Grand rounds: an outbreak of toxic hepatitis among industrial waste disposal workers.(Environmental Medicine)

From: Environmental Health Perspectives | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

CONTEXT: Industrial waste (which is composed of various toxic chemicals), changes to the disposal process, and addition of chemicals should all be monitored and controlled carefully in the industrial waste industry to reduce the health hazard to workers.

CASE PRESENTATION: Five workers in an industrial waste plant developed acute toxic hepatitis, one of whom died after 3 months due to fulminant hepatitis. In the plant, we detected several chemicals with hepatotoxic potential, including pyridine, dimethylformamide, dimethylacetamide, and methylenedianiline. The workers had been ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

HANDLING OF INDUSTRIAL WASTE IMPROVED
; ...countries frequently dispose their industrial waste. Aware that Indonesia is a developing...adequate attention to the problem of industrial waste. Nowadays, the problem of industrial waste which is categorized as B3 (toxic...
EPA Releases Best Practices Guide on Industrial Waste
; ...release of a comprehensive voluntary industrial waste management guide that identifies best...estimated 7.6 billion tons of this industrial waste. "I challenge each state to work with...manage these wastes. The Guide for Industrial Waste Management is a practical resource...
Reusing Industrial Waste: Firms Take the Initiative.
; ...Regulations requiring companies to recycle industrial waste are still at least a few years away...for the 60,000 plants that generate industrial waste. The recommendations will cover everything...for siting, designing and closing industrial waste landfills as well as steps to cut...
Residents fight industrial waste plans
; ...and then re-open for the disposal of industrial waste. Carlin Howe Landfill on Redcar Road...operators want to expand to include industrial waste. Officials have applied to Redcar...operator plans to re-open Carlin Howe for industrial waste. But the proposal has been condemned...
New project to create management system for industrial waste.
; ...system for liquid and semi-liquid industrial waste. During the launch, Minister of Environment...release of liquid and semi-liquid industrial waste. The project is a pioneering venture...seeks to control illegal trading of industrial waste, such as used batteries and tyres...
French industrial waste charter?
; ...charter which would embody France's industrial waste policies, and act as a guide for politicians...proposes integrated research into industrial waste treatment. Greater and more accurate...order to deal with the problem of industrial waste. Brice Lalonde, the Minister of the...
Book on industrial waste treatment published. (News: for more news items go to ... www.pfonline.com/news).(Brief Article)
; ...engineering text and reference book on industrial waste treatment has been written by Frank...chemistry and physics fundamentals of industrial waste treatment; information on laws and regulations; and a detailed discussion of industrial waste management, stormwater management...
Taiwan's industrial waste regulation proposals.(Brief Article)
; ...streamline regulations concerning industrial waste transport and treatment firms. In...current restrictions so that, in future, industrial waste collection and treatment firms will...geographical areas. Additionally, industrial waste collection and treatment firms required...
NSW: Review of legal loophole on industrial waste
; 00-00-0000 NSW: Review of legal loophole on industrial waste SYDNEY, May 25 AAP - The NSW government...that allow companies to dispose of industrial waste as fertiliser. The review will be...using a legal loophole to dispose of industrial waste by recycling it into agriculture and...
RP industrial waste exchange eyed.(Business News)
; Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA An industrial waste exchange, patterned after those in...from landfills increasing amount of industrial waste. Eco-Index was only a pilot program...government report. The concept of industrial waste exchange started during World War...