Food in the U.S. Is Still Tainted with Chemicals That Were Banned Decades Ago Thirty-eight years after DDT was banned, Americans still consume trace amounts of the infamous insecticide every day, along with more than 20 other banned chemicals. In a photograph from a 1947 newspaper advertisement, a smiling mother leans over her baby’s crib. [...]
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Dirty Laundry: Should I give up dry cleaning?
Posted by Michael Casals on March 10th, 2010
The problem with traditional dry cleaning is a liquid solvent called “perc,” short for perchloroethylene. (Despite the moniker, dry cleaning isn’t really dry; it just doesn’t involve water.) Perc is what dissolves the gunk off of your clothes. It’s highly effective without being labor-intensive and—unlike the cleaning chemicals of old—it’s not likely to burst into [...]
Trihalomethanes Contaminants in Drinking Water
Posted by Michael Casals on March 3rd, 2010
All drinking water including bottled water contains a certain amount of chemicals. At this point it is almost unavoidable. There are currently standards for 90 of these contaminants although there could be many more than that. One of these contaminants is called trihalomethanes, or THM’s they are a chemical compound comprised of four chemicals that [...]
