Across the country trains had derailed, including one carrying industrial chemicals that exploded into a toxic cloud.
The law would require chemical manufacturers to demonstrate the safety of industrial chemicals used in everyday household products.
PCBs, a group of environmentally persistent industrial chemicals that disrupt animals' hormone systems.
Weapons have to be destroyed, while industrial chemicals with military uses (few are entirely harmless) are now subject to inspection.
Germany's Hoechst said it may float its Celanese and Ticona units in an accelerated bid to get out of industrial chemicals.
Researchers at the CDC and elsewhere are presently conducting studies to determine at what level these industrial chemicals become dangerous to humans.
Some natural gas MLPs separate out liquids like propane and butane that compete against petroleum-based products like naphtha in the industrial chemicals market.
Sometimes contaminated with hormones and industrial chemicals, emergency rooms have routinely been inundated with parents and their newborns with nasty reactions to dangerous formula.
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Other suspicious chemical discoveries in Iraq since the beginning of the war have, after additional testing, turned out to be pesticides or other industrial chemicals.
The National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme (NICNAS) crunched data provided to them by the US CSPC, which had had prepared it for the CHAP analysis.
The floodwaters are now a toxic stew of raw sewage, household and industrial chemicals, and the rotting corpses of the people and pets who drowned as the waters rose.
DuPont is a diversified global chemical company, supplying agricultural products (such as seeds and pesticides), high-performance materials, automotive coatings, electronic materials and key industrial chemicals to industries and consumers world-wide.
China dairy producers ran into trouble in 2008 when baby formula tainted with industrial chemicals led to the death of a half dozen babies and the hospitalization of over 300, 000 infants with kidney ailments that year.
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At the college library one day, he read a journal article by the late Jay Bailey , a Caltech chemical engineer who was trying to use genetic engineering to fashion "designer" bacteria to produce drugs, agricultural products and industrial chemicals.
In recent years, problems have fouled acquaculture's reputation: pollution from waste runoff, high disease and parasite rates due to a high density of fish and the uptake of industrial chemicals harmful to humans have combined to make fish less healthy to eat.
"We are a business that grew out of South Africa's desperate need for liquid fuels and industrial chemicals, " says Pieter Cox, an engineer for 32 years with Sasol and since 1997 the CEO at the sumptuous headquarters in a leafy north Johannesburg suburb.
This week's sale of the industrial-chemicals business is partly to persuade investors that this strategy is still on track.
Quantities of sewage are poured into it daily, 95% of which is untreated, and it is also a depository for industrial effluents, chemicals from farm runoffs and arsenic and fluoride contamination.
Still on the block, some analysts say, are GE's appliance, lighting, industrial controls and water chemicals businesses.
Delhi draws three-quarters of its drinking water from the Yamuna river, into which the city dumps quantities of sewage, almost all of it untreated, to join a cocktail of farm chemicals and industrial effluents, including arsenic.
Hydraulic fracturing involves the injection of fluid consisting of approximately 99.5% water and sand (the rest consists of common industrial or even household chemicals or materials) through wells constructed with protective casing and cement, into producing shale formations.
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Dupont competes with other diversified industrial and chemical companies like Dow Chemicals , 3M Company and BASF.
The problem is that anyone who can produce modern drugs, vaccines and chemicals for agricultural and industrial use also can produce deadly viruses, toxins and nerve agents.
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Furthermore, oil-dependent governments, facing a population boom and realizing that they need to diversify their economy to create jobs and wealth, are subsidizing the industrial sector to manufacture plastics, chemicals and aluminum, all energy-intensive goods.
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Specifically HUN produces chemicals used in consumer and industrial products in industries such as aerospace, automotive and construction.
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To offset the construction slowdown, the group has diversified--with mixed results--into satellite communications, financial services, industrial and power projects and petroleum, chemicals and mining.
Industrial activity is predominantly in food processing, chemicals, petroleum refining, and electrical machinery.
Rather, it is a recognition of a practical reality: These chemicals are simply too widely used for civil-industrial purposes to be proscribed.
Platinum: As a primarily industrial metal, platinum plays the role of catalyst in the processing of petroleum and chemicals such as nitric acid, fertilizers and synthetic fibers.
Our traditional view of the food chain is that large companies manage it, industrial farms produce for it, food ingredient experts intervene with flavor enhancing and preservation chemicals, and fast food joints or supermarkets shift food to the public, who eat it, often to their detriment.
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