Word: toxication
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying to raise the agency's reputation, and employee morale, from the ashes. "Ruck," as his friends call him, is a tall, witty lawyer with broad government experience and a reputation for integrity and administrative astuteness. He is expected to step up enforcement against corporate polluters, clean up toxic-waste dumps, beef up the agency's management and budget, and repair its shattered relationship with Congress. Ruckelshaus was the nearly unanimous choice of top White House officials. Said one Reagan aide: "He more than anybody can pour cold water on the flames...
Charges fly that Waste Management mishandled toxic garbage...
...tried to take advantage of the rising public concern over hazardous wastes. Lawmakers introduced three bills designed to tighten federal control of the poisons and close the loopholes detailed in an alarming new congressional report. The EPA weighed in with its own announcement tightening controls on dioxin and other toxic substances. Compiled during three years by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, the new study warns that 255 million to 275 million tons of chemical poisons are being dumped in the U.S. every year, a ton for every person. It estimates that it will cost from $10 billion...
...more than 2,000 women conducted in the U.S. and six foreign countries during the past four years report that the sponge drew few complaints from users. Says Dr. Richard Soderstrom, a partner in the Mason Clinic in Seattle who is also a member of the FDA panel on toxic shock: "There are no systemic side effects, and no risk of infection...
Testing specifically addressed the risk of toxic shock, since some research indicates that barrier devices like the diaphragm may encourage the development of the bacteria believed to cause the deadly illness; Soderstrom reports that the spermicide in the sponge seems to kill the bacteria. Nevertheless, as an added safeguard, the FDA will require a label advising women to remove the sponge within 24 hours to reduce that risk. This is a bonus for V.L.I. Initially the company planned to advertise Today as a 48-hour protection. Before it even hits the shelves, the potential market has doubled...