August 27, 2009
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Health & Safety Newsletter August 27, 2009 |
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EPA announces new steps to protect Americans from lead poisoning
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a series of steps to increase protections against and raise awareness of lead-based products in our environment and communities, particularly to prevent lead poisoning in children. The steps announced are: Additional proposed requirements to protect children from lead-based pain A new effort to ban the manufacture of lead in tire weights A lead poisoning prevention video contest, asking people to submit videos demonstrating steps that can be taken to prevent childhood lead poisoning “As both EPA Administrator and as ... |
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US drinking water and watersheds widely contaminated by hormone disrupting pesticide, Atrazine
A widely used pesticide known to impact wildlife development and, potentially, human health has contaminated watersheds and drinking water throughout much of the United States, according to a new report released by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Banned by the European Union, atrazine is the most commonly detected pesticide in U.S. waters and is a known endocrine disruptor, which means that it affects human and animal hormones. It has been tied to poor sperm quality in humans and hermaphroditic amphibians. “Evidence shows Atrazine contamination to be a widespread and dangerous ... |
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