would decide whether or not hunting could go on. Most hunters, busy polishing their shotguns and checking their decoys, would not comment on the situation...
...water from Cambodia and sent them to the U.S. for analysis. The State Department, in turn, sent the samples to private American laboratories without revealing the source of the evidence or why it was to be examined. The civilian scientists found that the samples contained the chemical agent trichothecene toxin, known as T2. Soviet scientists have published articles on how to mass produce T2, which occurs naturally in grain molds common in the Soviet Union...