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    <title>German prosecutors open probe into Tesla hazardous materials storage site</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-20T11:25:37+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[BERLIN, Dec 19 (Reuters) - German prosecutors are looking into allegations that Tesla has been operating a hazardous materials storage facility at its German site without the required authorization, local prosecutors said in a statement on Monday.

Prosecutors said the investigations are based on a criminal complaint filed by the environment office from the state of Brandenburg, where the U.S. carmaker's factory is located.

The investigation was first reported by broadcaster rbb24. Tesla did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. (Reporting by Victoria Waldersee and Rachel More Writing by Miranda Murray Editing by Thomas Escritt)

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<dc:subject>Germany industrial discovery environmental illegal</dc:subject>
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    <title>Information Is Experimental: A Qualitative Study of Students’ Chemical Information Literacy in a Problem-Based Beginner Laboratory</title>
    <dc:date>2022-09-20T10:29:07+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The focus in teaching and research is shifting from a traditional perspective of information literacy (IL) as a specific set of general, mostly text-based skills to a more comprehensive understanding of the complex aspects that constitute IL as an ongoing, context-specific process. However, there is a need for further insight into the social and contextual dimension of the information process. The inherent connection between problem-based learning (PBL) and IL holds great potential for a better understanding of students’ information experience. The aim of this study was to describe the contextual and social aspects of the information process students engage in during a PBL beginner’s lab and how this practical experience can be utilized for teaching. To this end, a wide range of qualitative data were collected over the course of three cohorts, including interviews, on-site audio recordings, and documents. Results suggest that students first evaluate the information they retrieve in terms of experimental safety, feasibility, and usefulness in planning the experimental procedure. Then, the experiment provides the crucial information about whether the previously acquired information was useful for solving the problem. The experiment is at the center of the student information process in a PBL lab. In this work, we discuss how to organize IL instruction from the student perspective and thus place the experiment at the center of IL instruction in a PBL lab. The results of this work contribute to an expanded understanding of IL that is useful for teaching and research in chemistry education.

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    <title>Cooling down: Chemical accident in Mannheim: Container is opened News</title>
    <dc:date>2022-08-31T10:35:40+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The container is to be opened this Wednesday, the contents of which caused a chemical accident in the port of Mannheim. "We are confident that we will be able to open the container in the course of tomorrow," said the Mayor of Mannheim, Christian Specht (CDU), on Tuesday. After more than a week, the container had cooled down so that it could be salvaged without any major reactions. Probes would have measured temperature and sulfur dioxide; a mini camera gave an impression of the situation in the container with almost 200 barrels. "All of this has enabled us to put our rescue concept into practice," said Specht. The maneuver, which is estimated to take two or three days, poses no danger to local residents.

Toxic fumes escaped from the container intended for Turkey with a bleach for textiles from the chemical company BASF on Tuesday last week. When fighting the fire and the gases, 17 people were slightly injured. After the rescue, the cause of the leak should be clarified.

Hydrosulfite is harmless if handled with care. However, it is classified as dangerous goods due to the risk of self-ignition with release of sulfur dioxide and sulfur. According to current knowledge, such a self-ignition has probably expired.
For salvage, each barrel is grasped with a telescopic arm and taken to the so-called sighting area, where specialists and investigators examine it. Once this is completed, the barrels are prepared for safe transport. Specht emphasized that the securing of the barrels was closely accompanied by a complete fire engine from the fire brigade. If chemical reactions occur, 10,000 liters of water are immediately available. In an emergency, a hood can be placed over a drum with chemicals that are still reactive. BASF will dispose of the barrels properly.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany transportation follow-up environmental sulfur_dioxide</dc:subject>
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    <title>Series of explosions hamper attempts to tackle Berlin forest fire</title>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Repeated explosions have prevented firefighters in Berlin from reaching a blaze in a forest to the south-west of the city that started at a police munitions site used to store second world war bombs.

The fire broke out in the early hours of Thursday morning after unexploded ordinance was accidentally detonated, according to the Berlin police.

The forest, in the well-to-do Grunewald district of the German capital, is popular with city dwellers, from swimmers to dog walkers.

The fire took hold in an area about 1.5 hectares (3.7 acres) in size. Approximately 100 firefighters are at the site, but were unable to get within 1,000 metres to the flames because of a series of explosions triggered by the heat.

The Berlin fire brigade said drought-like conditions had already made the forest susceptible to fire. An unprecedented number of forest fires elsewhere across Germany also means there is a shortage of fire-fighting helicopters to tackle the blaze.

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<dc:subject>Germany public explosion response bomb</dc:subject>
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    <title>A year after the explosions in Chempark Leverkusen the danger remains</title>
    <dc:date>2022-08-03T10:26:50+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One year ago, on July 27, 2021, one of the German chemical industry’s worst industrial accidents in recent history occurred at Chempark Leverkusen, north of Cologne. Seven workers died in the explosion of a tank farm for the disposal of chemical waste. The bodies of two workers killed in the accident were recovered immediately. Five were initially considered missing. The seventh fatality was only discovered several days later.

The bereaved families, the wives and children of the workers who lost their lives, have suffered greatly, exacerbated by the fact that the cause of the accident has still not been fully clarified and responsible parties at the company have not been held accountable.

One woman widowed in the previous year’s catastrophe told the Rheinische Post, “I feel a part of me has been amputated.” Her husband was working the early shift the day of the accident. The couple, with a young daughter, had been happy. They had bought a house and had dreams and plans. The disaster at the chemical park operator Correnta plunged them and other families into an abyss.

The question torments those affected as well as workers in the Chempark: how could the disaster have happened, and who is to blame? “I sincerely hope that those responsible are held accountable. Even if it doesn't bring our loved ones back,” the widowed mother told the Rheinische Post. But she is only put off by the company and told that it will still take time. Moreover, her lawyer, she says, had not yet been given access to relevant files.

Chempark, with sites in Leverkusen, Dormagen and Krefeld, is one of the largest chemical parks in Europe. At the end of 2016, around 48,000 people were employed by some 70 companies and service providers located there. These include the Bayer chemical group and many of its spinoffs. Currenta is the company operating the Chempark. The company belonged to Bayer as the Industry Services division until 2007. Bayer held a majority stake in Currenta until three years ago. Then the Australian financial investor Macquarie took over the majority of the company.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany industrial follow-up environmental waste</dc:subject>
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    <title>Nanosicherheit im Internet</title>
    <dc:date>2022-01-08T15:22:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.iwm-tuebingen.de/www/en/forschung/projekte/projekt.html?name=Nanosicherheit%20im%20Internet</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nanotechnology is considered one of the key technologies of the 21st century. A general statement on the effect of nanomaterials on people and the environment however is not yet possible. As part of the Leibniz Research Alliance „Nanosafety“, this project focuses on how laypersons and experts deal with conflicting scientific information on this topic and how they make decisions based on this information. We look at this research question with special regard to the internet as a source of knowledge.

Especially on the internet there is much (partially conflicting) information on the topic of nanosafety with different sources and varying quality. Using controlled as well as actual information environments, we are researching the handling of such fragile information by laypersons to see which strategies they use to resolve or explain possible contradictions. In another step we want to research how these strategies differ from strategies used by domain experts. To look into these processes we use methods such as eye-tracking and log file analysis.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany public discovery environmental nanotech</dc:subject>
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    <title>Fatal incident in German chemicals park</title>
    <dc:date>2021-12-13T11:42:51+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One worker has died and a further five seriously injured at ChemPark in Dormagen, Germany on 9 December. The park’s operator, Currenta, reported that the serious incident involved sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) being used for cleaning work.

Three employees of one of the park’s resident companies and three rescue workers were involved in the incident. One of the employees died from their injuries at the scene. The cause of the incident is unknown.

Currenta operates three ChemPark sites – in Dormagen, Krefeld-Uerdingen and Leverkusen. In July of this year, a solvent tank explosion and fire in a waste disposal area of the Leverkusen site killed seven people and injured a further 31.

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    <title>Germany: Three probed over deadly Leverkusen chemical blast</title>
    <dc:date>2021-10-20T11:59:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.dw.com/en/germany-three-probed-over-deadly-leverkusen-chemical-blast/a-59552741</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Prosecutors in Cologne, Germany announced on Tuesday that three people were being investigated in connection with the blast at a Leverkusen chemical plant.
The explosion at the Chempark industrial park on July 27 claimed the lives of seven people and injured 31 others.
What do we know about the investigation?
Authorities raided the homes of the three suspects and seized various devices and phones, along with documents. Police also searched offices belonging to Currenta, the firm which manages the chemical incineration plant where the blast occurred.
Prosecutors believe the three suspects were negligent and failed to properly handle and store chemical waste correctly and safely.
It's suspected that waste in a tank had begun to self-heat and the temperature rose beyond acceptable levels, which is then believed to have caused the series of catastrophic events that followed.
 
The blast claimed the lives of seven people, leading authorities to launch an initial investigation of negligent homicide
The explosion caused an enormous plume of smoke to rise above the city. Roads in the area were closed and firefighters battled for hours to extinguish the blaze.
At the time, there was serious concern that nearby residential areas were at risk of toxic contamination. Residents were urged to remain indoors and keep their windows and doors closed.
Public health officials conducted tests on soot and dust particles that fell on a residential area near the Chempark complex. 
Analysis revealed low pollution levels in the vicinity of where the exp]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany industrial follow-up environmental dust waste</dc:subject>
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    <title>Ig Nobel for chemists who analysed the smell of cinema audiences</title>
    <dc:date>2021-09-11T10:56:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/ig-nobel-for-chemists-who-analysed-the-smell-of-cinema-audiences/4014384.article</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The 2021 Ig Nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded to a group of researchers who analysed the odours emitted by cinema-goers to try to determine the levels of violence, sex, antisocial behaviour, drug use and bad language in the films they were watching.

The team behind the work were presented with their award by Nobel laureate Barry Sharpless in an online ceremony. Sharpless noted that ‘research on smell is undervalued and it’s very important’, and explained that his experience memorising the smell of more than 3000 stockroom chemicals was pivotal in his development as a chemist – something that would likely be advised against today.

The Ig Nobel prizes have been awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research every year since 1991, recognising scientific studies that make people ‘laugh, then make them think’.

In a video describing the science behind the chemistry prize, Jonathan Williams, who leads a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, explained that the team used instruments ‘normally used to investigate the chemistry going on over the Amazon rainforest’, to measure the concentrations of volatile organic compounds and carbon dioxide in cinemas. The aim was to see if they could develop a data-driven method to determine the age rating given to different films. They concluded that isoprene spikes in cinema air were correlated with how shocking a scene is and might help determine what age rating a film should receive. The winners each received an Ig Noble trophy that they had to assemble themselves, and a counterfeit 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollar bill.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany public discovery environmental other_chemical</dc:subject>
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    <title>Germany chemical waste explosion site death toll rises to six</title>
    <dc:date>2021-08-04T10:16:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2021/08/04/german-blast-death-toll-rises/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Another body has been found close to where an explosion occurred at a chemical waste incineration plant in the western German city of Leverkusen one week after the accident.

The victim has been identified, a spokeswoman for the public prosecutor’s office in Cologne said on Wednesday morning.

At least six people were killed by the powerful explosion and, according to the Cologne police, one person is still missing.

Cologne police are continuing to search the large Chempark site in Leverkusen.

The public prosecutor’s office is investigating unknown persons on suspicion of negligent homicide and negligent causing of an explosion.

The plant’s operator, Currenta, has said that the clean-up and recovery work is likely to take some time.

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    <title>Germany: No toxic fallout from Leverkusen chemical blast</title>
    <dc:date>2021-07-31T11:08:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.dw.com/en/germany-no-toxic-fallout-from-leverkusen-chemical-blast/a-58710508</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Preliminary investigations into substances released by an explosion at a chemical park in the western German city of Leverkusen indicate there is no risk to public health, officials said Friday.
Tests were conducted on soot and dust particles that fell on a residential area near the Chempark complex. Investigators found no traces of dioxins or similar toxins during initial tests, Ulrich Quass from the environmental agency in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia told a press briefing.
More detailed tests are being conducted and those results are expected next week.
 
Health officials are still cautioning residents not to consume home-grown produce or clean surfaces themselves
Health concerns allayed for now
The blast caused a giant plume of smoke to rise from the Chempark site, forcing emergency officials to shut down nearby motorways. At the time, residents were told to stay inside their homes and close all windows to minimize any potential harm.
Quass said particles that fell near the industrial complex — which hosts chemicals companies including Bayer and Lanxess — were found to contain no toxic substances: "Contrary to what was feared, no critical levels of dioxin and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been found," he told reporters.
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<dc:subject>Germany industrial follow-up environmental dust toxics</dc:subject>
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    <title>Leverkusen explosion: What exactly are dioxins, furans, PCBs and PAHs?</title>
    <dc:date>2021-07-30T10:21:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.dw.com/en/leverkusen-explosion-what-exactly-are-dioxins-furans-pcbs-and-pahs/a-58697815</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[During an explosion at a hazardous waste incineration plant at Chempark near Leverkusen in western Germany earlier this week, tanks containing chlorinated solvents burst into flames. The solvents, as well as greases, waste medicines, tar and other pollutants are usually incinerated at temperatures of around 1,100 degrees Celsius (2,012 degrees Fahrenheit).
Only when they are incinerated at temperatures of over 850 degrees Celsius can it be ensured that no dioxins, furans, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) or polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) remain in the combustion gases.
But if the incineration is not done properly, certain toxins, which belong to what are known as the dirty dozen of organic environmental pollutants, can remain or even be produced and then be dispersed into the atmosphere.
Thus, following this week's explosion, authorities have warned local residents not to touch any particles of soot or eat any fruit or vegetables from their gardens.
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    <title>Explosion in Leverkusen kills at least 2</title>
    <dc:date>2021-07-29T10:35:04+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Two employees were killed and 31 were injured after an explosion on Tuesday morning at Chempark’s chemical complex in Leverkusen, Germany. Five more people are missing. The complex is a major manufacturing hub for Bayer, Lanxess, and about 30 other companies.
The explosion occurred in a tank containing solvents in the complex’s waste-management center, which features a sewage system, a landfill, and an incinerator. Organic solvents are stored in containers at the center before being incinerated.
“The search for the missing is still going on at full speed. Unfortunately, the hope of finding them alive is dwindling,” Lars Friedrich, manager of the complex, says in a statement.
It is the worst chemical industry accident in Germany since 2016, when three maintenance workers died while working on pipelines at BASF’s site in Ludwigshafen.
Authorities and the park’s management are now investigating why the explosion occurred. “We are taking samples and are analyzing them together,” Friedrich says.
The explosion caused a fire that took 3 h to extinguish. It left Leverkusen under a pall of black smoke for much of Tuesday. Authorities closed roads and warned local residents to stay indoors because of the risk to health. “We have neighbors who have been terrified,” Friedrich says.
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<dc:subject>Germany industrial follow-up death solvent waste</dc:subject>
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    <title>Two dead in German chemical site blast</title>
    <dc:date>2021-07-28T10:13:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.begadistrictnews.com.au/story/7360083/two-dead-in-german-chemical-site-blast/?cs=9676</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An explosion in a German industrial park has killed at least two people and injured 31 others, setting off a fierce blaze that sent a pall of smoke over the western city of Leverkusen.

Several people were still missing on Tuesday.

Emergency services took three hours to extinguish the fire at the Chempark site, home to chemicals companies Bayer and Lanxess, that flared up after the blast at 9.40am, park operator Currenta said.
...
Police told residents living nearby to stay indoors and shut doors and windows in case there were toxic fumes.

Currenta said locals should also turn off air conditioning systems while it measured the air around the site for possible toxic gases.

Chempark's Friedrich said it was not clear what had caused the explosion, which led to a fire starting in a tank containing solvents.

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<dc:subject>Germany industrial explosion death solvent</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.thedrive.com/news/40820/production-at-teslas-berlin-factory-could-be-delayed-due-to-major-chemical-safety-hazards">
    <title>Production at Tesla's Berlin Factory Could Be Delayed Due to Major Chemical Safety Hazards</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-29T10:15:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.thedrive.com/news/40820/production-at-teslas-berlin-factory-could-be-delayed-due-to-major-chemical-safety-hazards</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Construction of Tesla's new "Giga Berlin" factory in northeastern Germany has been far from straightforward. Hurdles encountered by the electric car giant have included environmental protests, disposal of unexploded World War II ordnance, and even a possible incident of arson reported by Reuters. But at long last, the installation of machinery is nearly complete, and the independent safety inspection performed, and its conclusions are... Ugly.

The factory's premises in Grünheide were, according to Business Insider, recently visited by engineering firm Müller-BBM, which conducted a safety survey of the facility. In its findings, which Bild reports were recently submitted to the State Environment Agency, reportedly identified more than 40 sources of danger, stemming from issues with waste storage, risk of battery fires, to two potentially lethal problems with chemical storage.

First among these are concerns regarding a container of liquid n-butyl-acetate—a flammable solvent sometimes used in nail polish—used in Tesla's paint shop. If its container is damaged, inspectors concluded, the chemical could spread unimpeded and rapidly evaporate, reportedly in as little as 10 minutes. Should the resulting vapors reach a source of ignition, they could explode.

"Put simply, this is about the leakage of toxic substances that form a pool," explained plant safety expert Oliver Kalusch to Business Insider. "This evaporates relatively quickly and forms a gas cloud that can explode or lead to fires."]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany industrial discovery environmental batteries flammables waste</dc:subject>
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    <title>An Underground Parking Lot In Germany Bans Electrified Cars</title>
    <dc:date>2021-02-18T11:23:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://motorillustrated.com/an-underground-parking-lot-in-germany-bans-electrified-cars/70167/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Banning electrified cars from parking in underground or stacked lots could be an issue in major urban areas
Reasons cited include battery fires which are difficult to extinguish.

These fires can cause extensive damages to the surrounding structure.

This story raises a flag on an issue that is not entirely new however could grow once consumers begin buying EVs en masse. EV battery fires are not commonplace however they are far from unheard of. A fire broke out in a German underground lot last year which shined a light on a potential and serious problem.

In this case, as reported by inFranken, the car that burned was only an old Volkswagen Golf however had it been an electrified car, the aftermath of the fire could have been dire. With the repairs finally completed, the car park has reopened its doors but not all are welcomed:]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/azidoazide-azide/4012909.article">
    <title>Azidoazide azide</title>
    <dc:date>2020-12-14T11:37:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/azidoazide-azide/4012909.article</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In 2011, a group of researchers at the University of Munich in Germany announced that they were the first people to synthesise an unlikely molecule. The compound, which we’re going to call azidoazide azide – more on that later – is made up of two carbon atoms, no hydrogen, and a staggering fourteen nitrogen atoms, making it 89.1% nitrogen by weight and one of the most nitrogen-rich organic compounds ever made.

From that description alone, most chemists are going to start wincing. Looking at the chemical structure of azidoazide azide and examining the extreme inequality in charge distribution between the functional groups, it’s little wonder that it has subsequently become known as the most explosive chemical compound ever created. But, as you might expect, the story isn’t quite so simple.

To start with, the team from the University of Munich weren’t the first to ever synthesise azidoazide azide, although they were the first to correctly identify the structure. In truth, they were beaten to the punch by a solid five decades; a patent filed in 1961 records a technique for synthesising the ‘open form’ of C2N14, which claimed to have a fourth azide group in place of the tetrazole ring seen in the structure identified in 2011. However, further research in 2013 revealed that at room temperature, the fourth azide rapidly cyclises to form the tetrazole, meaning that the open form the patent describes doesn’t actually exist under the conditions they were using.
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    <title>Schlotheim: chemical reaction in the industrial area: firefighters use</title>
    <dc:date>2020-04-15T12:03:26+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The police announced on Tuesday. In a building was heated, therefore, due to a chemical reaction in a container with toxic Isozyanid and threatened to burst. By controlled Draining of the substance, the danger could be averted. People do not come to harm. The district fire inspector, Florian the war, estimated the damages to a sum in the low five-digit range. The New road and the road To the mill had in the meantime been locked by the police.

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    <title>Extensive Chemical Safety Fraud Uncovered at German Testing Laboratory</title>
    <dc:date>2020-02-18T12:01:25+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The case of an animal rights activist who infiltrated an independent German chemical testing laboratory has triggered the discovery of an apparently extensive chemical testing fraud.

LPT Hamburg, with around 175 employees, is one of the largest contract laboratories in Germany. It is a family owned private company. It prepares regulatory studies on behalf of the pharmaceutical and pesticide industries and has three locations: Mienenbüttel in Lower Saxony, Neugraben in Hamburg and Wankendorf in Schleswig-Holstein.

An initial case of fraud was reported in 2019 by the German magazine FAKT, which worked with the animal rights organisations Cruelty Free International and SOKO-Tierschutz to expose the findings of the undercover employee. The disturbing irregularities they discovered included the death and replacement of animals without this being reported to authorities.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany laboratory discovery environmental pesticides pharmaceutical</dc:subject>
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    <title>Reusable bamboo mugs leach dangerous amounts of formaldehyde and melamine</title>
    <dc:date>2019-12-20T11:46:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/reusable-bamboo-mugs-leach-dangerous-amounts-of-formaldehyde-and-melamine/4010950.article</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Coffee cups made from resin containing bamboo fibre – often sold as bamboo mugs – leach so much harmful formaldehyde and melamine into drinks that the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) has warned that they shouldn’t be used for hot liquids.

Bamboo mugs are made from a melamine resin reinforced with bamboo fibres. While they are reusable, they are often marketed as eco-friendly, even though they aren’t biodegradable. Melamine resin is a polymer and in itself not dangerous, but its monomers – 1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triamine and formaldehyde – are toxic and can cause cancer.

This summer, a German consumer group discovered worrying levels of harmful compounds being released by bamboo mugs. The BfR’s assessment found bamboo mugs release ‘alarming’ amounts of the toxins into 70°C drinks, up to 30 times the EU’s safe limit for adults and up to 120 times the limit for children. Although one-off exposure to large amounts of these chemicals isn’t necessarily problematic, the BfR estimates that regularly using a bamboo mug poses a serious health risk.

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<dc:subject>Germany public discovery environmental formaldehyde resin</dc:subject>
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    <title>Massive Crater In German Cornfield Likely Caused By Exploding WWII Bomb</title>
    <dc:date>2019-06-25T11:49:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wwii-bomb-explodes-german-cornfield_n_5d113840e4b07ae90da202be?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACKrUn8IeG9HCoJr0kDMKCySBinvH_N5OQIztxREZIWKCTSq5yJjQhHmEuWuPYWIdq3zamKogDKJ5Xm0YGQSbmTyeqXKaYrNFZlnY_0R9XZ_S_LbyWyWYZiOqf3_d_M80H16j8CqZRWvG_tGVgY8b5TWUbHCD50todXQd2UmKDf7</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A 33-foot wide, 13-foot deep crater that appeared in the middle of a German cornfield this weekend was likely caused by the detonation of a World War II-era bomb, police say.

Residents in the western town of Ahlbach described the sound of a strong explosion and earthquake-like shaking around 3:50 in the morning on Sunday, apparently when the ordnance finally exploded more than seven decades after it was dropped.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany public explosion response bomb</dc:subject>
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    <title>Bayer shareholders reproach management over Roundup woes</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-30T11:34:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://cen.acs.org/business/mergers-&amp;-acquisitions/Bayer-shareholders-reproach-management-over/97/web/2019/04</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A majority of Bayer shareholders do not like the way the company has been run over the past year. In a vote at the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting late last week, 55% refused to back management, largely because of Bayer’s problematic decision to buy Monsanto.

The acquisition came with a torrent of lawsuits over the role played by Monsanto’s Roundup brand glyphosate herbicide in incidents of nonHodgkin’s lymphoma and other illnesses among agriculture workers.

Indeed, only two months after the $63 billion acquisition closed in June, a US jury found Bayer responsible for a groundskeeper’s cancer. A second case also went against Bayer; the company is appealing both verdicts. And that’s just the beginning: roughly 13,400 plaintiffs are waiting in the wings.

Disgruntled shareholders feel Bayer did not properly price the financial and reputational risks of the coming litigation. Shareholder countermotions, filed ahead of the meeting, call the Monsanto acquisition “catastrophic,” a “disaster,” and “ill-fated.”

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<dc:subject>Germany public discovery environmental pesticides</dc:subject>
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    <title>Sarstedt: Boy after chemical explosion in coma</title>
    <dc:date>2017-10-13T11:25:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.turkeytelegraph.com/world/sarstedt-boy-after-chemical-explosion-in-coma-h10608.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On Wednesday evening, a 15-year-old pupil suffered severe injuries to right hand. He is now in a coma in a hospital in Hildesheim.

As police shared, boy was on road with three friends (13, 14 and 14 years) when accident happened. In his trouser pocket, chemicals had exploded, which youngsters had stolen from chemistry room of Albert Schweitzer School last weekend.

Because boy is not capable of interrogation, motives of ft are still unclear.

However, experts from state criminal office of Lower Saxony found parts of a self-built detonating agent and traces of chemicals that were used – substances that lead to an explosion after mixture under pressure!

However, police stressed that "re is currently no evidence of a planned damaging event to detriment of or persons or similar".

At present time, police assume that this is a deplorable accident. However, four students are identified for breaking into school and for violating Explosives Act.

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<dc:subject>Germany education explosion injury explosives illegal</dc:subject>
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    <title>Tattoo inks go more than skin deep</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-28T11:44:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hard evidence has emerged that nano-sized particles from tattoo inks travel from the skin where they’re embedded to a person’s lymph nodes, where they get stuck.
Tattoo inks contain a wide range of chemicals and heavy metals, including some that are potentially toxic. Because of concerns about this potential toxicity, last year, the Joint Research Centre, which provides advice to the European Commission, issued a report highlighting the need for funding into research on tattoo ink toxicity and how tattoo inks break down in the body.
Plenty of circumstantial evidence exists to show that tattoo pigments travel around the body, says Ines Schreiver, a researcher at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment in Berlin. “Physicians had seen that lymph tissue of tattooed people was colored,” she explains, but details about the pigments in the lymph nodes, which act as filters for the human body and are an important part of the immune system, are scarce.
With skin and lymph tissue samples from four deceased tattooed individuals, as well as two nontattooed individuals, in hand, Schreiver and her colleagues set out to investigate. Using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI/TOFMS), the team found the same organic pigments, including pthalocyanines and azo compounds, in the skin and lymph samples from the tattooed individuals (Sci. Rep. 2017, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-11721-z). “This is hard proof that what you find in the lymph is from the tattoos,” Schreiver says.
Using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), the researchers detected higher levels of certain inorganic elements in both the skin and lymph nodes of the tattooed subjects compared with those without tattoos. Those elements included titanium, aluminum, chromium, nickel, and other metals. Some of these elements, which tattoo inks contain as preservatives or contaminants, are known to be toxic.
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<dc:subject>Germany public discovery environmental dye metals titanium</dc:subject>
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    <title>German firefighter dies 11 months after BASF explosion</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-06T11:38:09+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An October 2016 explosion at the main plant of German chemical giant BASF has claimed its fifth victim, nearly a year after the accident, the group said Tuesday.

The firefighter died overnight between Monday and Tuesday of injuries sustained that day, BASF said in a statement.

"I am deeply affected by the loss of our colleague," BASF president and chief executive Kurt Bock said. "We hoped to the last that he would overcome his injuries, and we mourn with his family and loved ones".

An explosion followed by a fire rocked the chemical company's plant in the western German city of Ludwigshafen on October 17, 2016, where more than 35,000 people work.

Two firefighters and a sailor were killed that day at the plant's on-site harbour, while another firefighter died of his injuries about two weeks later.

Six others were seriously injured and 22 more slightly wounded.

Prosecutors are still investigating the cause of the accident, which BASF executives said at the time might have been caused by workers cutting or welding the wrong pipe during maintenance.

Almost 40,000 employees at the massive chemical works in Ludwigshafen are to hold a minute of silence at 11am (0900 GMT) on Wednesday in memory of their colleague.

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<dc:subject>Germany industrial follow-up death other_chemical</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://sputniknews.com/europe/201708101056354561-germany-chemicals-explosion/">
    <title>Five People Injured in Explosion at Chemical Facility in Northwestern Germany</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-11T11:26:33+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Five people have been injured in an explosion at a chemical facility in the German town of Marl in North Rhine-Westphalia state, the facility's operating company said Thursday.

"On Thursday, August 10, an explosion and fire [originating from the blast] went off at the ISP Marl GmbH acetylene plant. Five employees were slightly injured and are receiving medical treatment… The fire brigade was able to quickly put the fire under control. The authorities are on site. The extent of the damage is not yet known," the statement read.

The Marl Chemical Park is one of the largest chemical sites in Germany. It covers an area of more than six square kilometers (2.3 square miles) and hosts Evonik holding companies, as well as 12 other chemical enterprises with roughly 100 production plants linked in an integrated material and energy network. The companies of the park employ about 10,000 people.
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<dc:subject>germany industrial explosion injuries</dc:subject>
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    <title>Germans in Uproar Over US Military's Plans to Expand Toxic Chemical Warehouse</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-08T11:33:37+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Residents of the Palatinate region of southwest Germany are protesting the expansion of the US military's chemical storage facility there, amid fears for the health and safety of local people.

© AP PHOTO/ ALIK KEPLICZ
'Moral Blow' to Germany: Poland's Prospects to Get Reparations for Nazi Actions
Residents of the Palatinate region of southwest Germany are fighting to prevent the expansion of a US Army Europe hazardous chemical storage facility, which would make it the US military's largest warehouse of its kind in Europe.
Since 2013, the warehouse has provided US forces operating across Europe with chemicals such as fuel additives and de-icing agents. The US army plans to increase its capacity 27-fold – from 70 tons at the moment, to 1,900 tons. According to the plans, the warehouse will provide US forces not only with lubricants and oils, but with 50 tons of the most hazardous chemicals.

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<dc:subject>Germany public discovery environmental</dc:subject>
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    <title>Sulphuric acid cloud from chemical plant accident triggers evacuations as 150 residents suffer breathing problems</title>
    <dc:date>2017-02-17T11:17:51+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Over 150 people have been treated for breathing problems after an accident at a chemical plant sent a cloud of sulfuric acid gas floating over a German city.

Police and firefighters evacuated dozens of people from homes and businesses near to the complex in Oberhausen where the spillage occurred on Thursday morning.

Authorities took to Twitter and Facebook to warn all residents in the metropolis in the old industrial Ruhr region to close all windows and doors and to avoid going outside.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany industrial release response sulfuric_acid</dc:subject>
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    <title>Hamburg Airport evacuated after suspected chemical leak</title>
    <dc:date>2017-02-13T12:14:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/hamburg-airport-evacuated-suspected-chemical-131201706.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Fifty people are said to have been taken to hospital after a chemical leak spread through Hamburg Airport.

Members of the public were treated for breathing problems and burning eyes by paramedics at the scene.

The German airport is on lockdown amid fears that the leak spread through the air conditioning system, with passengers and crews waiting in the building's car park in temperatures of -4C while the situation is resolved.

All flights were halted for several hours due to the evacuation, airport spokeswoman Karen Stein said to Associated Press. The cause of the incident is currently unknown.

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<dc:subject>Germany public release injury unknown_chemical</dc:subject>
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    <title>Germany: Chemical Odors Lead Police to Failed Alchemist</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-29T12:09:35+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A German landlady's concerns about suspicious chemical odors from her tenant's apartment led police to a man who was trying unsuccessfully to extract gold from old cellphone and computer circuit boards.

The woman went to police in Braubach, near the western city of Koblenz, on Wednesday, concerned that she hadn't seen her 28-year-old tenant for some time. Police said Thursday that officers found a range of chemicals, and at first suspected he was running an illegal drug lab.

Further checks and questioning of the tenant, who was on a trip to southern Germany, revealed that he had been using the chemicals to try to extract gold.

The man had gone to visit acquaintances, including a physicist, for advice. They suggested he give up.]]></description>
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    <title>Fire at Germany's chemical industry park triggers alarm nearby</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-13T15:26:47+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[FRANKFURT, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- A chemical industry park in Leverkusen, a city north of Cologne, Germany caught fire on Saturday night, triggering alarm in both Leverkusen and Cologne, local media reported.

The park is home to around 70 companies including the chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer.

A spokesperson of the park said fire erupted when chemical material was decanted in a warehouse.

Residents nearby were advised to keep doors and windows closed.

So far no casualties have been reported in the fire.

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    <title>Investigation underway into cause of fatal BASF explosion</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-09T12:04:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.plasticsnews.com/article/20161108/NEWS/311099999/investigation-underway-into-cause-of-fatal-basf-explosion</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[London — Kurt Bock, CEO of German chemical giant BASF SE, said during a London press event Nov. 7 that an investigation is underway about the cause of the Oct. 17 fire and explosion at its Ludwigshafen, Germany plant which resulted in the death of four people.

The explosion followed a fire which began on a pipeline at the group’s North Harbor facility last month. Three fire fighters who were tackling the initial blaze were killed in the subsequent explosion, along with a sailor who was working by the river.

Bock said an independent investigation into the incident was underway, but it appeared that contractors had been working on the wrong pipeline when the incident happened.

“This has been an emotionally tough and traumatic experience for everyone, both in Ludwigshafen and for BASF colleagues globally."

]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany industrial follow-up death unknown_chemical</dc:subject>
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    <title>Fourth person dies after blast at German chemical plant</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-30T13:04:11+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[BERLIN (AP) — Chemical giant BASF says another person has died from injuries sustained in an explosion at its plant in southwest Germany earlier this month, raising the death toll to four.
BASF said in a statement Saturday that a firefighter for the company died more than a week after the explosion at the plant near Ludwigshafen.
Two firefighters and a sailor on a nearby boat also died in the Oct. 17 explosion, which injured dozens of people.
The chemical company said earlier this week that the blast was likely caused by a contractor cutting the wrong pipeline.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany industrial follow-up death unknown_chemical</dc:subject>
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    <title>BASF: blast at German chemical plant likely caused by error</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-28T11:34:31+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[BERLIN (AP) — Chemical giant BASF says a deadly explosion at its plant in southwest Germany last week was likely caused by a contractor cutting the wrong pipeline.
Two firefighters and a sailor on a nearby boat died, and dozens of people were injured in the Oct. 17 explosion at the site in Ludwigshafen.
Shortly before the blast, workers had been carrying out scheduled maintenance on an empty pipeline connecting storage tanks to an area where liquids are unloaded from ships on the Rhine river.
BASF board member Margret Suckale said Thursday that investigators found a cut in a nearby pipeline carrying flammable gas.
She said the gas may have been ignited by sparks, causing a fire and then the explosion.]]></description>
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    <title>German city tells residents: stay indoors after ammonia leak</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-26T11:36:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in the southwest German city of Ludwigshafen are telling residents to stay indoors after an ammonia leak.
Officials warned people living within a kilometer (half a mile) of an ice rink Tuesday to keep their doors and windows shut and avoid going outside.
A notice on the city's website said public buses and trains were being diverted. It urged people who experience respiratory problems to seek medical help.
Ammonia is commonly used in liquid form in the refrigeration system of ice rinks. The strong-smelling chemical becomes a gas when released and can cause lung damage if people are exposed to high concentrations for extended periods.
The extent and cause of the leak weren't immediately clear.
Ludwigshafen was also the site of a recent explosion at a BASF chemical complex.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany public release response ammonia</dc:subject>
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    <title>German chemical plant explosion toll rises to three</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-20T09:45:22+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Divers on Wednesday found the body of a man at a BASF chemical plant in western Germany where an explosion occurred on Monday, police said, bringing the death toll to three.

Prosecutors have ordered an autopsy be carried out on the remains, police in the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate said in a statement.

BASF firefighters were caught in an explosion on Monday after responding to a small blaze near docks where tanker ships unload flammable liquids and liquified gases via systems of pipes.

Two firefighters were confirmed dead on Tuesday, with one person missing and more than 20 hurt, including six seriously.

The body found on Wednesday is believed to be that of the missing person.

"We have to assume that our fears have become a tragic certainty and lament a third death," BASF board member Margret Suckale said in a statement.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2016-10-18T23:27:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i42/Fatal-explosion-hits-BASFs-Ludwigshafen.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A huge explosion and fire at BASF’s Ludwigshafen, Germany, site—one of the world’s largest chemical complexes—killed two company firefighters. Another employee is missing. Eight other BASF staffers were seriously injured and 17 slightly injured from the fire, which broke out on the morning of Monday, Oct. 17.
The explosion and resultant fire occurred among pipelines that connect the firm’s harbor on the Rhine River to the Ludwigshafen complex. Maintenance work was being carried out on the pipelines, some of which carry ethylene and propylene, at the time of the explosion. The fire burned for more than 10 hours before it was extinguished.
BASF shut down the site’s two steam crackers and closed or reduced output from a further 18 or so other plants. BASF uses ethylene and propylene at the site to make a broad range of products including insulating materials, solvents, and paints.
“We are deeply saddened that employees have died and several have been injured. Our deepest sympathy lies with the affected people and their families,” site manager Uwe Liebelt said.
Another explosion occurred at BASF’s Lampertheim, Germany, plastics additives plant on the same morning. Four workers were injured. BASF says the cause of that incident is not yet known. Production at the plant has been suspended.
Process safety incidents at BASF occurred at a rate of 2.1 and 2.2 per million working hours in 2014 and 2015, respectively, according to the firm.
CEFIC, a European chemicals trade association, has pledged its full support to BASF. “Given the sheer scale of operations and people involved at such plants, unfortunately incidents can still happen from time to time,” Director General Marco Mensink says.
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    <title>At least one dead in explosion at German BASF chemical plant</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-18T11:18:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/17/several-injured-in-explosion-at-basf-facility-in-germany.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[BASF, the world's biggest chemical company, said it now believed two of its employees died on Monday in an explosion and subsequent fire at its site in Ludwigshafen in Germany, where it is headquartered.

Six people were severely injured and two people are still missing, the company said in a statement.

The explosion occurred earlier on Monday, sending up plumes of smoke and prompting BASF to turn off some of its production facilities.

Black smoke rises from the scene of an explosion at the BASF chemical facility on October 17, 2016 in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
A fire that broke out following the blast sent up plumes of smoke, prompting BASF, the world's biggest chemicals company, and the city of Ludwigshafen to urge residents in the surrounding area to avoid going outside and to keep their windows and doors shut. 

Measurements taken in the area so far have indicated no risk from toxic fumes, BASF said.

"We will of course do everything we can to clear the matter up," site chief Liebelt said.

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<dc:subject>Germany industrial explosion death unknown_chemical</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.albawaba.com/news/germany-begins-destroying-gaddafi-era-chemical-weapons-libya-882232">
    <title>Germany begins destroying Gaddafi-era chemical weapons from Libya</title>
    <dc:date>2016-09-11T12:06:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.albawaba.com/news/germany-begins-destroying-gaddafi-era-chemical-weapons-libya-882232</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Germany has begun destroying toxic materials from Libya’s chemical weapons program, the country’s defense ministry revealed on Friday.

Nearly 500 tons of toxic materials dating back to the Gaddafi era were transferred to a special center in northern Germany this week, the ministry said in a statement.

The work of destroying the chemicals will continue for several months.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said his country’s assistance to the Libyan Government of National Accord would contribute to international security.

“We need to prevent toxic chemicals from falling into the wrong hands. In doing so, our aim is to improve security in Germany, Europe and, of course, Libya,” he said in a statement.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany industrial discovery response toxics</dc:subject>
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    <title>Ansbach drinking water safe, but chemical cleanup continues</title>
    <dc:date>2016-06-25T23:35:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.stripes.com/news/ansbach-drinking-water-safe-but-chemical-cleanup-continues-1.416131</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — Cleanup is underway after a high level of a discontinued chemical compound was found in the soil and groundwater near the Ansbach military community.

The chemical, perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, or PFOS, was widely used in firefighting foam until it was phased out about a decade ago. PFOS is in the perfluorochemical, or PFC, family of chemicals. They do not break down in the environment, and their effect on human health is not fully known, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Prompted in part by high-profile contamination cases near Nuremberg and Dusseldorf, the Ansbach city government requested a sampling of soil and water near the American military air field at Katterbach Kaserne.

Base officials then commissioned independent, non-U.S.-military testing of the base groundwater and soil from an off-site laboratory certified by the German government.

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<dc:subject>Germany public discovery environmental other_chemical</dc:subject>
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    <title>Smoke pours out of Hamburg chemical warehouse as hundreds of liters of sulfuric &amp; nitric acid mix — RT News</title>
    <dc:date>2016-03-22T11:31:59+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Smoke is pouring out of a chemical warehouse in Hamburg, Germany, after a forklift truck slashed a barrel of sulfuric acid, which mixed with a container of nitric acid that had fallen off a shelf. Firefighters are at the scene.
A large-scale fire brigade operation is currently underway, according to local media. More than 40 firefighters are at the warehouse, which has been contaminated with toxic fumes.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany industrial release response nitric_acid sulfuric_acid</dc:subject>
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    <title>Chemists Achieve Hydrocyanation Without Using Toxic Hydrogen Cyanide</title>
    <dc:date>2016-02-20T13:47:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i8/Chemists-Achieve-Hydrocyanation-Without-Using.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hydrocyanation is a go-to reaction for converting an alkene to a nitrile, which is one of the most versatile functional groups available to chemists. The process is used industrially to produce adiponitrile, an intermediate for making nylon. However, it is rarely used in the lab or for fine chemicals production because the hydrogen cyanide required as a reagent is extremely toxic, volatile, and potentially explosive.
Researchers in Germany have now designed an approach to hydrocyanation that not only avoids HCN’s pitfalls but is controllably reversible, which could make the reaction even more valuable (Science 2016, DOI: 10.1126/science.aae0427).
Xianjie Fang, Peng Yu, and Bill Morandi of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research use a nickel catalyst as a shuttle to pluck hydrogen and a cyano group from a donor nitrile and transfer them to an alkene to form a nitrile. The team shows the reaction is useful to make aryl nitriles and for functionalizing biomolecules such as tyrosine and estrone.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany laboratory discovery environmental cyanide</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.joc.com/maritime-news/container-lines/hapag-lloyd/rise-improperly-declared-hazmat-cargo-highlights-supply-chain-risk_20160209.html">
    <title>Rise in improperly declared hazmat cargo highlights supply chain risk</title>
    <dc:date>2016-02-10T12:54:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.joc.com/maritime-news/container-lines/hapag-lloyd/rise-improperly-declared-hazmat-cargo-highlights-supply-chain-risk_20160209.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hapag-Lloyd says there was a 65 percent increase in improperly declared hazardous cargo it carried last year, the latest sign of how dangerous goods could disrupt supply chains through accidents such as those that took place recently in China and Brazil.

The announcement of the discovery of more than 4,300 cases of wrongly declared cargo was made possible by Hapag’s Watchdog IT system, which reviews cargo data and flags unusual or suspicious information and shipments for further inspection.

It is actually because of one of these aforementioned incidents, the explosion at the world’s tenth-busiest port of Tianjin in August, that Hapag saw such a steep increase in misdeclared cargo. Increased scrutiny of supply chains and shipments by ports in the wake of that explosion, which killed more than 170 people, was at least partly responsible for the uptick, according to Ken Rohlmann, head of the dangerous goods department at Hapag-Lloyd.

The other reason for the dramatic increase in Hapag-Lloyd’s number of misdeclared shipments is the acquisition of CSAV, which dramatically increased the number of shipments handled by Hapag.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany transportation discovery environmental other_chemical</dc:subject>
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    <title>Tank explodes, building partly collapses at German plant</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-06T11:12:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.whig.com/story/29714698/tank-explodes-building-partly-collapses-at-german-plant</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[BERLIN (AP) - Authorities say that a nitrogen tank has exploded and part of a building collapsed at a chemical plant in western Germany, injuring several people.

News agency dpa reported that the operator of the Chempark complex in Krefeld, near Duesseldorf, said 10 people were injured - two of them seriously.

The local fire service initially said five people were missing but later said everyone had been accounted for.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany industrial explosion injury nitrogen</dc:subject>
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    <title>This Is The World's Smelliest Chemical</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-20T11:30:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://io9.com/this-is-the-worlds-smelliest-chemical-1705413119</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ever heard of thioacetone? If you live in Freiburg, Germany, you probably have. It takes a lot for people to forget a stink that once evacuated an entire city.

A factory in Freiberg attempted to make thioacetone in 1889. Thioacetone is not easy to make — the compound (CH3)2CS stays liquid only at temperatures of under -20 degrees celsius; get it any warmer and it clumps together and converts to a white solid called trithioacentone — but in either form, it stinks horribly. The odor from the factory was able to be smelled (what’s the word for smellable? Odible?) from half a kilometer away. It spread throughout the entire city, where it caused “fainting, vomiting, and a panic evacuation” according to factory workers.

That should have been enough for science, but it seems that chemists make it a point to never learn. In 1967, workers at an Esso station near Oxford decided to give it another go. A bottle came unstoppered and the entire lab found themselves “with an odour problem beyond our worst expectations.” The chemists replaced the stopper but, the incident, “resulted in an immediate complaint of nausea and sickness from colleagues working in a building two hundred yards away.” What’s more, it seems that thioacetone is the kind of smell that clings. Two chemists making tiny amounts of the thioacetone discovered that they couldn’t go to restaurants anymore because they stank so badly that waitresses sprayed the air around them with deodorant.

The Esso people abandoned the project, for obvious reasons, but not before they figured out how bad thioacetone stank. They were the ones to figure out that thioacetone’s odor had a reach of half a kilometer, but also that it only took a single drop to contaminate the area with its noxious smell. Thanks, guys!]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany laboratory discovery environmental other_chemical</dc:subject>
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    <title>Explosion Rocks German Chemical Factory</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-04T11:55:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.jems.com/article/news/explosion-rocks-german-chemical-factory</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ERLIN (AP) — Police say one person has been killed and another four seriously injured after a furnace apparently exploded in a factory in eastern Germany.

Authorities told the dpa news agency Monday that some 30 people were at work at the time of the evening explosion at the chemical plant in Pirna, near Dresden.

More than 100 emergency personnel responded to help put out the fire and rescue the employees.

All houses within 100 meters (109 yards) of the factory were evacuated and others in the area were told to keep their doors and windows closed.

The cause of the explosion was under investigation.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany industrial explosion death unknown_chemical</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141023/2nd-ld-writethru-explosion-germany-kills-one-injures-21">
    <title>2nd LD Writethru: Explosion in Germany kills one, injures 21</title>
    <dc:date>2014-10-25T22:16:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141023/2nd-ld-writethru-explosion-germany-kills-one-injures-21</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[BERLIN, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- At least one person was killed Thursday in a powerful explosion in the southwestern German city of Ludwigshafen, German media Focus Online reported.

Local police said the blast happened at around noon local time (1000 GMT) at a construction site located close to the factory facilities of BASF, a leading chemical company.

At least one person was killed and 21 others were injured, two of them seriously, according to the police.

The exact cause of the accident is still not clear, but early investigations showed that a gas pipe at the construction site had burst, causing a big explosion and huge flames in the area.

At least 25 apartments are now uninhabitable and local authorities are seeking shelter for those affected, according to reports.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany industrial explosion death unknown_chemical</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thelocal.de/20140916/man-dies-six-days-after-chemical-blast-ritterhude">
    <title>Man dies six days after chemical blast</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-17T17:34:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thelocal.de/20140916/man-dies-six-days-after-chemical-blast-ritterhude</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The massive explosion at Ritterhude last Tuesday night damaged around 40 homes, destroyed the chemical plant and injured four people.

The most serious injuries were sustained by a 60-year-old who worked for chemical company Organo Fluid.

He was found on the site by emergency services the morning after the blast and taken to hospital.

According to police he died overnight on Monday into Tuesday at a specialist clinic in Hanover.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany industrial explosion death unknown_chemical</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://rt.com/news/186492-germany-chemical-plant-explosion/">
    <title>Massive explosion rocks German chemical plant (PHOTOS, VIDEO) — RT News</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-10T11:26:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rt.com/news/186492-germany-chemical-plant-explosion/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A powerful explosion heard from kilometers away has rocked a chemical plant near Bremen, in northern Germany. At least one person has reportedly been injured while the plant buildings sustained “serious damage,” first responders say.

More than 300 firefighters have been called in to battle the explosion and massive fire at the Bergolin company plant in Ritterhude, a city north of Bremen with a population of 15,000. The plant reportedly produces primarily industrial coatings.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany industrial explosion injury paints</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/automotive/sns-rt-us-rd-chemical-industry-analysis-20140220,0,1538135.story">
    <title>Europe's chemical firms pin hopes on R&amp;D with customers</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-20T11:45:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/automotive/sns-rt-us-rd-chemical-industry-analysis-20140220,0,1538135.story</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European chemicals and plastics makers are cutting in-house research and instead trying to persuade industrial customers to work together on developing running shoes, cars or electronics.

Collaborating can cut millions of euros from research and development (R&D) budgets and translate into exclusive supplier contracts as chemical and plastics profits come under pressure from cheaper emerging market competition and rising fuel bills.

German chemicals group BASF has started working with sportswear maker Adidas to make running shoe soles more bouncy. Solvay is developing polymer linings for corroded pipelines with an oil major while Lanxess is helping VW unit Skoda make car parts.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany other discovery response plastics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25922514">
    <title>German cows cause methane blast in Rasdorf</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-28T14:16:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25922514</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Methane gas released by dairy cows has caused an explosion in a cow shed in Germany, police said.

The roof was damaged and one of the cows was injured in the blast in the central German town of Rasdorf.

Thanks to the belches and flatulence of the 90 dairy cows in the shed, high levels of the gas had built up.

Then "a static electric charge caused the gas to explode with flashes of flames" the force said in a statement quoted by Reuters news agency.

Emergency services attended the farm and took gas readings to test for the risk of further blasts, said local media.

Cows are believed to emit up to 500 litres of methane each per day.

Cattle ranching is a polluting business - methane is a potent greenhouse gas and cows also release large amounts of ammonia, which can lead to toxic acidification of soil and water bodies.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany industrial explosion injury ammonia methane</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thelocal.de/20140116/acid-explosion-injures-17-in-lab-kit-karlsruhe">
    <title>Acid explosion injures chemistry students</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-16T12:28:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thelocal.de/20140116/acid-explosion-injures-17-in-lab-kit-karlsruhe</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A student was seriously injured and 15 others also hurt when the left-overs of a chemical experiment exploded after they were mistakenly mixed together at a German university.
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The 24-year-old student was hit by flying glass and breathed in poisonous chemicals which are thought to have caused a lung embolism, police in Karlsruhe said on Thursday.

The organic chemistry students were clearing up after an afternoon's lab work in the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) on Wednesday when a mix of nitric acid and sulphuric acid came into contact with an organic chemical.

The glass beaker containing the left-over acids exploded, scattering acid, poisonous fumes and pieces of glass across the laboratory. Police estimated that around €10,000-worth of damage was caused.

All those in the lab inhaled the gases, which led to some breathing difficulties, police said in a statement. The 24-year-old student was seriously hurt and was taken to accident and emergency at the local hospital.

The others were taken to various hospitals nearby for examination, as was a firefighter who suffered a chemical eye injury.

The building was evacuated while firefighters carried out tests for chemicals, but found no danger. Karlsruhe police were on Thursday collecting evidence to establish what had happened, but there was no immediate suspicion of foul play, a spokeswoman told The Local.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany laboratory explosion injury nitric_acid solvent sulfuric_acid</dc:subject>
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    <title>WWII era chemical bomb prompts evacuation in central Germany — RT News</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-25T10:52:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rt.com/news/germany-chemical-bomb-found-690/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The discovery of a stash of chemical warfare agents preserved since World War II prompted the evacuation of the residents in the eastern German town of Leuna in Saxony-Anhalt, local media reports.

An unexploded smoke aerial bomb and six integrated paper cartridges, all manufactured in Germany, were found at the site. Residents in a radius of 300 meters have been evacuated. 

An expert team from the nearby town of Halle has been called to the scene for the liquidation of chemical weapons. 

The defusing of the WWII era weapons should be started after noon, said deputy mayor Volker Stein as cited by Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. 
]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany industrial discovery response bomb</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es3041658">
    <title>Quantification of Nanoscale Silver Particles Removal and Release from Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants in Germany</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-21T01:39:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es3041658</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The majority of pure silver nanoparticles in consumer products are likely released into sewer systems and usually end up in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Research investigating the reduction in nanoscale silver particles (n-Ag-Ps) has focused on the biological treatment process, generally in controlled laboratory experiments. This study, analyzing the field-collected samples from nine municipal WWTPs in Germany, is the first to evaluate the reduction in n-Ag-Ps by mechanical and biological treatments in sequence in WWTPs. Additionally, the concentration of n-Ag-Ps in effluent was determined through two different methods that are presented here: novel ionic exchange resin (IER) and cloud point extraction (CPE) methods. The n-Ag-Ps concentrations in influent were all low (<1.5 μg/L) and decreased (average removal efficiency of 35%) significantly after mechanical treatment, indicating that the mechanical treatment contributes to the n-Ag-Ps removal. Afterward, more than 72% of the remaining n-Ag-Ps in the semi-treated wastewater (i.e., wastewater after mechanical treatment) were reduced by biological treatment. Together, these processes reduced 95% of the n-Ag-Ps that entered WWTPs, which resulted in low concentration of n-Ag-Ps in the effluents (<12 ng/L). For a WWTP with 520000 t/d treatment capacity, we estimated that the daily n-Ag-Ps load in effluent discharge equated to about 4.4 g/d. Obviously, WWTPs are not potential point sources for n-Ag-Ps in the aquatic environment.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany public release environmental nanotech</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thelocal.de/society/20130515-49725.html#.UZN1K6Ice5I">
    <title>Toxic chemical cloud drifts over Frankfurt</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-15T11:45:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thelocal.de/society/20130515-49725.html#.UZN1K6Ice5I</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A poisonous cloud containing a potentially cancer-causing chemical was accidentally released over Frankfurt on Tuesday, with residents of two districts warned to stay indoors throughout the afternoon.

The cloud of nitrobenzene escaped after an accident at a chemical plant belonging to the firm Clariant in an industrial park near the Höchst district of the city. 

The leak was only stopped after half an hour, a spokesman for the Frankfurt fire brigade said, adding that measurements outside the park suggested there were no immediate health risks.

Nevertheless, a spokesman for the industrial park operator Infraserv said the cloud drifted over the Höchst and Unterliederbach districts, where residents were told to stay at home and keep doors and windows shut during the afternoon. Police also closed off the centre of Höchst and shut down a local railway station. Many people in the area were seen holding their hands or cloth in front of their mouths.

The all-clear was only given in the early evening. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany public release response other_chemical nitrobenzene</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://cenblog.org/the-safety-zone/2013/03/a-safety-warning-on-tognis-reagents/">
    <title>A safety warning on Togni’s reagents</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-08T12:29:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cenblog.org/the-safety-zone/2013/03/a-safety-warning-on-tognis-reagents/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From Novasep in Germany and Organic Process Research and Development comes word that Togni’s reagent II, used for trifluoromethylations, is explosive. Also highly hazardous is an intermediate in the reagent’s synthesis and probably Togni’s reagent I.

Togni’s reagent II, in particular, shows some properties comparable to trinitrotoluene and gunpowder. Caution the paper’s authors:

Work with the compounds behind a safety shield and use small amounts
Avoid open flames and sparking
Don’t grind the materials with “brute force” (I think I’d probably err on the side of not grinding at all)
Use “soft and polished tools” for manipulations
Avoid caking and disperse lumps early
Impurities may influence the thermal and mechanical sensitivity of the material
The Sigma-Aldrich material safety data sheet for Togni’s reagent II, 1-(trifluoromethyl-1,2-benziodoxol-3(1H)-one, mixed with diatomaceous earth classifies the product only as an irritant and toxic. Togni’s reagent I, 3,3-dimethyl-1-trifluoromethyl-1,2-benziodoxole, is flagged as an irritant.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany laboratory discovery response explosives</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thelocal.de/national/20121016-45575.html">
    <title>Thousands evacuated in chemical accident alert</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-16T11:39:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thelocal.de/national/20121016-45575.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Around 2,000 people were evacuated from their houses on Monday night after a chemical accident in a food factory in Lower Saxony sparked a catastrophe alarm. 

“At around 1 pm a tank of sodium hydroxide solution was by mistake filled with nitric acid,” said Heike Hauerken, spokeswoman for Kraft Foods, at the factory in Bad Fallingbostel, between Bremen and Hannover. The chemicals are used for cleaning.

A reaction started while fire fighters tried to pump the nitric acid out of the tank, producing a poisonous cloud of nitrous gases considered extremely harmful if they come into contact with skin or are inhaled. 

The 250 or so people working at the factory were evacuated, as were around 800 people living in the immediate vicinity – but shortly afterwards the risk zone was enlarged to around 500 metres in radius and a further 1,000 or so people were told to leave their houses. 

Emergency accommodation was set up for them in nearby halls, and Stephan Meier, spokesman for the regional fire brigade, said the evacuation ran smoothly. The A7 autobahn was also closed for a short while. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany industrial release response nitric_acid sodium_hydroxide</dc:subject>
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    <title>Chemjobber: Process Wednesday: the 20,001st time</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-22T13:29:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://chemjobber.blogspot.com/2012/08/process-wednesday-20001st-time.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[While fairly rare, I occasionally hear a risk analysis that can be summarized as "we've done it before, and not had any problems with it." Whenever I hear that, I'm immediately reminded of the early, early days of industrial-scale chemistry and the Oppau explosion. From Wikipedia [emphases mine]:
The Oppau explosion occurred on September 21, 1921 when a tower silo storing 4,500 tonnes of a mixture of ammonium sulfate and ammonium nitrate fertilizer exploded at a BASF plant in Oppau, now part of Ludwigshafen, Germany, killing 500–600 people and injuring about 2,000 more. The plant began producing ammonium sulfate in 1911, but during World War I when Germany was unable to obtain the necessary sulfur, it began to produce ammonium nitrate as well... 
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    <title>Munich explosion rocks German city</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-30T11:04:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/munich-explosion-rocks-german-city-1286205</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[THE detonation of the 70-year-old device resulted in several street closures while burning debris started numerous rooftop fires.

 The detonation of the bomb caused mayhem in the city
A FIREBALL explosion rocked Munich after a 550lb World War II bomb was detonated.

The 70-year-old US-made device’s chemical trigger meant bomb disposal experts were unable to defuse it. So they carried out a controlled explosion after evacuating 2500 people and clearing the immediate area of cars.

But the operation on Tuesday – a day after demolition men found the bomb under a bar – brought chaos to the city.

Firefighters tackle one of the blazes caused by the blast  
Several streets were closed, including part of the city’s ring road, and thousands more 
residents were told to stay indoors.

Burning debris started a number of fires on rooftops and in the nearby streets. But police said they were quickly put out and the damage was minor.]]></description>
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    <title>Deadly Blast Rocks Evonik Plant</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-16T17:06:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i15/Deadly-Blast-Rocks-Evonik-Plant.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An explosion and subsequent fire that lasted 16 hours has killed two workers at an Evonik Industries chemical plant in Marl, Germany. The cause of the March 31 accident remains unknown but is under investigation by both government authorities and an Evonik contractor.
The accident occurred in the early afternoon at a plant that produces cyclododecatriene, an intermediate used to make nylon 12, flame retardants, flavors, and fragrances. One worker was killed immediately, and hours passed before his body could be recovered. A second worker, who suffered severe burns, died of his injuries two days later.
During the blaze, some unspecified amount of the carcinogen butadiene did leak, an Evonik spokeswoman says. However, she says, the chemical was consumed by fire, which accounted for the black smoke billowing from the plant site. The public was never at risk from exposure to butadiene, and no other chemical was involved in the blaze, she adds.
At C&EN’s press time, Evonik did not know the full extent of damage to the Marl plant, but it expects “substantial constraints” for the time being on its output of nylon 12, used in auto parts, photovoltaic modules, and sporting goods. The firm says the accident has not affected output of other plastics made at the site, including the engineering polymers polybutylene terephthalate and polyether ether ketone.
About 10,000 Evonik employees work at the 2.5-sq-mile Marl site, which is also home to 30 other chemical-related companies.
Accidents are infrequent in the German chemical industry. Chemical workers in Germany suffered 9.4 accidents per million hours worked in 2010, according to the German Chemical Industry Association, compared with 41.6 in construction, 9.8 in health care, and 16.5 for all industries. In the U.S., chemical workers experienced 11.0 accidents per million hours worked, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Evonik itself recorded just 1.3 accidents per million hours worked company-wide in 2010 and no deaths.]]></description>
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    <title>Garlicky smell sparks university evacuation</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-20T12:04:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20120120-40225.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nearly 100 students and staff who were taken to hospital after a chemistry experiment was thought to have gone wrong at Dresden’s Technical University seem to have been the victims of a false alarm – and a garlicky smell. 

Technicians gave the all clear on Friday afternoon after examining the chemistry laboratory where it was thought an experiment with arsenic-containing compounds used to make World War I poison gas. 

Although 97 students and staff - and five fire fighters - had gone to hospital complaining of nausea, headaches and some started vomiting, no-one had been poisoned. The only clue that remained was that many said the 'poisonous gas' had smelled of garlic.

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    <title>Chemical accident injures 39 people in Germany</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-18T12:19:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/17/world/europe/germany-chemical-accident/index.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Berlin (CNN) -- A chemical accident involving chlorine gas injured nearly 40 people Tuesday at a plant for security technology in Bruhl.
Of the 39 victims, seven were seriously injured, according to Markus Brachschoss, a spokesman for the local fire department. Around 300 people were inside the plant at the time of the accident.
The incident occurred when two chemicals -- sodium hypochlorite and hydrochloric acid -- came into contact, emitting chlorine gas.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Germany industrial release injury chlorine</dc:subject>
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    <title>Chemical accident sparks major rescue operation - The Local</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-17T12:21:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thelocal.de/national/20110216-33131.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A chemical accident at a transport company in northern Hesse spurred a large-scale rescue operation overnight. Some 15 people were hospitalized and surrounding buildings were evacuated, police said Wednesday.
What's on in Germany: February 17 - 23 (17 Feb 11)
Loud children no longer considered noise pollution (16 Feb 11)
The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany (16 Feb 11)
A worker accidentally punctured a 200-litre tank of the toxic chemical thiophenol with a forklift around 1 am, and some 30 litres of the sulphur compound escaped, Homberg police said. 

All fire fighters in the Schwalm-Eder county, along with those in neighbouring communities, rushed to the scene. About 150 medics and 50 chemical specialists were also on hand to aid in decontaminating the area.

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<dc:subject>germany industrial release response thiols</dc:subject>
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    <title>Vessel Laden With Sulfuric Acid Sinks in Germany | Latest News | Chemical &amp; Engineering News</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-14T10:32:51+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A boat carrying 2,400 tons of sulfuric acid from the chemical company BASF capsized in Germany's Rhine River at 5 a.m. today, Jan. 13. Rescuers are searching the river for two missing men who are part of the ship's four-man crew.

At this point, "to our knowledge no acid leaked into the river," from the stainless steel double-hulled tanker called the Waldorf, Robert Baack, the chief operating officer for Lehnkering, the company managing the shipping, said in a statement.

The capsize happened, "for as yet unexplained reasons," he noted.

River levels are higher than normal due to recent melting of large quantities of snow that fell over the past month, and the accident occurred at a narrow point in the river which is known to have strong currents, according to AFP, the French press agency.

The boat was carrying the sulfuric acid from Ludwigshafen, in southern Germany to Antwerp, Belgium, says Ursula von Stetten, a BASF spokeswoman.

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