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• Concrete
  ...title = Minerals commodity summary - cement - 2007 | publisher=US [[United States Geographic Service]]|date=2007-06-01|url=http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/ ...ust 2008}} More than {{convert|55000|mi|km}} of [[highway]]s in the United States are paved with this material. [[Reinforced concrete]], [[prestressed concre
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• Cement
  ...s to form a strong building material that is durable in the face of normal environmental effects. ...than ordinary Portland cements.<ref>{{cite web | author = SINTEF Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cement and Concrete, N-7465 Trondheim, Norway | title = Mecha
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• Trifluralin
  ...and H.B. Schiefer. 1997. Environmental fate of trifluralin. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 153: 65-90.</ref> ==Environmental Behavior==
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• Amitraz
  ...ice]] and other animal pests. The [[United States Environmental Protection Agency]] classifies amitraz as Class III - slightly toxic.
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• Hearing conservation program
  *'''Hearing Protectors:''' 29 CFR 1910.95(i) states that “employers shall make hearing protectors available to all employees * '''Record Keeping:''' 29 CFR 1910.95(m) states that employers “shall maintain an accurate record of all employee exposur
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• Carbonless copy paper
  == Health and environmental concerns == ...x River NRDA/PCB Releases|publisher=United States Environmental Protection Agency|url=http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/nar1515.htm|accessdate=2009-06-2
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• Dry cleaning
  ...n the same way modern tumble dryers exhausts. This not only contributed to environmental contamination, but also much potentially reusable perc was lost to the atmo ...ther volatile organic carbon substances.<ref>U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics. [http://www.epa.gov/chemfact/f
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• Indoor air quality
  ...is probably the most pervasive serious hazard for indoor air in the United States and Europe, probably responsible for tens of thousands of deaths from lung The U.S. Federal Government (www.osha.gov) and some States have set standards for acceptable levels of [[asbestos]] fibers in indoor a
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• Carbon monoxide poisoning
  ...|last=|first=|author=first draft prepared by Mr J. Raub.|authorlink=|title=Environmental Health Criteria 213 (Carbon Monoxide)|publisher=International Programme on ...last = | first = | author =Committee on Medical and Biological Effects of Environmental Pollutants | authorlink = | title = Carbon Monoxide | publisher = National
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• Cancer
  ...iving those cells new properties, such as hyperactive growth and division, protection against [[programmed cell death]], loss of respect for normal tissue bounda ...x |pmid=12028500}}</ref> Indeed, [[lung cancer]] death rates in the United States have mirrored [[tobacco smoking|smoking]] patterns, with increases in smoki
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• Diacetyl
  The United States [[National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health]] has suggested tha ...it against the manufacturers, the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency]] began an investigation into the chemical properties of microwave popcorn
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• Asbestos
  ...the Council of 27 March 2003 amending Council Directive 83/477/EEC on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to asbestos at work |publishe ...TO ASSESS ASBESTOS-RELATED RISK| publisher =U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | date = 2003| location = Washington DC| pages = 474 }}</ref>
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• Institute of Occupational Medicine
  ...re of scientific excellence in the fields of [[occupational health]] and [[environmental health]], [[occupational hygiene]] and [[occupational safety]]. Its mission ...nto the study from 25 [[collieries]] representative of conditions across [[United Kingdom|Britain]].
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• Implications of nanotechnology
  ...amut from the [[Nanomedicine|medical]], [[ethical]], [[mental]], legal and environmental applications, to fields such as engineering, biology, chemistry, computing, Risks include environmental, health, and safety issues if negative effects of nanoparticles are overloo
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• Examinetics
  ...e occupational health screening and data management services in the United States. The company was established in 2004 following the consolidation of a numb In the United States, health and safety issues at work are covered under a law called the [[Occu
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• Radiation dose reconstruction
  ...Review of the Dose Reconstruction Program of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency''. The National Academies Press, 2003, p. 28</ref> The basic principle of r ...ensus organizations such as the [[International Commission on Radiological Protection]]<ref name=DRVid />.
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• Hazard symbol
  ...y children mistook the trefoil for a non-threatening propeller. Hence, the Agency, along with the [[International Organization for Standardization]] has devi According to Charles Baldwin<ref name="waterloo"/>, an environmental-health engineer who contributed to its development: "We wanted something th
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• Occupational hygiene
  ...to the Anticipation, Recognition, Evaluation, Communication and Control of environmental stressors in, or arising from, the work place that may result in injury, il ..."[[Employment|Work]]", "[[Workplace]]" and "Place of Work" in general. ''Environmental Hygiene'' addresses similar issues to ''Occupational Hygiene'', but is like
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• SENSOR-Pesticides
  ...ding to some states, in conjunction with the [[US Environmental Protection Agency]] (US EPA). ...articles that highlight findings from the data and their implications for environmental and occupational pesticide issues. These issues include eradication of inv
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• Benzene
  ...ers.|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|volume=87|issue=1|pages=167–9|year=1990|pmid=2153285|pmc=53221 ...ir Pollutants From Mobile Sources |publisher=U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |pages=15853 |accessdate=2008-06-27 |date=2006-03-29}}</ref>
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