Greenlist(tm) Bulletin 02/11/05
Greenlist(tm) Bulletin 02/11/05
This is the weekly bulletin of the TURI Library, reporting a selection of recently published titles we have acquired. Our pledge is to keep the bulletin relevant to your work and brief -- no more than 10 titles. (usually)
Titles here, abstracts below them:- Pure Ingenuity: Innovation Employs Electron Beams for Product Sterilization, January 2005
- Prenatal DDT Exposure in Relation to Anthropometric and Pubertal Measures in Adolescent Males, December 2004
- EPA Denies Dow a Phaseout Extension for Dursban, January 2005
- Bayer Improves Green Tire Technology, January 2005
- Prioritization Addressed by REACH, January 2005
- The Proliferation of LEED, December 2004
- Perchlorate Ingestion Questioned, January 2005
- The U.S. Solvent Cleaning Industry and the Transition to Non Ozone Depleting Substances, 2004
- Innovating for Better Environmental Results: A Strategy to Guide the Next Generation of Innovation at EPA, 2004
- WHO Says Formaldehyde is Human Carcinogen, June 2004
1. TITLE Pure Ingenuity: Innovation Employs Electron Beams for Product Sterilization
AUTHOR Hendrickson, Dyke
SOURCE Mass High Tech, January 24-30, 2005, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 1, 14
ABSTRACT Advanced Electron Beams Inc., a Wilmington, MA company, is using a traditional technology, electron beams, to emerge as a leader in the field of product sterilization.
2. TITLE Prenatal DDT Exposure in Relation to Anthropometric and Pubertal Measures in Adolescent Males
AUTHOR Gladen, Beth C., et. al.
SOURCE Environmental Health Perspectives, December 2004, vol. 112, no. 17, pp. 1761-1767
ABSTRACT DDT, a pesticide once used widely in agriculture and now limited to public health use, remains a controversial chemical because of a combination of benefits and risks. DDT or its breakdown products are ubiquitous in the environment and in humans. Compounds in the DDT family have endocrine actions and have been associated with reproductive toxicity. A previous study reported associations between prenatal exposure and increased height and weight in adolescent boys. We examined a group with higher exposures to see whether similar associations would occur. Our study group was 304 males born in Philadelphia in the early 1960s who had participated in a previous study. Anthropometric and pubertal measures from one to six visits during their adolescent
years were available, as were stored material serum samples from pregnancy. We measured p,p'-DDE, p.p'-DDT and o,p'-DDT in the maternal serum. Outcomes examined in the boys were height, ratio of sitting height to height, body mass index, triceps skinfold thickness, ratio of subscapular to the sum of triceps and subscapular skinfold thickness, ratio of subscapular to the sum of triceps and subscapular skinfold thicknesses, skeletal age, serum testosterone, and serum dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate. No associations between prenatal exposure to any of the DDT compounds and any outcome measure were seen.
3. TITLE EPA Denies Dow a Phaseout Extension for Dursban
AUTHOR Sissell, Kara
SOURCE Chemical Week, January 5/12, 2005, vol. 167, no. 1, p. 11
ABSTRACT EPA has denied Dow Chemical's request for a deadline extension for the phaseout of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, which can be used in certain applications through year end. At issue is whether Dow would be allowed to extend its production of chlorpyrifos, sold as Dursban, for use in termite prevention pretreatment for building materials used in new homes. EPA imposed restrictions on many uses of Dursban in 2000 because it has been shown to cause nerve and developmental problems in laboratory animals.
4. TITLE Bayer Improves Green Tire Technology
AUTHOR Wood, Andrew
SOURCE Chemical Week, January 5/12, 2005, vol. 167, no. 1, p. 31
ABSTRACT Bayer says it has developed a novel process for hydrophobing and coupling silica that makes silica-filled "green" tires much easier to manufacture. The process has fewer steps than existing green tire manufacturing, and requires no specialized machinery, Bayer says. It provides "significant cost advantages, greatly simplified processing, and outstanding performance when used in fuel-efficient passenger car tires," the company says.
5. TITLE Prioritization Addressed by REACH
SOURCE Chemical Market Reporter, January 10, 2005, volume 267, number 2, pp. 5, 25
ABSTRACT The European Union (EU) environment ministers have stressed the importance of prioritization in the assessment of chemicals under the proposed REACH system. The council of environment ministers of the 25 EU countries emphasized the need to examine substances of high concern at an early stage of the registration process of the REACH system, under which 30,000 chemicals are due to be registered, evaluated and authorized. The ministers want to investigate "workable, cost-effective solutions" for priority setting while "not overburdening the registration phase" and providing "certainty" hor industry.
6. TITLE The Proliferation of LEED
AUTHOR Malin, Nadav
SOURCE Environmental Building News, Vol. 13, No. 12, December, 2004, pp. 1, 3
ABSTRACT In November 2004, the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED program mushroomed from one official rating system to three, and the Canada Green Building Council launched its own version as well. If the market response to LEED for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB) and LEED for Commercial Interiors (LEED-CI) is anything like what we've seen with the original LEED Rating System (now called LEED for New Construction and Major Renovations, or LEED-NC), the Council's period of rapid growth is far from over.
7. TITLE Perchlorate Ingestion Questioned
AUTHOR Hess, Glenn
SOURCE Chemical Market Reporter, January 17, 2005, volume 267, number 3, pp. 1, 27
ABSTRACT A long-awaited report on the health effects of perchlorate by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) concludes that daily ingestion of up to 0.0007 milligrams per kilogram of body weight can occur without adversely affecting the health of even the most sensitive populations. That amount is more than 20 times the "reference dose" proposed by the EPA in its most recent draft risk assessment.
8. TITLE The U.S. Solvent Cleaning Industry and the Transition to NonOzone Depleting Substances
'CORP AU OR PUBLISHER' ICF Consulting; US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)
DATE 2004
ABSTRACT Industrial cleaning in the United States has changed dramatically over the past 15 to 20 years. Following the discovery that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other substances such as methyl chloroform were depleting the stratospheric ozone layer that shields the Earth from the Sun's harmful ultraviolet light, a global effort to eliminate the use of such substances was launched. The U.S. ratification of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer in 1988 and the subsequent Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 had major repercussions on how end-users cleaned metal parts, defluxed wiring assemblies on printed circuit boards, and removed contaminants from high value precision mechanical parts and assemblies. This report serves as an objective assessment of progress toward using alternatives to ozone depleting substances (ODS). For the purposes of this report, the solvent cleaning industry is divided into four end-users: 1) Electronics Cleaning; 2) Metal Cleaning; 3) Precision Cleaning; and 4) Aerosol Solvent Cleaning.
9. TITLE Innovating for Better Environmental Results: A Strategy to Guide the Next Generation of Innovation at EPA
'CORP AU OR PUBLISHER' U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)
DATE 2004
ABSTRACT As America works to meet the next generation of environmental challenges, innovative new technologies and techniques will be a key contributor to our success. Making America’s air cleaner, its water purer, and its land better protected will require the best, most creative, and most inventive efforts the public,
private, academic, and non-profit sectors can devise. Encouraging such innovation and ensuring that the best innovative ideas are widely shared is a role I believe the Environmental Protection Agency is well-positioned to perform. That is why, early last year, I directed EPA’s Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation to work with the Innovation Action Council to assess the Agency’s innovation activities and propose a long-term innovation strategy to guide the EPA in the years ahead. This report is the result of their efforts. It provides the EPA with a practical roadmap for encouraging innovative solutions to environmental challenges and for making sure those solutions are available to everyone who shares our common goal of protecting the environment and safeguarding public health. As you will see, this report also emphasizes the importance of developing clear, easily understandable benchmarks against which we can judge the success of our efforts. It is not just enough to measure process, we must also measure progress.
10. TITLE WHO Says Formaldehyde is Human Carcinogen
SOURCE Chemical & Engineering News, June 21, 2004, vol. 82, no. 25, p. 20
ABSTRACT The World Health Organization last week toughened its view of the toxicity of formaldehyde and issued a warning that it is "carcinogenic to humans."
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