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W.Va. official: People are inhaling formaldehyde
Yahoo/ap ^ | JonathanMattise

Posted on 01/29/2014 1:12:53 PM PST by gooblah

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A state official said Wednesday that he "can guarantee" some West Virginians are breathing in traces of a carcinogen while showering after the chemical spill, but federal health guidelines say people need to breathe "a lot of it" to be a problem.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: chemicalspill; formaldehyde; westvirginia

1 posted on 01/29/2014 1:12:53 PM PST by gooblah
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To: gooblah

Should earn them a discount for the embalming charge from the undertaker...


2 posted on 01/29/2014 1:13:55 PM PST by Glenmore
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To: gooblah

Well, at least the evidence will be preserved.


3 posted on 01/29/2014 1:14:05 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: gooblah

Oh, they’re inhaling it by accident. Don’t prosecute ‘em.


4 posted on 01/29/2014 1:14:32 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: gooblah

So ...

Everyone in the DelMarVa is inhaling Barry Benghazi’s BO.


5 posted on 01/29/2014 1:17:46 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: gooblah

Does the embalmers union know about this intrusion from non-dues paying interlopers?


6 posted on 01/29/2014 1:22:08 PM PST by G Larry
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To: gooblah

Welcome to biology class, dissection lab.....

1966!

Next up, painting cars at Uncle Earl’s. (Earl Scheib for those who have no clue.)


7 posted on 01/29/2014 1:23:49 PM PST by prisoner6 (FREEDOM)
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To: prisoner6

Ban formaldehyde, paint thinner, spray paint, CO2, etc.


8 posted on 01/29/2014 1:31:26 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: prisoner6
My brother converted our garage to a paint room to paint his truck. Lots of plastic and no ventilation. Lol. He survived.

There was yellow paint on the car in the next stall and on the floor.

He spilled the paint on the drive way. It was still there 20 years later. Lol.

9 posted on 01/29/2014 1:33:31 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: prisoner6

LOL on Earl Scheib.
In the old days you could get away with inhaling a lot of paint.
These new 2 and 3 part paints are a whole ‘nother deal.
They go in but don’t come out.


10 posted on 01/29/2014 1:38:33 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: gooblah

Maybe it will kill me, but think how long I’ll keep.


11 posted on 01/29/2014 1:48:21 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: gooblah

This sounds like the recipe for the zombie apocalypse.


12 posted on 01/29/2014 1:50:51 PM PST by SpinnerWebb (IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
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To: gooblah

What are they doing? Sheeting their homes with osb?


13 posted on 01/29/2014 2:01:05 PM PST by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: gooblah

people need to breathe “a lot of it” to be a problem.

Haha, if it was put out that inhaling large amounts
got you high, people would be overdosing on the stuff.


14 posted on 01/29/2014 3:46:15 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: gooblah

Say WHAT???

I thought it was Methanol

http://www.toledoblade.com/Nation/2014/01/14/More-in-West-Virginia-cleared-to-use-water-after-spill.html

“Complaints came in to West Virginia American Water about the odor and officials discovered the source was the chemical 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, which spilled out of a 40,000-gallon tank.”


15 posted on 01/29/2014 6:01:11 PM PST by logi_cal869
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To: gooblah

“W.Va. official: People are inhaling formaldehyde”

And here I thought this meant that District 12
had come up with an alternative to sniffing glue.


16 posted on 01/29/2014 7:25:08 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: gooblah
In 2011, the National Toxicology Program, an interagency program of the Department of Health and Human Services, named formaldehyde as a known human carcinogen in its 12th Report on Carcinogens Formaldehyde and Cancer Risk The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) raport from 2012 http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol100F/mono100F-29.pdf 5. Evaluation There is sufficient evidence in humans for the carcinogenicity of formaldehyde. Formaldehyde causes cancer of the nasopharynx and leukaemia. Also, a positive association has been observed between exposure to formaldehyde and sinonasal cancer. There is sufficient evidence in experimental animals for the carcinogenicity of formaldehyde.
17 posted on 10/03/2016 7:18:30 PM PDT by Marek Darek (formaldehyde)
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To: Marek Darek

“In 2011, the National Toxicology Program, an interagency program of the Department of Health and Human Services, named formaldehyde as a known human carcinogen in its 12th Report on Carcinogens Formaldehyde and Cancer Risk The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) raport from 2012 http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol100F/mono100F-29.pdf 5. Evaluation There is sufficient evidence in humans for the carcinogenicity of formaldehyde. Formaldehyde causes cancer of the nasopharynx and leukaemia. Also, a positive association has been observed between exposure to formaldehyde and sinonasal cancer. There is sufficient evidence in experimental animals for the carcinogenicity


I have lived for 84 years virtually ignoring stuff like this.

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18 posted on 10/03/2016 7:25:01 PM PDT by Mears
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