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WHO Regional Workshop on Chemical Safety
24 - 26th June 2013
The International Workshop to Strengthen Capacities for Sound Chemicals Management
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March 29, 2017 | Washington Post
Lead exposure linked to lower IQ in New Zealand.
Children with higher blood-lead levels were more likely in midlife to have lower IQs and live lower on the socioeconomic ladder, according to new research that offers one of the clearest looks yet at the potential long-term health impact of the potent neurotoxin.
March 29, 2017 | Radio New Zealand, New Zealand
Protect your kids from the long-lasting effects of childhood lead poisoning.
High lead levels in New Zealand cities during the 1970s and 1980s appear to have led to a loss of intelligence in adults, researchers say.
March 28, 2017 | Bloomberg News
Lead exposure alters the trajectory of children’s lives decades later, study finds.
Fifty former officials of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are firing back in a lengthy analysis that details, program by program, what amounts to a starvation diet for the EPA.
March 26, 2017 | Forbes
From bad air to birth defects, 5 hidden risks of slashing the EPA.
At least 80% of people diagnosed with mesothelioma have had confirmed exposure to asbestos. Others likely had exposure without realizing it since it can take decades before mesothelioma develops in the thin lining of the lungs, chest, abdomen and heart.
March 24, 2017 | Time Magazine
Asbestos-linked cancer remains a killer, just as asbestos remains commonly used.
Hazardous waste sites are scattered all across the country, from a Brooklyn canal once surrounded by chemical plants to a shuttered garbage incineration facility in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
March 22, 2017 | Reuters
E-waste: What happens to discarded televisions, computers and mobile phones?
Chinese companies are touting innovative - if not odd - products to consumers worried about the quality of the air that they breathe.
March 22, 2017 | Australia ABC News, Australia.
Lead poisoning afflicts neighborhoods across California.
Each year 40,000 tonnes of computers, tablets, televisions, printers, scanners, photocopiers, keyboards and mice are recycled through the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme (NTCRS).
March 22, 2017 | Reuters
Do you live near toxic waste? See 1,317 of the most polluted spots in the U.S.
Dozens of California communities have experienced recent rates of childhood lead poisoning that surpass those of Flint, Michigan, with one Fresno locale showing rates nearly three times higher, blood testing data obtained by Reuters shows.
March 19, 2017 | Harare Herald, Zimbabwe
Chinese firms offer pollution solutions with bottled air, hat filters.
Studies have revealed high traces of mercury metal in women's breast milk and fish in the gold mining areas of Kadoma and Chakari, exposing to risk the lives of children and people in surrounding communities.
March 14, 2017 | Times of London, United Kingdom
Roundup's active ingredient facing wave of legal challenges as alleged carcinogen.
Air pollution is a more immediate threat than climate change to the nation’s rare and endangered plants as high levels of nitrogen let certain species like nettles run wild, a study shows.
March 14, 2017 | St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri
Miners expose children to mercury.
Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s marquee product, Roundup, is coming under fire from hundreds of legal challenges across the U.S.
March 13, 2017 | Environmental Health News
Toxic air is bigger threat to plants than climate change.
Women exposed to certain chemicals in flooring and food packaging early in pregnancy are more likely to have decreased free testosterone—hormones vital for fetal growth, according to a new study.
March 10, 2017 | Reuters Health
Study links flame retardants to social behavior among young children.
When women smoke during pregnancy or have underweight babies their children have a greater risk of developing a type of retina damage, a Danish study suggests.
March 10, 2017 | Xinhua News Agency, China
Pregnant women’s sex hormones waver with phthalate exposure.
Researchers from Oregon State University (OSU) have found a significant relationship between social behaviors among young children and their exposure to widely used flame retardants.
March 9, 2017 | The Independent, United Kingdom
Smoking during pregnancy tied to eye damage in kids.
Greenpeace has accused members of a European Union expert committee of having conflicts of interest over whether a controversial weedkiller linked to cancer should be banned.
March 7, 2017 | Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
EU experts accused of conflict of interest over herbicide linked to cancer.
More than half the world's turtles and two-thirds of some bird species along Australia's east coast are being found to have ingested plastics, a leading CSIRO researcher said.
March 6, 2017 | USA Today
Exposure to pollution kills millions of children, WHO reports find.
Air pollution from China, India and several other Asian countries has wafted across the Pacific Ocean over the past 25 years, increasing levels of smog in the western U.S., a study finds.
March 6, 2017 | Washington Post
Plastic pollution toll on wildlife expected to rise to 95 per cent, G20 to hear.
Exposure to polluted environments is associated with more than one in four deaths among children younger than 5, according to two World Health Organization reports published Monday.
March 6, 2017 | Bloomberg BNA
New toxic controls to emerge in chemical sector’s March madness.
It is March madness in the chemicals arena as chemical makers, trade associations, lawyers and environmentalists scramble to shape how the EPA exercises new oversight over chemicals in commerce.
March 4, 2017 | CNN
Air pollution in Asia is wafting into the USA, increasing smog in West.
Researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are struggling to understand why younger populations continue to suffer asbestos-related medical issues despite efforts to reduce exposure from the toxic mineral.
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