News tagged with 'Toxic and Hazardous Substances'

California’s Air Resources Board will convene this week to review study findings that suggest workers continuously exposed to diesel exhaust from vehicles on the highway, loading docks and city streets have an elevated risk of developing lung cancer compared to other workers.

California Attorney General Jerry Brown and the Los Angeles city attorney have filed suit against toymakers that have distributed products with an “unlawful” quantity of lead. The lawsuit names 20 toymakers and says companies knowingly exposed consumers to contaminants that cause cancer and reproductive harm and did nothing to warn the public. The suit is intended to force more compliance with state law and Proposition 65 which requires warning labels on dangerous products. 

The image on ABC Television is shocking.  A young model faints on Israeli television before being rushed to the hospital. She weights barely 60 pounds. Now that model, Hila Elmalich, is dead and the photographer

Andrea Conover keeps a dog-eared list of foods that contain fewer pesticides taped to her kitchen cupboard. She takes it with her when she shops for organic food at a Jacksonville, Florida’s natural grocery store, Native Sun. “I want what’s healthier for my family,” she says.  “I think pesticides on conventional produce are not good for us.”

FEMA Halts Trailer Donations and Sales Updated August 2007: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has stopped trailer donations and sales while explores claims that the trailers are making the Katrina and Rita victims sick from over-exposure to formaldehyde . Federal health sci

Slow Response from FEMA for Toxic Trailers Updated July 2007: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been accused of refusing to acknowledge high levels of formaldehyde in trailers that were provided to Hurricane Katrina victims , in a House oversight committee on Thursday, July 19

A Canadian study suggests that petting zoos are not up to par in a number of hygienic areas. Researchers sent people to 36 different petting zoos to observe the quality of hygiene, and what they found was not promising. Many of the petting zoos included animals that are at a high risk for spreading in

E. Coli Tainted Beef Prompts Recall Updated June 2007- Following an alert on June 3 rd, 2007, about a potential E. coli contamination, the United Food Group in California has recalled over 5.7 million pounds of fresh and frozen beef. Initially the recall included only 75,000 pounds of ground

According to numerous insurance organizations, the number of toxic mold lawsuits filed in the United States has tripled in the last three years. In a report last week, the Insurance Information Institute revealed that 10,000 mold cases are currently pending in the U.S. Attorneys nationwide have reported fielding incr

Exposure to lead levels considered safe by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may actually impair a child's intellectual abilities, according to a new report on the toxic substance. As part of the study, researchers from Cornell University followed 172 infants, testing their blood for lead starting a

A New York jury awarded $47 million Wednesday to a 54-year-old boilermaker who suffers from a severe form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. Plaintiff Robert Crouteau worked as a contractor for two New York utility companies, Consolidated Edison Inc. and KeySpan Corp. unit Long Island Lighting Co. (LILCO), unti

Children who play on arsenic-treated wooden playground equipment increase their risk of developing lung or bladder cancer later in life, according to a report released by officials with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The chairman of the CPSC told health officials that for every million children exposed

A California jury recently awarded $11.5 million to a woman who developed a rare lung cancer from washing her husband's asbestos-riddled work clothing. In October 2001, Genevieve Gunderson, 75, was diagnosed with mesothelioma, an incurable cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. From 1948 to 1963, Gunderson's ex-husba

A Federal inspector accused the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Thursday of failing to take proper action against a meat processing plant linked to the recent listeria outbreak in the Northeast. Vincent Erthal, a meat and poultry inspector with the USDA, claims he filed two years of reports detailing pe

The family of a Missouri woman who died of mesothelioma due to asbestos exposure as a child was awarded $5.1 million by a St. Louis jury. Plaintiff attorneys argued that Stephanie Foster, who died in March 2001 at the age of 42, was exposed to deadly asbestos fibers as a toddler due to her father's occupation with Aer