Is the Air You Breathe Worth Dying For?
What
makes people sick?
List
Of Cancer-Causing Agents Grows
Among US. residents, 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women will develop cancer at some
point in their lifetimes. Research shows that environmental factors trigger
diseases like cancer, especially when someone has a family history,” said Kenneth
Olden, Ph.D., director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
and the National Toxicology Program, which prepared the report for HHS.
The Report on Carcinogens, Eleventh Edition, referred to as the “RoC,” lists
cancer-causing agents in two categories — “known to be human carcinogens” and
“reasonably anticipated to be human carcinogens.” The report now contains 58
“known” and 188 “reasonably anticipated” listings. Federal law requires the Secretary of the Department of Health and
Human Services to publish the report every two years.
News FEB 4, 2005 A4M
Six new substances have been added to the “known” category: You may check the
report for details.
Eleven new substances have been added to the “reasonably anticipated” category:
You may check the report for full details but let me highlight 2 of them.
Naphthalene is
used as an intermediate in the synthesis of many industrial
chemicals, and has been used as an ingredient in some
moth repellants and toilet bowl deodorants. Naphthalene is listed in the report as “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen,”
based on inhalation studies in animals which showed
it causes rare nasal tumors in rats and benign lung
tumors in female mice.
Nitrobenzene is
a chemical used mainly in the production of other industrial
chemicals. It is listed as “reasonably anticipated
to be a human carcinogen” because inhalation studies
of this compound produced cancer in experimental animals.
The
Report on Carcinogens, Eleventh Edition, is prepared by the National
Toxicology Program, an interagency group coordinated by the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services. The full report is available at the
NTP website http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov.
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The chemical formula for Naphthalene is
C10 H8.
The
chemical formula for Nitrobenzene is C6 H5 NO2.
Based
on the formulas provided as examples on another sheet it is easy to
see how Ozone (O3 – O4 – O6 , etc ) would oxidize this into harmless
products.
What
would you like to breathe? Carcinogenic Chemicals or clean air?
Information
source from: http://www.worldhealth.net/p/243,6512.html
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