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Environmental Health News
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Links to articles in today's press about environmental health. Many more links available today at www.EnvironmentalHealthNews.org
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Water agency kept uranium contamination secret.
Southern California's largest water agency kept a groundwater project on its books for eight years without disclosing to key officials or the public that the site is contaminated with uranium and other toxic chemicals, an investigaion has found.
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Pollution studies getting personal.
Minnesota and a handful of other states are increasingly using a technique called biomonitoring to measure chemicals directly in people: their blood, urine, hair and other body tissues and fluids.
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The melamine stain: One sign of a worldwide problem.
The melamine scandal has heightened fears that the food business is racing ahead of the ability of governments to detect health-threatening contamination, whether accidental or deliberate.
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Healthy environment means healthy generations.
More than 33 percent of diseases in children under age 5 are caused by environmental exposure, the World Health Organization reported last year, estimating that more than three million children under age 5 die each year due to environment-related causes and conditions.
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Davao gov?t, farmers push ban on aerial pesticide spraying.
Once a week, the arrival of crop dusters signals farmers to rush indoors or take cover. Residents say anyone caught outdoors during an aerial spray is likely to experience skin itching, eye irritation and nausea.
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Code green, stat!
From biohazard waste to faxing and photocopying, leftover cups of Jell-O and disposable gowns, hospitals can be among the worst offenders when it comes to environmental stewardship.
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Breast cancer risk linked to base.
Researchers from Boston University have found that women who lived near the Massachusetts Military Reservation from 1947 to 1956 had an elevated risk of developing breast cancer several decades later.
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Link found between bisphenol A and heart disease.
A research team from the Peninsula Medical School, the University of Exeter, the University of Plymouth and the University of Iowa, have found evidence linking bisphenol A to diabetes and heart disease in adults.
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Avoid phthalates as much as possible.
The Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction determined that infants' exposure to phthalates is a "serious concern."
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China dairy sued over infant's toxic milk death.
The family of a baby whose death has been blamed on toxic milk filed suit against one of China's largest dairies Monday, while another dairy ensnared in the scandal said it was a victim of unscrupulous subcontractors.
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Groups question constitutionality of Jpepa.
A broad coalition of environmental and other NGOs has questioned the constitutionality of the recently-ratified Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement and asked the Philippines Supreme Court to stop its implementation.
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First salmon caught in Basel in 50 years.
A Swiss fisher reeled in a surprise on Sunday. The Swiss environment ministry confirmed Wednesday that the hobby fisher had caught the first salmon seen in Basel for half a century.
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Dairy giants issue first public apology for scandal.
Top managers of the country's three leading dairy companies - Mengniu, Yili and Bright Dairy - issued their first public apology Sunday for their companies' involvement in the ongoing contaminated milk scandal.
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Immersion of "Durga Puja" idols raises environmentalists' hackles.
With the immersion of the idols of deities on the last day of ?Durga Puja?, environmentalists are worried that the river waters will take yet another drubbing.
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Anti-1080 crusaders to show film.
Clyde and Steve Graf are to speak in Caterton on Wednesday and will highlight what they say is damning new evidence of incidental harm from aerial drops of 1080 poison in Fiordland.
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Maple Leaf mulls preservative that limits listeria growth.
Health Canada has approved the use of a combination of sodium diacetate and sodium lactate to curb the growth of listeria monocytogenes in meat, poultry, and fish.
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Evacuees return from toxic spill in W. Penna.
Hundreds of people evacuated after a chemical leak returned home yesterday as investigators tried to determine what caused corrosive material to overflow from an industrial plant tank and form a mile-long cloud over this Western Pennsylvania town.
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Crematory vote expected Monday night .
The crematory debate in Snellville has snowballed into one of the most controversial issues in city history, rankling residents, dividing the city council and trying the patience of a business owner who believes his operation is being unfairly targeted.
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Emergency cleanup at Delray plant nearly done.
When investigators from state and federal agencies walked through the 3-acre Chemserve plant site on Copland Street in Detroit's Delray neighborhood a year ago, they were taken aback.
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The city of Oregon can drill wells without EPA approval.
The city of Oregon has informed the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency that it is not violating laws that prohibit drilling wells in the right-of-way to monitor off-site contamination near Envirosafe Services of Ohio, Inc.
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