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News & Articles By Rita Winters

12/18/2017 / By Rita Winters

A new health risk from imported candy: Lead poisoning

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has issued more alerts for lead, a toxic heavy metal found in candy, than for the other three sources of food-borne contamination – Salmonella, Escherichia coli, and Clostridium botulinum – combined. This followed a 2006 state law that mandated food testing, after an analysis of outcomes by researchers […]

12/02/2017 / By Rita Winters

Ethylenethiourea – toxicity, side effects, diseases and environmental impacts

Ethylenethiourea (ethylene thiourea) is an organosulfur chemical used in the rubber industry as an accelerator for vulcanizing polychloroprene (neoprene) and other rubber products. It is made from ethylenediamine and carbon disulfide in aqueous alcohol. This chemical is also an environmental degradation product, an impurity and metabolite of ethylenebisdithiocarbamate fungicides for agricultural crops. It takes the […]

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