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At the base of this controversy is the battle over the risk versus hazard approach to chemical safety. Hazard is the inherent danger of a chemical. Risk is the combination of how dangerous a chemical is and how high your potential exposure is. For example, we’ve learned that pure mercury is incredibly toxic. Ingesting it can kill you, if not
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Il apparaît nécessaire de revoir les fondements de la réglementation concernant ces substances. Plutôt que de rechercher une valeur seuil, comme cela est prévu dans le cadre de l’ancien paradigme selon lequel « c’est la dose qui fait le poison », il est préférable, dans le cadre du nouveau paradigme des perturbateurs endocriniens, de limiter au
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The worst offenders: chemicals that interfere with our body’s natural hormones. These endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are playing havoc with the building blocks of sexual and reproductive development. They’re everywhere in our modern world—and they’re inside our bodies, which is problematic on many levels.
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In 2014, according to a former DOE official, a federal contractor in Los Alamos, having been told to pack the barrels with “inorganic kitty litter,” had scribbled down “an organic kitty litter.” The barrel with organic kitty litter in it had burst and spread waste inside the cavern. The site was closed for three years, significantly backing up
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