Drinking-Water Disinfectant Produces Toxic Compound
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NEW YORK  - A chlorine alternative used in  the U.S. to disinfect some public drinking water can produce a  class of byproducts far more toxic than those generated by  chlorine, a new study suggests.
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Science & environment: You'll find fluoride in tea, beer and fish, so why the serious opposition to putting it in our drinking water?
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By Staff Reports  A woman who was overcome by a leaking dry-cleaning chemical and fell unconscious into a chemical puddle Thursday was decontaminated at the site and taken to a hospital.
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By Sandra Barrera\\ Staff Writer  Drinking fluoridated water may ruin your baby's smile.
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As many as 75,000 people may have drunk water contaminated by dry cleaning fluid at the Marine base at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.
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Mexican cantaloupe irrigated with water from sewage-tainted rivers. Candy laced with lead. Chinese toothpaste is not the only concern for U.S. consumers wary of the health risks posed by imported goods.
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A Seattle-area woman died early yesterday, two weeks after she was accidentally injected with a toxic cleansing solution during a medical procedure at Seattle&#39;s Virginia Mason Hospital.
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By DAVID DISHNEAU  HAGERSTOWN, Md. - An environmental group asked the federal government Tuesday to ban a class of toxic chemical compounds that are found in industrial and household detergents and are believed to cause male fish to develop female characteristics.
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By Alexandra Mayer-Hohdahl, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Jun. 19--LOWELL -- Members of the Lowell Fire Department and its Hazardous Materials Team worked early Monday afternoon to contain a substance that had been spotted on the water of the city's Northern Canal.
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No one poisoned from arsenide pollution incident in C. China county    YUEYANG, Hunan Province, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- No one has been reported to get poisoned at Yueyang County in central China's Hunan Province, where the source of drinking water was found polluted with arsenide Friday.
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_ State health officials said Monday that the city was in violation of federal drinking water rules for the past six years by supplying incomplete results from its annual lead tests.
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A surprising number of drinking water systems on domestic and foreign commercial aircraft tested this summer by the government did not meet federal standards because they were contaminated with potentially harmful bacteria, regulators said on Monday.
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WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency said last week that 12.6 percent of the planes it tested had drinking water on board that failed to meet the agency&#39;s standards.
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By Carol Eisenberg, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Jun. 13--WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff   yesterday urged operators of water and waste treatment plants to secure chemicals such as chlorine from terrorists, although they're not required to do so.
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By Virgil Williams; Ron Eisenberg  SEARCHING through the shelves at the supermarket, it seems as if all household cleaning products contain harmful chemicals that are dangerous to breathe or handle. This raises the question: Are there any alternatives that are safer and not toxic.
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Up to half of the water used in water  coolers across China&#39;s capital could be &quot;fake,&quot; or not as pure  as its manufacturers claim, state media said on Tuesday of the  latest in a series of health scares.
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By Salley Williams Western Mail  The true scale of chemical intrusion into our daily lives has been exposed as research shows the toxins in 'healthy' foods like eggs and milk.