Valentine Roses Hit With Toxic Chemicals
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By JOSHUA GOODMAN  BOGOTA, Colombia - It's probably the last thing most people think about when buying roses - by the time the bright, velvety flowers reach your Valentine, they will have been sprayed, rinsed and dipped in a battery of potentially lethal chemicals.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - When five dozen roses didn't work, an estranged husband took out a full-page newspaper ad to ask his wife for forgiveness. "Please believe the words in my letter, they are true and from my heart," read the ad in Tuesday's edition of The Florida Times-Union.
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Dried apples preserved with a cancer-causing chemical.
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Low levels of man-made chemicals in basic foods could combine to harm humans, a conservation charity warns.
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The website HealthyToys.org provides parents and gift-givers a much-needed resource to help weed out the toys that contain high levels of lead, arsenic, mercury, PVC plastic, and other chemicals.
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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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Researchers find higher levels of certain chemicals in people suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome and similar conditions. By Randy Dotinga.
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A FATHER has been living apart from his family for more than a year because he complained he was acutely sensitive to everyday chemicals in the house near Fishguard, west Wales.   Guy Wood, 47, claims he has multiple chemical sensitivity.  (c) 2006 Evening Mail; Birmingham (UK).
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If you are giving or receiving roses this Valentineâs Day, chances are that they came from the same countries that produced your coffee.
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By LISA ARROWSMITH  EDMONTON (CP) - A toxic stew of chemicals from birth control pills, shampoo and even compounds used to make foam seating pours out of sewers and pipes across Canada every day, and hundreds of scientists say Ottawa must do more to stop it.
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By Stanley Ziemba, Chicago Tribune  Mar. 9--A forklift punctured a drum containing a chemical used in producing plastics at a Willow Springs plant late Wednesday, creating noxious fumes that sent eight workers at a nearby UPS facility to the hospital, officials said Thursday.
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Roses are red, my love, violets are blue. Sugar is sweet, my love, but a &#36;100,000 tribute is too much ado.
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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.
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A flavoring chemical from the products is linked to a lung ailment in popcorn plant workers.
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PEOPLE are being exposed to toxic chemicals through the food they eat, according to a new report.  Traces of man-made pollutants, which are linked to health problems including cancer and foetal deformities, were found in every one of 27 food products tested.
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Baby shampoos, lotions and powders may expose infants to chemicals that have been linked with possible reproductive problems, a small study suggests.
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It's probably the last thing most people think about when buying roses. But by the time the velvety, vibrant-colored flowers reach a Valentine's Day buyer, they will have been sprayed, rinsed and dipped in a battery of potentially lethal chemicals.