Enough pressure from the anxious and politicians create another scare.
Pesticides are essential to food and feed production. Dose makes the poison, dammit.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/02/05/ottawa_agrees_to_review_23_pesticides_after_pressure_from_environmental_group.print.html
Category: Chemophobia
Parabens for Chemophobes
Another time that the chemo anxiety seems to never quit.
Parabens are like BPA, safe for decades, tested and found safe, but the scaremongers keep popping up.
http://acsh.org/2014/02/behind-times-perpetuate-one-ridiculous-chemical-scares-youll-ever-see-parabens/
Mercury Scare
Repeat after me–dose makes the poison.
Continue reading Mercury Scare
Damn the Chemophobes
Here we go again. Parabens are the bogeyman. These people need to take a nap.
http://acsh.org/2014/02/behind-times-perpetuate-one-ridiculous-chemical-scares-youll-ever-see-parabens/
Buzzards in the West Virginny Skies
I predicted the lawsuits about a spill of non toxic 4-methylcyclohexane methanol yesterday, and
today I hear of a wave of lawsuits.
Continue reading Buzzards in the West Virginny Skies
4-Methylcyclohexane methanol–Gotta be Bad
Licorice smelling and tasting alcohol used as a foaming agent for processing coal and making it fit for transport, got into the water supply from a spill that went into the Elk River, running Northeast of Charleston, West Virginny. Coal Country for sure.
Much hand wringing–but no risk apparent.
Continue reading 4-Methylcyclohexane methanol–Gotta be Bad
Computer Plant Chemicals may cause Cancer
Read this and consider the rash of chemophobe anxiety attacks that are coming.
The study didn’t find cancer patterns, but the cleaning chemicals used “cause cancer.”
And the Key–IBM has a deep pocket.
http://www.wbng.com/news/local/Health-Expert-239321531.html
You know what cancer causing and carcinogenic mean–rats and mice bred to have tumors, then exposed to just less than lethal levels of the target chemical, had increased rates of tumors. That’s the usual EPA “cancer” and “carcinogen” research.
This is going to make some lawyers some money, somewhere, now IBM employees will suffer fear, maybe even pre, post or anticipated traumatic stress disorder or panic attacks? And other tech companies use the same chemicals? Shaaaazaaam or is it Ka ching.
Butterworth Talks Chemoriskophobia
This essay is about surveys of professionals involved in assessing chemical/toxicological risks.
Very enlightening and more sensible than what we see in the political forums and the media. These professionals are properly concerned about the political “consensus” and the fanatic influence, and would prefer more science, less hysteria.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorbutterworth/2013/12/19/politics-environmentalism-beating-out-science-in-regulating-risk-say-experts/print/