Is working in plastics safe?
An explosion at a plastics plant outside Boston on Sunday made me wonder again about the safety of the plastics industry. Historically, it was rife with hazards: fires were so common in early celluloid...
View ArticleAre phthalates safe?
The Huffington Post has a piece today by Jon Entine who argues there’s no scientific basis for continuing concerns about the health effects of phthalates, a family of chemicals that are ubiquitous in...
View ArticleThe Ongoing BPA Battle
The plastics industry has been touting a recent study by German researchers that concluded that the chemical bisphenol A is safe. Written by an advisory committee to the German Society of Toxicology,...
View ArticleWhose Wish List Counts?
One of the chief defenders of the plastics/chemicals industry is the Washington DC law firm of Keller and Heckman. Founding partner Jerome Heckman has represented plastics for decades going back to...
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