An 18-year-old San Jose man found unconscious at home after he was contaminated with a toxic chemical died Friday at Valley Medical Center.
George Herrera was pronounced dead at 4:55 p.m. at the hospital, the Santa Clara County medical examiner’s office said. The cause of death is unknown pending an autopsy
Herrera never regained consciousness after being admitted to the hospital.
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(NaturalNews) The Missouri Supreme Court has dismissed a class action lawsuit alleging that the Coca-Cola Company deceived consumers by not disclosing the artificial sweeteners used in Diet Coke products sold from the soda fountains of fast food and other restaurants.
The lawsuit was initiated by Missouri resident Diana Pennington after she discovered that the Diet Coke sold from soda fountains contained both aspartame and saccharin, in contrast Read the rest of this entry »
BEIJING (AFP) — Wal-Mart said Tuesday it had pulled a major brand of eggs from its stores in China, as concerns rose that an industrial chemical found in Chinese dairy products was in the nation’s wider food chain.
The announcement by the US retail giant came after authorities in Hong Kong said eggs from the same Chinese producer had been found to contain melamine, the chemical at the heart of a scandal in China over contaminated milk. Read the rest of this entry »
In a bizarre event that began when two patients believed to be contaminated with a toxic chemical arrived at Valley Medical Center on Thursday, the South Bay’s busiest emergency room shut down for five hours and a Cambrian Park neighborhood evacuated as officials determined the source of the chemical.
Thursday’s scenario began at 8:05 a.m. with a 911 call of a possible suicide at a Yucca Avenue home, near Foxworthy and Meridian avenues.
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The research, published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association by a team of British and American scientists, compared the health status of 1,455 men and women with the level of the chemical, also known as BPA, in their urine.
The researchers divided the subjects into four groups according to their BPA levels and found that those in the quartile with the highest concentrations were nearly three times more likely to have cardiovascular Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON – The first large study in humans of a chemical widely used in everyday plastics has found that people with higher levels of bisphenol A had higher rates of heart disease, diabetes and liver abnormalities, a finding that immediately became the focus of the increasingly heated debate over the safety of the chemical.
The research, published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association by a team of British and American scientists, Read the rest of this entry »
By Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff
A chemical explosion in a jewelry factory in Attleboro this morning has sent one person to the hospital, a fire official says.
The blast at about 9 a.m. at Stern-Leach on Pearl Street contaminated roughly a dozen people at the scene, according to an official at the Attleboro Fire Department. One person was taken to Rhode Island Hospital.
The blast involved cyanide and hydrogen peroxide, the fire official said. Stern-Leach Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials warned Thursday that tainted infant formula from China may be on sale at ethnic groceries in this country, even though it is not legally approved for importation.
The Food and Drug Administration urged U.S. consumers to avoid all infant formula from China, after several brands sold in that country came under suspicion of being contaminated with melamine, a chemical used in plastics. Officials said there Read the rest of this entry »
Omaha, NE - Action 3 News has learned a chemical leak from a tank inside the Nebraska Medical Center's ER has been contained. It happened just before 3:30 Friday morning. Around 30 people, including 12 patients had to be moved to another part of the building.
Hazmat crews were called to the scene and have since left. An internal Hazmat crew is now working to clean up the area. A few of the hospital staff are being checked out, Read the rest of this entry »
(NaturalNews) The FDA has been caught red-handed conspiring with the chemical industry to conclude that Bisphenol-A, the plastics chemical, is harmless to human health. As revealed by the Environmental Working Group (see below), the FDA based its evaluation of BPA on a report authored by the American Chemistry Council (ACC), a trade group that represents chemical companies and plastics manufacturers.
The FDA’s evaluation concluded that BPA was perfectly Read the rest of this entry »