Industrial chemicals refer to substances that are produced or used in industries for various purposes. These chemicals are typically manufactured on a large scale and are used in processes such as manufacturing, agriculture, and scientific research. They can be found in products like plastics, cleaning agents, fertilizers, and pharmaceuticals.
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This is in contrast to other sectors such as health, transport and occupational health and safety that have established frameworks for managing the risks associated
with industrial chemicals.
Those works are not done with exposure to the elements, but instead are made from exposure to the
toxic industrial chemicals threatening nature's survival.
Clearly, in order to improve brain function, we must focus on
avoiding industrial chemicals, processed foods, birth and childhood spinal trauma and sedentary behavior.
During the 1970s health officials commonly stated that as much as 90 percent of cancer was environmental in origin, with pesticides and
industrial chemicals responsible for half the incidence.
There's also potential for capturing CO2 emissions and recycling them into high -
value industrial chemicals, though purchasing offsets through international carbon markets will be the least - cost option.
This company continues to operate as an income trust, building on its strong niche in the removal and conversion
of industrial chemicals.
We have over a hundred thousand
industrial chemicals in our immediate environment that we are being exposed to daily.
Experts need to rapidly identify trace gases when detecting
toxic industrial chemicals, identifying disease indicators, or monitoring the proliferation of nuclear or chemical weapons.
Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center and Houston have discovered phthalates, and
other industrial chemicals in common foods purchased in the United States.
According to the Environmental Working Group, phthalates are a group of
industrial chemicals used to make plastics like polyvinyl chloride (PVC) more flexible or resilient.
The toughening of Chinese regulations stems originally from a series of health scandals in China involving Chinese companies cutting corners in their production, the worst of which was in 2008 when six babies died and 300,000 were seriously ill after drinking formula contaminated with the toxic
industrial chemical melamine.
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a widely used
industrial chemical found in many household items, including resins used to line metal storage containers, such as food cans.
Once in the water, plastic microbeads attract persistent organic pollutants like flame retardants and other
industrial chemicals linked to human health problems — even cancer.
Platinum is one of the costly metals used as catalysts in new technologies employed
for industrial chemical processes, renewable energy sources, pollution control and many other purposes.
Infrared saunas promote sweating that helps detoxify the body from heavy metals such as lead, mercury, arsenic, aluminum, cadmium and nickel — along with
industrial chemicals such as pesticides and herbicides.
DDT, formerly one of the most
common industrial chemicals, was banned in the United States three decades ago, in no small part due to the work of one woman: Rachel Carson.
New York's two U.S. senators are pushing for safety standards for perfluorinated compounds and other
unregulated industrial chemicals that have been found in public water systems.
Previous research shows that due to their weight and growing patterns children have a much higher risk than adults do
from industrial chemicals and heavy metals, and that chemicals can have lasting effects on children's brain development and learning.
But Cuomo came under fire for his administration's slow response to the crisis in Hoosick Falls and other Rensselaer County communities
where industrial chemicals have contaminated drinking water supplies.
Last month's talks to mitigate global warming may have flopped (Science, 3 November, p. 920), but this week brought some consolation to those concerned about the planet's environmental health: the first - ever global agreement to abolish a class of
dangerous industrial chemicals.
Phthalates, which are
industrial chemicals typically used to soften plastics, are concerning because they disrupt human hormones, including blocking the production of testosterone.
The Real Farmers of the Future Will Build Soils The most cutting edge forms of climate - friendly agriculture — organic, regenerative, local, biodynamic — don't produce greenhouse emissions the
way industrial chemical farming's toxic inputs do.
For example, levels of PCB's and other
industrial chemicals appear to be declining in studied polar bear populations, as in this new paper.
Clients in a broad range of industries trust us with their trade secrets work, including insurance brokerage and consulting firms, consumer products manufacturers, computer software developers, equipment manufacturers and specialty
industrial chemicals manufacturers.
Company Cornerstones In addition to food ingredients, the company
distributes industrial chemicals and phenolic resins to customers in the cleaning and personal care product industries as well as the chemical manufacturing sector.
France's health authority has released an alarming report on the potentially toxic effects of a
controversial industrial chemical used in food packaging on pregnant women and their unborn children.
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