Tests on 13 Mainers Find Industrial Chemicals
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By KEVIN MILLER; OF THE NEWS STAFF  Environmental and health groups say the presence of dozens of industrial chemicals in 13 Mainers who volunteered for a study underscores the need for new policies to protect the public from potential toxins found in everyday consumer products.
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DANVERS, Mass., Nov. 22 -- A chemical plant outside Boston blew up Wednesday with a roar so thunderous that people thought it was an earthquake or a plane crash, destroying two dozen homes in the tightly packed neighborhood but causing only minor injuries.
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Holiday shoppers may worry about whether the toys they buy contain lead, but some scientists are urging consumers to focus on the thousands of chemicals in everyday household items.
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Legislation requiring safety testing of tens of thousands of chemicals comes into effect across the EU.
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Farmed salmon have been found to accumulate much higher levels of chemical flame retardants than their wild counterparts, raising alarm that they might pose an increased cancer risk.
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By Sharon Kiley Mack, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec.
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A COCKTAIL of chemicals, some at levels above legal limits, has been found in samples of fresh fruit and other foods.   Some apples, grapes, aubergines and yams carried pesticide traces above the legal threshold, according to the official Pesticides Residues Directorate.
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Â· Third of all food products tested had chemical tracesÂ· Very small percentage of samples posed health risk
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Health officials are looking closely at some worrisome research on flame retardants. A new study has found high levels of chemicals called PBDEs in mothers&#39; breast milk.
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ANSONIA, Conn. - They were looking for drugs, but also found bugs...
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Scientists looking into air quality and climate change have found pollutants from as far as Asia over New England and the Atlantic.
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By Dave Gustafson  daveg@wvgazette.com  When a child gets into the chemicals stored beneath the sink or a hazardous materials tank leaks in a neighborhood, there is always someone like V.
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By Paul Sand, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 13--A chlorine leak at a chemical plant on Tacoma's waterfront Monday night sent a large force of firefighters and medical personnel to the scene and forced the evacuation of the industrial area around the plant.
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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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A study finds that many of them are high in phthalates EM] chemicals that have been linked to adverse health effects in high doses
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Federal researchers have found children involved in a northern Nevada leukemia cluster are more prone to have a variation in a gene that helps combat unsafe chemicals, and more research is needed to learn the reasons why.
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The chemicals go down the drain, but in the environment they remain. Researchers have found that a complex brew of everyday compounds &#151; from products as ubiquitous as shampoo, bug spray and even that morning cup of coffee &#151; lingers in Minnesota waters even after they're showered off or dumped down the sink.