INTRODUCTION In May, 1994, forty-two families in Sutter Creek, California learned their homes, which had been constructed between 1975 and 1985, were built on land contaminated with mine tailings containing arsenic. In California’s Gold Country background levels of arsenic in soil are approximately 22 parts per million [ppm]. But on these properties, arsenic levels were […]
Toxic Chemical Exposure & Birth Defects
Environmental Pollution and Property Damage: Overcoming the Defenses of Consent and Custom and Practice – Anatomy of a $2,000,000 Property Damage Settlement, Part II
INTRODUCTION In May, 1994, forty-two families in Sutter Creek, California learned their homes, which had been constructed between 1975 and 1985, were built on land contaminated with mine tailings containing arsenic. In California’s Gold Country background levels of arsenic in soil are approximately 22 parts per million [ppm]. But on these properties, arsenic levels were […]
Methyl Ethyl Ketone, Fetal Neurotoxicity, Microcephaly and Mental Retardation: In Utero Brain Damage Caused by Toxic Solvent Exposure
Introduction Congenital microcephaly, abnormally small head circumference, is caused by environmental or genetic factors. Genetic causes of microcephaly do their damage through Mendelian patterns of inheritance of a defective or damaged gene or chromosome. Many cases of microcephaly are denominated “idiopathic” because the likely causal factor(s) are not known. Nonetheless the vast majority of the […]
Fetal Brain Damage, Developmental Delays and Intellectual Impairment as a Result of Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyl [PCB] in Pregnancy
Children exposed in utero to low levels of polychlorinated biphenyls [PCBs] have suffered long-term brain damage, decreased learning skills, and low I.Q. scores according to a study of 212 eleven year olds whose mothers had elevated concentrations of PCBs as a result of eating Lake Michigan fish contaminated with the chemical. These mothers at birth […]
Apple Bans Two Hazardous Chemicals from iPhone and iPad Production
Thanks to labor-watch groups and activists, Apple is finally banning the use of two hazardous chemicals from the final production stages of iPhones and iPads. After an investigation into 22 factories, Apple has decided to ban the use of benzene and n-hexane during the final assembly stages of their popular electronic devices. It’s important to […]
