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    <title>Fire engulfs private pharma lab in Visakhapatnam after reactor explosion, 7 injured</title>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As many as seven people were injured after a fire broke out in a private pharmaceutical lab in Atchutapuram Industrial Special Economic Zone, in the Anakapalli locality of Visakhapatnam, police said on Friday. "At about 11:10 am, in a pharmaceutical lab, when a solvent was being loaded into a container, some short circuit occurred and the solvent exploded. There were 35 people working, and 7 were injured. The injured have been shifted to the hospital," ASP PSN Rao, Anakapalli told ANI.
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Upon receiving information about the fire, police teams and fire tenders rushed to the site. The fire was caused due to a sudden reactor blast, according to the Superintendent of Police, Anakapalli Murali Krishna.
District Fire Officer, Lakshman Rao, said that eight fire tenders rushed to the spot and four more are on the way. The operation is still underway, as the fire is still not doused at the lab.
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    <title>Why did UC Merced stage a chemical spill?</title>
    <dc:date>2023-05-26T11:07:34+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[MERCED, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A staged chemical spill was conducted by the University of California in Merced on Thursday with the purpose to train first responders in the event of a real hazardous incident happening.

The University of Merced Police said that it is really important to collaborate with the first responders so everyone would be prepared if a real incident happens.

Officials stated that the staged scenario consisted of an accidental chemical spill in the Sustainability Research and Engineering Building during research.

The University of Merced Police stated that it is important to build confidence among the first responders and the community. They also said that it is important to know which areas might need improvement and which areas already work so they can plan ahead and move forward.

Officials say that the University of Merced partnered with the Merced County Fire Department, the Merced County Environmental Health, the Merced County Public Health, the Merced County Office of Emergency Services, and the Merced City Fire Department, as well as the Sciences Department from the university.

According to the University of Merced Police, around 100 people participated in the training, and this is not the only training happening in 2023.]]></description>
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    <title>UNH doctoral student arrested in connection with hazmat incident at Durham home</title>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[May 23—A University of New Hampshire doctoral student is facing reckless conduct with a deadly weapon and improper disposal of hazardous materials charges in connection with a toxic chemical in a Durham home, officials said.

On Saturday, May 13, Durham police, fire, and personnel with McGregor Memorial EMS responded to 35 Oyster River Road in Durham for a report of a 29-year-old man reporting he may have been exposed to a toxic chemical.

Durham police say a man identified as Emad Mustafa was transported to Wentworth Douglass Hospital, where he was treated and released the same day.

On Tuesday, under the direction of the Strafford County Attorney's Office, Durham police and fire departments, the University of New Hampshire Police Department, New Hampshire State Police, federal partners, and the Seacoast Technical Assistance Response Team (START), a search warrant was executed at Mustafa's residence.

Mustafa was arrested for reckless conduct with a deadly weapon, and improper disposal of hazardous materials — both class B felonies that carry a maximum of seven years in prison.

START is a regional hazardous materials team operating under the leadership of the Seacoast Chief Fire Officers Mutual Aid District. Several Seacoast-area towns make up the 40 member team.

The Southeastern New Hampshire Hazardous Material Mutual Aid District was called to assist START as well, "due to the nature of the event," officials said.

"The health and safety of the community was the priority during this investigation and at no time was there a safety concern for the community or surrounding neighbors," Durham police said in a statement. "The hazardous material was identified and contained during the operation and there is no public safety hazard known at this time."

Mustafa is a UNH Ph.D. student, Durham police said in a statement. He is scheduled for arraignment at the Strafford County Superior Court on June 22.]]></description>
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    <title>‘Phoenix rising from the ashes’ – world-leading biomedical lab re-opens after devastating fire</title>
    <dc:date>2023-05-03T11:05:33+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The world-leading Biomedical Sciences (BMS) facility at the University of St Andrews was officially re-opened last week (Wednesday 26 April) four years after a devastating fire ripped through the hi-tech laboratories.

Following the fire in February 2019, which destroyed labs and research facilities, the University undertook a £21 million investment project to refurbish and modernise the BMS building. The redevelopment and restoration, which started just before the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, was completed in the summer of 2022.

Professor Dame Sally Mapstone FRSE, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University, welcomed staff, students and invited guests to the official re-opening in the presence of distinguished honorary graduates, Professor Lesley Yellowlees CBE and Professor Sir Mike Ferguson, Regius Professor of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee.

The new design of the BMS building centres on efficient spaces that facilitate collaborative working within modern research and teaching laboratories, along with workspace and breakout areas strategically located in a warm and welcoming building.

Reflecting on the fire and the efforts of staff, students, and the St Andrews community to restore the facilities, Professor Mapstone commented: “The re-opening of our world-class BMS building is, therefore, an occasion for celebration and for looking forward to the future. However, I do wish to acknowledge the difficulties that had to be overcome for us to arrive at today’s event, because it is only against this background that we can truly appreciate the hard work and dedication that so many members of our community have demonstrated over the past four years.”

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    <title>WHO warns of biological hazard at seized Sudan lab</title>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[GENEVA — The World Health Organization (WHO) said there’s a “high risk of biological hazard” at a laboratory caught up in the ongoing conflict in Sudan.

Officials said it was unclear who was behind the occupation of the National Public Health Laboratory in the capital Khartoum.

The city has been ravaged by fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

The WHO told the BBC on Tuesday that workers can no longer access the lab.

And it warned that power cuts were making it impossible to properly manage material at the lab.

Officials said that a broad range of biological and chemical materials are stored in the lab. The facility holds measles and cholera pathogens, as well as other hazardous materials.

A lack of power is also putting depleting stocks of blood bags stored at the lab at risk of spoiling.

The lab is near the center of Khartoum and not far from city’s main airport.

It lies just outside the area where Sudan’s military headquarters are located, and where a lot of the fighting has been taking place.]]></description>
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    <title>Sudan crisis: WHO warns of biological hazard at seized lab</title>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The World Health Organization (WHO) says there's a "high risk of biological hazard" at a laboratory caught up in the ongoing conflict in Sudan.
Officials said it was unclear who was behind the occupation of the National Public Health Laboratory in the capital Khartoum.
The city has been ravaged by fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The WHO told the BBC on Tuesday that workers can no longer access the lab.
And it warned that power cuts were making it impossible to properly manage material at the lab.
Officials said that a broad range of biological and chemical materials are stored in the lab. The facility holds measles and cholera pathogens, as well as other hazardous materials.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/patiala/major-fire-averted-at-punjabi-varsity-499131">
    <title>Major fire averted at Punjabi varsity</title>
    <dc:date>2023-04-20T10:44:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/patiala/major-fire-averted-at-punjabi-varsity-499131</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A major fire was averted at Punjabi University today morning. University authorities said an outbreak took place at the laboratory of the Department of Zoology and Environmental Sciences on the campus at 3.45 am.

They said the outbreak was controlled by security officers on the campus. VC Professor Arvind said the employees who were instrumental in dousing the flames will be honoured.

University security officer Gurtej Singh said the fire incident purportedly took place due to a short circuit at the lab on the ground floor of the building. The swift action of the employees saved the expensive equipment from being damaged.

The fire was brought under control and extinguished by 4.15 am.

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<dc:subject>India laboratory fire response unknown_chemical</dc:subject>
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    <title>Small explosion at University of Utah science lab causes minor damage</title>
    <dc:date>2023-04-09T11:23:26+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April 8, 2023 (Gephardt Daily) — A small chemical explosion inside a science lab at the University of Utah blew out a window and caused minor damage Saturday afternoon.

Salt Lake City Fire Capt. Shaun Mumedy told Gephardt Daily the explosion happened about 12:30 p.m. in the James Fletcher Building, home to the university’s physics and astronomy department. No injuries were reported, he said.

Only one person was inside the lab at the time of the explosion, Mumedy said. That person self-treated and left the lab before fire crews arrived, he said.]]></description>
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    <title>Explosion at a building in Jefferson County near Nederland</title>
    <dc:date>2023-04-09T11:23:06+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[JEFFERSON COUNTY — BREAKING: Three people have been injured in an explosion at a building on Jerry Ware Drive in Jefferson County near Nederland, according to Nederland Police Chief Gary Porter.

Nederland Fire Chief Terry Morton says that three AmSpec employees were injured due to a small explosion and a flash fire while conducting testing in the lab at about 5 p.m. All three were treated at the scene and one was transported by air to UTMB and two to Memorial Herman Hospital. Chief Morton advised that at no time was there a danger to the public. Chief Morton says it's his understanding the business does lab testing of oil and gas samples for industry, among other things.

The Nederland Fire Department, Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, Acadian Ambulance and the Jefferson County Office of Emergency Management responded. 
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<dc:subject>us_CO laboratory explosion injury unknown_chemical</dc:subject>
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    <title>Analysis of Chemical Accidents in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Laboratories in Korea by Jong Gu Kim, Han Jin Jo, Hyung Jun Jeon, Seong Pil Chung, Jin Hyuk Hong, Ju Hyuk Lee, Hwang Won Lee, Young Hee Roh :: SSRN</title>
    <dc:date>2023-03-29T12:08:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Chemical safety in chemistry/chemical engineering laboratories is important because the hazards and risks (toxicity, flammability, and explosiveness) to a person or property are the same as those in industries. While there has been research on preventing laboratory accidents, it mostly focused on one laboratory/institution or used informal and limited accident databases. This is the first study to statistically analyze all chemical laboratory accidents in South Korea during 2015–2021 to examine the relationship between accident types, accident causes, damage types, and damaged areas. The data included accidents with injury requiring treatment for more than three days, in accordance with the standards of the Act on the Establishment of Safe Laboratory Environment. Frequency analysis was conducted on the current status of each variable, and a cross-tabulation analysis identified the associations between them. The results identified 1,380 laboratory accidents with 342 chemistry/chemical engineering accidents, a number that had doubled from 2015 to 2021. Chemical accidents were categorized as fires, explosions, and spills according to accident type; spills had the highest frequency (69.0%) and were mostly caused by inadequate handling of chemicals (62.5%). Most explosions (62.2%) and fires (52.2%) were caused by abnormal/runaway reactions. Burn damage was high in all accident types, especially spills (76.1%). The face was damaged highly in all accident types, and explosions damaged multiple areas. Based on the results, several safety management measures are proposed to prevent/reduce spills, explosions, fires, and damage. The results can help researchers develop new protective technologies to ensure safety in chemistry/chemical engineering laboratories.

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<dc:subject>Republic_of_Korea laboratory discovery environmental</dc:subject>
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    <title>No injuries reported in explosion at Université de Moncton lab</title>
    <dc:date>2023-03-26T11:29:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/moncton-fire-explosions-udem-1.6791224</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Firefighters responded to the Université de Moncton Saturday morning after a small explosion in one of the university's labs.

Moncton Fire Department responded to the university's science building and found a small fire linked to some laboratory equipment.

Platoon Chief Keith Guptill said the department was investigating if the fire was linked to a malfunction with a machine that separates water into hydrogen and oxygen.

The fire was quickly extinguished and no injuries have been reported.

An investigation is underway.]]></description>
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    <title>The promise and pitfalls of generative AI for research</title>
    <dc:date>2023-03-20T10:33:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/the-promise-and-pitfalls-of-generative-ai-for-research/4017153.article</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The implications of using generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like the wildly popular ChatGPT for research was a hot topic of discussion at the recent annual meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington DC. The chatbot, launched by OpenAI less than five months ago, has already been listed as a co-author on several research papers.

In January, the Science family of journals published by AAAS announced a complete ban on such text-generating algorithms, with editor-in-chief Holden Thorp expressing significant concern about the potential effect these technologies could have on research. The fear is that fake research papers written partly or entirely by programs like ChatGPT will find their way into the scientific literature.

Earlier this year a team from the University of Chicago and Northwestern University in Illinois trained ChatGPT to generate fake research abstracts based on papers published in high-impact journals. They ran these phoney papers and the original ones through a plagiarism detector and AI output detector, and separately had human reviewers try to distinguish which were generated and which were real.

In the study, plagiarism-detection tools couldn’t differentiate between real and fraudulent abstracts, but free tools like GPT-2 Output Detector were able to successfully determine whether text was written by a human or a bot. However, the human reviewers were only able to recognise the ChatGPT-generated papers 68% of the time, and they erroneously identified 14% of real abstracts as counterfeits.]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_WA laboratory discovery environmental</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/orange-county-news/fire-at-unc-med-school-lab-building-damages-multiple-floors/">
    <title>Fire damages multiple floors of UNC medical school lab building</title>
    <dc:date>2023-03-17T10:59:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/orange-county-news/fire-at-unc-med-school-lab-building-damages-multiple-floors/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WNCN) — A lab building at the UNC School of Medicine suffered extensive smoke and water damage from a Wednesday night fire.

The Chapel Hill Fire Department responded shortly before 11 p.m. to the report of a structure fire at Marsico Hall at 125 Mason Farm Road.

The first crew confirmed a working structure fire at the multi-story laboratory building and called for a second one, according to a news release from the town.

Firefighters extinguished the parts of the blaze that could not be reached by the sprinkler system. Multiple floors were damaged.

There were no injuries.

In total, 32 firefighters responded to the call, including crews from Carrboro, North Chatham, and Durham fire departments. Orange County Emergency Services and South Orange Rescue Squad also assisted with the incident.

UNC-Chapel Hill’s environment, health and safety department is investigating the cause of the fire. The remaining crews cleared the scene by 5 a.m. Thursday.]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_NC laboratory fire response unknown_chemical</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vnews.com/Remsen-Medical-Sciences-Building-mostly-reopened-following-fire-last-month-50293275">
    <title>Dartmouth medical science building largely reopen after Feb. 26 fire</title>
    <dc:date>2023-03-17T10:58:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vnews.com/Remsen-Medical-Sciences-Building-mostly-reopened-following-fire-last-month-50293275</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[HANOVER — The Remsen Medical Sciences Building at Dartmouth College in Hanover has largely reopened following smoke and water damage incurred during a late February fire, according to a Tuesday update posted to Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth’s website. 

Floors one through four have reopened and restoration work continues on the building’s remaining floors, and the fifth and sixth floors are expected to reopen soon, but there is still no timeline for when the building’s seventh floor will reopen.

The Feb. 26 fire broke out in a laboratory on the seventh floor of the building located at 66 College St. in Hanover. It was caused by an electrical malfunction in equipment used for molecular biology research the lab, according to the Geisel post.

“The lab that was affected by the fire is going to require a great deal of attention in terms of safety, remediation, and planning,” Ben Jorgensen, director of Facilities at Geisel, said in the post. “We’ve begun that process, and we’re supporting the relocation of the investigator’s research to the adjacent building so that his research can continue while restoration is underway.”

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<item rdf:about="https://www.edhat.com/news/hazmat-fire-response-at-uc-santa-barbara-lab">
    <title>Hazmat Fire Response at UC Santa Barbara Lab</title>
    <dc:date>2023-03-07T11:38:48+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hazardous Materials Team responds to UC Santa Barbara on Monday morning for a reported chemical waste fire.

At 10:59 a.m., Santa Barbara County and Santa Barbara City firefighter Hazmat teams responded to Elings Hall, Building 226, in Isla Vista.

Crews on the scene prepared for a Level A entry into the building for chemical sampling and testing, meaning an encapsulated suit was required to enter.

The County Fire Department provided an update stating it was a fire in a chemical waste storange container. The building's alarm sounded with sprinker activation.

Approximatley 70 people inside the building self-evacuationed and there were no injuries.

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<item rdf:about="https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/students-evacuated-fire-breaks-out-26346966">
    <title>Students evacuated as fire breaks out at university science lab</title>
    <dc:date>2023-02-28T11:47:39+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Students had to evacuate a building at the University of Warwick after a fire broke out in the Physics building yesterday afternoon. Flames were reportedly seen shooting from the top of the building.

Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service hazmat teams attended the scene of the fire. The University of Warwick say that the blaze started in a battery testing chamber when a lithium ion battery caught fire.

The University also said that following the fire, the Physics building will be closed today (February 28) as a precaution. In a statement, the University of Warwick said: "An incident in our EIC secure battery testing chamber resulted in a lithium ion car battery pack catching fire.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2023/02/24/university-delaware-lab-evacuation-questions-explosive-chemical/69911628007/">
    <title>University of Delaware lab evacuation leaves questions unanswered</title>
    <dc:date>2023-02-25T12:51:45+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Two weeks after a "safety-related incident" in the University of Delaware's Lammot du Pont Laboratory led to the evacuation of six buildings and a police-led "controlled detonation" on The Green in Newark, UD officials have provided an update on the incident with slightly more information.

However, details about what exactly led to this incident and what was occurring at the lab remain unknown to the public.

Here's what we can answer − and what we can't.

What do we know about what happened?

Researchers in the Lammot du Pont Laboratory "inadvertently produced a small amount of a shock-sensitive explosive chemical" on Feb. 8, according to the university.

Delaware State Police's explosive ordnance disposal unit removed the chemicals from the lab on Wednesday and took them to a "safe location" on the South Green for a "controlled detonation" at 5:45 p.m. There were no reported injuries, and all evacuated buildings were reopened for classes the following day.

What new information did the University of Delaware's update provide?

The University of Delaware said on Wednesday that the explosive chemical was created when a student "incorrectly mixed chemicals" in the lab. The student "immediately realized" and reported the error, according to UD, and police and UD Environmental Health and Safety were called.

The university also said it is "learning from the incident to further enhance lab safety protocols," but provided no details or clarifications.

Have incidents like this happened before?

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    <title>Fire at Clarkson University lab</title>
    <dc:date>2023-02-21T11:41:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[POTSDAM -- Potsdam firefighters responded to a blaze at a Clarkson University laboratory on Sunday morning.

Potsdam Fire received an automatic dialer for an alarm activation at the Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP) and Rowley Laboratories shortly after 8 a.m., fire officials said.
Engine 49 responded immediately driven by Fire Driver Matthew Kroeger, arriving on scene within minutes.

Firefighters reportedly met with Clarkson Security and began searching the building to locate a fire.

The fire appeared to be contained to a trash can, which was found to be inside one of the laboratories.

Kroeger quickly extinguished the fire with an ABC extinguisher on scene. Due to the amount of smoke inside the laboratory, Kroeger requested a second alarm and manpower to the scene.

Firefighter James Corbett brought R-14 and additional members responded to the scene, officials said.

The smoke was cleared from the laboratory and the alarm reset with no issues.

Potsdam Fire turned the scene over to Clarkson Security for investigation.

All units were back in service at 8:53 a.m.

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    <title>University of Delaware labs reopen after explosive accidentally synthesised by student</title>
    <dc:date>2023-02-15T11:48:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/university-of-delaware-labs-reopen-after-explosive-accidentally-synthesised-by-student/4016984.article</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Several laboratories and buildings on the University of Delaware’s campus reopened for classes and resumed normal operations on 9 February, following evacuations and then a controlled detonation of ‘a small amount of a shock-sensitive explosive chemical’ inadvertently produced at a research lab on campus the previous day.

The evacuations were in response to a report from the University of Delaware’s Environmental Health and Safety office. The Delaware State Police investigated the materials, removed them from the building and transferred them to a safe outdoor location where they were ‘neutralised’ on the evening of 8 February, the university announced.


‘This was an isolated incident, and there is no threat to campus health or safety,’ the University of Delaware said. ‘No injuries were reported.’ The school declined to release further details of what was exploded and why or what reaction was being run. Chatter on social media suggested that a chemistry graduate student accidentally made triacetone triperoxide, also known as TATP, which is synthesised from acetone, hydrogen peroxide and an acid. A graduate student at the University of Bristol inadvertently made 30–40g of TATP in 2017, requiring a bomb disposal team to dispose of the material.

‘Our safety people did a top-notch job and responded quickly. It was just so sudden and unexpected,’ tweeted Mike Axiotes, an undergraduate student in the University of Delaware’s chemistry department. ‘We were talking about vinyl chloride burn in subgroups as a safety/making reactions count talk and then boom (pun intended) we’re being evacuated 3 hours later.’

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    <title>US accelerator accident hospitalises worker, delays XFEL startup</title>
    <dc:date>2023-02-10T11:43:31+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The turn-on of the world’s fastest and brightest x-ray free electron laser (XFEL) has been delayed by an accident that left a worker injured and hospitalised on the morning of 27 December 2022. A spokesperson for the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the US says that the cause was an ‘electrical incident during maintenance activities involving high voltage equipment’. According to the San Francisco Standard a high-voltage electric arc struck an electrician who was shutting down power to the lab and disfigured them.

Mike Dunne, director of the SLAC Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) XFEL, said the incident happened during the facility’s annual closure during the Christmas and new year period. At a public meeting at the Royal Society in London, UK on 30 January, he said that the situation was ‘very unfortunate and troubling’.

Dunne is leading the LCLS-II upgrade, which he said at the Royal Society had taken 10 years and cost just over $1 billion (£820 million) in total. The upgrade to the XFEL will increase the frequency and brightness of its x-ray pulses 10,000-fold. Combined with the fact that x-ray wavelengths are about the size of an atom, the improvements will enable experiments to study important chemical processes with remarkable time resolution. Studies including spectroscopy and diffraction will be able to follow reactions and produce molecular movies capturing details lasting a few femtoseconds, or quadrillionths-of-a-second.

Dunne noted that the accident wasn’t directly related to LCLS-II. He added that everyone that worked at SLAC was still recovering from the consequences. ‘As a lab, we have to reflect on how a serious accident happened and what it means for our programmes,’ Dunne commented. The US Department of Energy is now investigating the incident and will issue a report in coming months, the SLAC spokesperson says.

In an article in New Scientist in December 2022, Dunne said that he had hoped that LCLS-II would produce its first record-breaking x-rays in February or March 2023. At the Royal Society meeting he said that the LCLS-II team was now projecting late April for turn-on.

Safety complaints
The San Francisco Standard obtained details issued in a report from the DOE, which in August 2022 awarded Stanford University a $3 billion five-year contract to run SLAC. The report states that co-workers heard the electrical arc, rushed to the scene, and called emergency services.

A separate DOE notice says that the electrician was working on the wrong part of the circuit, the Standard reports. ‘In addition, the injured worker was not wearing the required shock hazard and arc flash hazard [personal protective equipment] at the time of the incident,’ the notice continues.

However, the latest incident follows a series of accidents and complaints about safety at SLAC, the Standard reports, including a ‘significant hand injury’ to an employee operating machinery in April 2022. ‘The lab has worked to respond to safety incidents with both immediate and long-term actions to ensure the ongoing safety of all conducting work onsite,’ a SLAC spokesperson tells Chemistry World.

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    <title>Teacher, Students Injured In Lab Explosion At Delhi College</title>
    <dc:date>2023-02-10T11:35:36+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[New Delhi: A teacher and two students of Dyal Singh College were injured in a small explosion during a laboratory experiment, an official said.
Guest teacher Dr Nisha Agarwal and two girl students were injured in the accident.

Ms Agarwal has been admitted in AIIMS Trauma Centre while the students were sent home after first aid in the college, Delhi University constituent.

The teacher was demonstrating the distillation method in organic chemistry to a first-year BSc (Physical Science) class, students said.

During the experiment, the flask's temperature increased when Agarwal poured mercury into the chemical, leading to the explosion.

Ms Agarwal suffered serious injuries, including burns to her face.

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    <title>One person treated for injuries after hydrochloric acid spill at UAB building</title>
    <dc:date>2023-02-10T11:33:53+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBMA) — One person was injured during a chemical spill at a University of Alabama at Birmingham building Thursday afternoon.

A university spokesperson says a hydrochloric acid spill resulted in the evacuation of the 8th floor in the Bevill Biomedical Research Building.

Birmingham Fire and Rescue responded to the incident and said the injured person was treated for minor burns to their foot.

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    <title>Physicists fire a dangerously powerful laser down their corridor in the middle of the night</title>
    <dc:date>2023-01-22T12:48:44+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What happens when physicists decide that their lab is too small? Some start to fire powerful lasers down the corridor in the middle of the night.

This wasn’t just a bunch of undergraduates playing laser skirmish when they got bored.

The US researchers had been investigating “optical guiding”: a method of directing light through air, which could be used for long-range laser communication.

They’d shown that this works over distances smaller than a metre, but they couldn’t expand their reach because their lab was too small, and the extremely powerful laser they used couldn’t be easily moved.

Their solution? Make a hole in the wall and fire the laser into the 50-metre long hallway.

“There were major challenges: the huge scale-up to 50 metres forced us to reconsider the fundamental physics of air waveguide generation, plus wanting to send a high-power laser down a 50-meter-long public hallway naturally triggers major safety issues,” says Professor Howard Milchberg, a physicist at the University of Maryland, US.


Left to right: Eric Rosenthal, a physicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory; Anthony Valenzuela, a physicist at the U.S. Army Research Lab; and Andrew Goffin, a UMD electrical and computer engineering graduate student, align optics at a porthole in the wall in order to send the laser beam from the lab down the hallway. Credit: Intense Laser-Matter Interactions Lab, UMD
“Fortunately, we got excellent cooperation from both the Physics (Department) and from the Maryland environmental safety office!”

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    <title>Advanced Technique-Based Combination of Innovation Education and Safety Education in Higher Education</title>
    <dc:date>2023-01-06T14:05:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00568</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The essence of higher education is to cultivate innovative talents for the society. Hence, higher education institutions (HEIs), on the one hand, need to respond to social needs and government policies. On the other hand, they need to keep pace with the times and improve the details of teaching to improve the effectiveness of education. In this paper, several combination education examples in HEIs about safety education and innovation education are shown to encourage students to realize innovations in technique during their laboratory experiments on electrospinning. To obtain professional knowledge and traditional professional skills, students are taught to implement electrospinning, an advanced technique for treating polymers, in the research laboratory. Safety education is also taught, during which the students are encouraged to play their subjective roles and ponder on how to apply innovations for safe, effective, and innovative implementation. The students apply a series of small technological innovations for the spinneret, which is the most innovative part of an electrospinning system. They can modify the spinneret for safer, more energy-saving, and more convenient operations of the single-fluid blending, coaxial, triaxial, and side-by-side electrospinning processes. Moreover, the innovations can deepen their professional knowledge of electrospinning and stimulate their enjoyment of innovations. Safety education on electrospinning can be a powerful tool for promoting technological innovations in students and increasing their awareness of related safety issues. The reported protocols in this paper show a new way for conducting combined education in HEIs on advanced techniques.

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<dc:subject>China laboratory discovery environmental plastics</dc:subject>
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    <title>Christ Church Secondary closed until Monday after lab combustion</title>
    <dc:date>2023-01-05T11:42:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/01/05/news/guyana/christ-church-secondary-closed-until-monday-after-lab-combustion/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Christ Church Secondary School will be closed for the remainder of the week after a chemical release resulting in combustion occurred in the school’s Science laboratory.

The Guyana Fire and Rescue Service rushed to the school around 4:30 pm yesterday after receiving information that smoke was emanating from the building. According to the Chief Fire Officer, Gregory Wickham, although initially believing it was a fire, investigations found that several chemicals being stored in the Science laboratory were released and caused a combustion.

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    <title>4 dead, one hurt in Vizag pharma city fire mishap</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-27T11:47:10+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[VISHAKHAPATNAM: Four persons died on the spot and another received serious burn injuries when an explosion followed by fire engulfed the unit 3 of Laurus Laboratory in JN Pharma City on Monday evening.

This comes under Anakapalli district and about 4km from Visakhapatnam.

The dead were Rambabu Bingi (32) of Khammam, Rajesh Babu Talasila (36) of Guntur, Ramakrishna Rapeti (30) of K Kotapadu of Anakapalli district and Majji Venkata Rao (28) of Chodavaram Anakapalli district.

Y Satish of Ranagareddy district, who was seriously injured, has been admitted to a corporate hospital here.

“We have received four bodies from Pharma City,’’ confirmed superintendent of King George Hospital Dr P Mythili.

Deputy inspector factories, V Suresh, said the fire was caused by the leakage of toluene solvent. When the workers were trying to arrest the leakage of toluene, the chemical caught fire.]]></description>
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    <title>Nitrosamine Risk Assessments in Oligonucleotides</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-27T11:45:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.oprd.2c00330</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The European Medicines Agency, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and other regulatory agencies expect that all pharmaceutical products be assessed for the potential presence of N-nitrosoamine (nitrosamine) impurities. This white paper addresses general considerations for nitrosamine risk assessments of oligonucleotide products. The authors propose a general risk assessment platform which should facilitate safe, consistent development of new treatments and alignment with regulatory expectations.

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    <title>Mercury spill leads to hazardous material found at 7 homes, school</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-25T11:50:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bhpioneer.com/local_news/mercury-spill-leads-to-hazardous-material-found-at-7-homes-school/article_2b224b2c-82fb-11ed-b297-0f22e1d54be5.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[LEAD — Hazardous material crews continue to clean mercury spilled at Lead-Deadwood High School on Dec. 12.

Additionally, seven homes of students were screened and all tested positive for mercury. Two of the homes required some clothing and book bags removed. One more home will have materials that need to be removed.

Three homes had minimal levels and no action was required. An additional home requires additional screening, according to a report on the matter filed by the Environmental Protection Agency.

The level of mercury at the home of the student who brought the mercury to school was at hazardous levels. The report indicated that, “an unknown amount of elemental mercury from three bottles had spilled in a bedroom,” and that multiple beads of mercury ranging in size from “pinhead to dime” were found.

The mercury came from the belongings of a relative of the student’s who worked at a mine. Elemental mercury is used in various mining operations, including gold extraction. That student brought the mercury to school to show fellow students.

At the high school, mercury was spilled in the chemistry laboratory. It was also found in the art room. Initial air readings at the school indicated elevated levels.]]></description>
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    <title>Hazmat Called After DEA Raids DMT Lab</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-24T12:03:53+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Task Force Team #2 of the DEA raided a DMT lab this morning on the top floor of “Steele Building Lofts”.

The SDFD HazMat and SD County HazMat teams were called in for the clean-up of the lab.

It’s not known how many people were arrested in the raid.

DMT — or N, N-dimethyltryptamine in medical talk — is a hallucinogenic tryptamine drug.

Sometimes referred to as Dimitri, this drug produces effects similar to those of psychedelics, like LSD and magic mushrooms.

DMT is a Schedule I controlled substance in the United States, which means it’s illegal to make, buy, possess, or distribute it.

Some cities have recently decriminalized it, but it’s still illegal under state and federal law.5.

DMT is a newly arrived narcotic to the San Diego area.

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    <title>Massive fire breaks out at chemical lab of IISER</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-23T11:44:31+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A massive fire broke out in the chemistry lab of  Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) at Bakania Bhori of the state capital on Thursday afternoon which spread rapidly due to the large amount of chemicals and engulfed the entire lab.

The fire broke at around 4 pm on Thursday and it was pacified  after about two and a half hours of hard efforts. About 15 fire tender vehicles of Bairagarh, Gandhinagar, Chirayu Hospital were engaged in pacifying the fire.

To douse the fire, the wall of the building was broken with JCB. Due to the chemical, there was a problem in pacifying the fire. It was found that there is difficulty in breathing due to the smoke arising due to the chemical.

According to Fire Officer Sajid Khan, preliminary investigation has revealed that chemical reaction may have caused the fire. However, the cause of the fire will be clear only after the investigation.

Khan said that it took more than two and a half hours to pacify the fire. Although smoke is coming out now, due to which we were not able to go inside.

Different types of chemicals are kept in large quantities in the lab. Fire personnel had to face difficulty in extinguishing the fire due to chemical fire. Due to the presence of dangerous chemicals, precautions are also being taken. The employees who reached to extinguish the fire told that due to the fire, more smoke is coming out. It is suffocating and is not able to go inside. Due to this also there was delay in extinguishing the fire. Khajurikalan police also reached the spot. At the same time, the SDRF team was also present.

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<dc:subject>India laboratory fire response unknown_chemical</dc:subject>
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    <title>Safer and Convenient Synthesis of 3,4-Bis(4-nitro-1,2,5-oxadiazol-3-yl)-1,2,5-oxadiazole-2-oxide (BNFF/DNTF)</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-20T11:20:50+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A safer, convenient, and scalable synthesis for 3,4-bis(4-nitro-1,2,5-oxadiazol-3-yl)-1,2,5-oxadiazole-2-oxide (BNFF or DNTF) is described. The obtained products were fully characterized and further confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The reaction process of tandem nitration–cyclization was optimized, and the thermal stability of the optimal reaction system was studied. 3-Amino-4-(carboxymethyl)furazan is oxidized and then treated with dilute mixed acid (HNO3 and H2SO4) to obtain BNFF in a yield of 52% and a purity of 99% after liquid chromatography analysis. Compared with some previously reported multistep methods that relied on high-concentration hydrogen peroxide solutions and suffered from dangerous exothermic profiles, this new method used to synthesize BNFF promises to be safer and more efficient.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>China laboratory discovery environmental hydrogen_peroxide nitric_acid sulfuric_acid</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://ottawa.citynews.ca/local-news/hazmat-team-finds-elevated-carbon-monoxide-levels-at-medical-lab-6264131">
    <title>HazMat team finds elevated carbon monoxide levels at medical lab</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-18T12:02:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://ottawa.citynews.ca/local-news/hazmat-team-finds-elevated-carbon-monoxide-levels-at-medical-lab-6264131</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ottawa Fire Services responded to a call from the Dynacare medical services lab on Peter Morand Crescent, east of the The Ottawa Hospital General Campus, after a report of a propane smell in the building.

An individual from the lab called Ottawa Fires Services (OFS) around 7:53 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 16, reporting the five people in the lab could smell propane and were experiencing symptoms of "watering eyes." The building was evacuated and the OFS Hazadous Materials (HazMat) team dispatched.

The HazMat team discovered elevated levels of carbon monoxide in the building, peaking at 30 part per million. An acceptable level of carbon monoxide is considered to be less than 25 parts per million as an average over an eight hour period, according to the Ontario regulation for occupational exposure limits.

A fire crew inspecting the roof found a faulty heating system to be the cause. The system was shut down and tagged for inspection.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>Canada laboratory release injury carbon_monoxide propane</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://menafn.com/1105293698/Person-Dies-In-Fire-At-University-In-Iran-VIDEO">
    <title>Person Dies In Fire At University In Iran (VIDEO)</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-11T12:28:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://menafn.com/1105293698/Person-Dies-In-Fire-At-University-In-Iran-VIDEO</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 10. One person died and one was injured in a fire that broke out in the chemical laboratory of the Isfahan Industrial University in Isfahan province of Iran, Director General of the Isfahan Provincial Emergency Department Mansur Shisheforush said, trend reports.

According to him, at 19:38 local time, 12 fire brigades were called to the scene, the fire was extinguished.

A provincial official said the cause of the fire is under investigation.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Iran laboratory fire death unknown_chemical</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.lowellsun.com/2022/12/09/fire-in-chelmsford-medical-equipment-lab-under-investigation/">
    <title>Fire in Chelmsford medical equipment lab under investigation</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-10T13:00:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.lowellsun.com/2022/12/09/fire-in-chelmsford-medical-equipment-lab-under-investigation/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[CHELMSFORD — Firefighters responded to an explosion inside a lab at Teleflex, an emergency medical equipment provider, located at 16 Elizabeth Drive, on Thursday night.

There were no injuries as a result of the incident, which is under investigation, Chelmsford Fire Chief Gary Ryan said in an email to The Sun.

Firefighters were dispatched to the Teleflex building for reports of an explosion shortly before 10:10 p.m. Thursday. Ryan said crews arrived on scene to find “a smoke condition” and water emanating from a first-floor lab room.

“Upon entry into the lab room, the room was charred, and the fire was controlled by the activated sprinkler system,” Ryan said.

He added a technician at the scene was fortunately uninjured during the incident.

Fire investigators discovered flammable liquids used in the medical manufacturing process, which Ryan said might have been involved in the spread of the flames.

According to their website, Teleflex, which has 14,000 employees worldwide, is “a global provider of medical technologies designed to improve the health and quality of people’s lives.”

“Due to the critical nature of providing emergency medical equipment and supplies, it is imperative that we understand why this incident happened and work to prevent future occurrences,” Ryan said.

Ryan said the lab will require extensive repairs and will remain closed during the investigation.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_MA laboratory explosion response flammables</dc:subject>
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    <title>'Operation Bad Chemistry' Mass Casualty Drill Held In Southampton</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-08T11:03:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://patch.com/pennsylvania/lowersouthampton/operation-bad-chemistry-mass-casualty-drill-held-southampton</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[SOUTHAMPTON, NY — Communication and preparation are key in a mass casualty incident situation. To that end, the Southampton Fire Department hosted a multi-agency tabletop training, "Operation Bad Chemistry," to help first responders prepare for an actual life-threatening emergency in the village.

The training, hosted at the Southampton Fire Department Friday, tested current mass casualty plans in a controlled environment. The goal was to test local response plans and determine deficiencies that need to be addressed and improved upon, officials said.

"Operation Bad Chemistry" focused on what would happen should a complex fire in the chemistry lab break out in Southampton High School.

"The scenario was developed from an automatic fire alarm, to a hazardous material incident with affected students due to an incident in the chemistry lab during class," officials said.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_NY laboratory discovery environmental unknown_chemical</dc:subject>
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    <title>Understudied class of PFAS found in healthcare facilities</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-08T10:59:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://cen.acs.org/environment/persistent-pollutants/Understudied-class-PFAS-found-healthcare/100/web/2022/12</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Researchers have detected an understudied class of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), known as fluorotelomer ethoxylates (FTEOs), in indoor dust and industrial wastewater samples collected across two provinces in Canada. They found the highest concentrations of FTEOs in dust found in healthcare settings, such as a hospital, a pharmacy, and a medical school, and in effluent produced at a healthcare linen cleaning facility (Environ. Int. 2022, DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107634).
According to the study’s lead author Karl Jobst, an environmental chemist at Memorial University of Newfoundland, investigating the prevalence of FTEOs in healthcare facilities complements previous work done by other groups, which have identified these potentially persistent fluorinated compounds in fabric stain repellents and anti-fogging agents (Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 2014, DOI: 10.1007/s00216-014-7862-0). “We certainly hypothesized that these compounds could be widespread,” says Nicholas Herkert, an environmental scientist at Duke University who detected FTEOs in anti-fog sprays earlier this year (Environ. Sci. Technol. 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c06990). “But so little research has been done on FTEOs to date, we were ultimately uncertain.”
Jobst’s study is the first to confirm Herkert’s suspicions. To measure FTEOs in the dust and wastewater samples, Jobst and his colleagues attached a mass spectrometer to a gas chromatograph using an atmospheric pressure chemical ionization source. According to Jobst, this analytical setup can detect FTEOs more easily than liquid chromatography, the primary method for detecting PFAS in environmental samples. He suspects that the prevalence of liquid chromatography in PFAS analysis prevented scientists from detecting FTEOs in the environment prior to this study.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Canada laboratory discovery environmental other_chemical dust dye</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.riograndesun.com/news/los-alamos-lab-explosion-worries-residents/article_67f1e2fc-75cb-11ed-bd42-1f29673cd8af.html">
    <title>Los Alamos Lab Explosion Worries Residents</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-07T11:36:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.riograndesun.com/news/los-alamos-lab-explosion-worries-residents/article_67f1e2fc-75cb-11ed-bd42-1f29673cd8af.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An explosion conducted by Los Alamos National Laboratory last week alarmed residents across the Española Valley, some of who called law enforcement to report the blast, officials said. 

The explosion happened around 12:15 p.m. on Nov.  30, according to the Los Alamos County Police Department. 

The agency “received numerous calls about a loud explosion” and confirmed the laboratory “conducted a routine detonation,” police said in a Facebook post.

According to a laboratory spokesperson, the facility “conducted a high explosive shot as part of a training exercise.”

The sound from the shot, helped along by atmospheric conditions and wind direction, carried toward Los Alamos neighborhoods—and beyond. 

“All operational parameters for the exercise were within specified limits,” the spokesperson said. 

]]></description>
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    <title>UPDATE: HTHS students back in class following fire, no damage to school</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-01T11:41:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.trussvilletribune.com/2022/11/30/breaking-trussville-fire-rescue-responds-science-lab-fire-at-hewitt-trussville-high-school-3/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Hewitt-Trussville High School students are back in class after Trussville Fire and Rescue extinguished a fire in one of the science labs. The school building was not damaged during the fire. All students are safe.

From The Tribune staff reports

TRUSSVILLE — The Trussville Fire and Rescue responded to a fire in one of the science labs at Hewitt-Trussville High School on Wednesday, Nov. 30, around 8:30 a.m.

Students and faculty were evacuated. Trussville Fire and Rescue is on the scene.

The fire has reportedly been extinguished.

The story will be updated when more information is available. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_AL laboratory fire response unknown_chemical</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.murrayledger.com/news/pologruto-state-fire-marshal-investigating-explosion-at-msu-chemistry-building/article_8f4240e4-710d-11ed-ae21-8ff5dcdb8552.html">
    <title>Pologruto: State fire marshal investigating explosion at MSU chemistry building</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-01T11:40:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.murrayledger.com/news/pologruto-state-fire-marshal-investigating-explosion-at-msu-chemistry-building/article_8f4240e4-710d-11ed-ae21-8ff5dcdb8552.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[MURRAY – The Kentucky state fire marshal’s office will be investigating a chemical explosion that occurred in a Murray State University chemistry lab Tuesday, according to Murray Fire Chief Eric Pologruto.

Shortly before 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Murray State’s social media accounts said MSU Police were responding to a “chemical leak” at the chemistry building, Jesse D. Jones Hall. The post said emergency responders were on the scene, and people were warned to stay out of the area until further notice. Almost two hours later, the university said there was “no immediate danger” to the chemistry building at that time, and the outdoor area of the Gene W. Ray Science Campus was open again. The three science complex buildings remained closed for the rest of the day, canceling classes there.

Tuesday evening, the university’s social media accounts posted another update, saying that three individuals who had been inside the building had been treated at Murray-Calloway County Hospital before being released. Classes were back in session Wednesday, but the university said there would be no laboratory activities in the chemistry building that day.

Pologruto said the initial call to the Murray Fire Department came in as a fire alarm, but firefighters learned more when they arrived at the scene.

“When we had been there for maybe a few minutes, someone actually walked up to one of our drivers of the fire truck, one of the pump operators who was still outside, and informed them, ‘Hey, there's actually been an explosion inside,’” Pologruto said. “It kind of caught everyone off guard a little bit since they were originally going there for what they thought was just a fire alarm. The fire alarm system did go off; however, the fact that we were there when we were told there was actually an explosion changed everything for us pretty quick.

“We got some more background information and found out that a chemistry class was going on when the explosion occurred, and then that turned it into a hazardous materials call for us. So we had to get our HAZMAT trailer and our HAZMAT technicians to the scene to mobilize our hazardous materials team. Our initial efforts were focused on evacuation of the building, and once we achieved that, we met with the chemistry professors that were in charge. I found out a little bit more about the chemical that was involved, and from there, we developed a plan on how we thought best to neutralize the chemical that was there and to ventilate the area to ensure that we didn't have any secondary explosions. We did that alongside the professors and we were able to render the scene safe.”

Pologruto said the chemical involved was lithium aluminum hydride.

“It’s a common chemical that they use in labs, but the byproduct of that when it's heated is hydrogen gas,” Pologruto said. “It’s not an atypical substance that they use in the lab, and according to the professors, they use it all the time for their experiments and lab work education. They just had a problem with it this time. Thankfully (it only resulted in a minor injury).”

]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_KY laboratory follow-up environmental hydrogen</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/local/2022/11/30/part-of-uo-campus-evacuated-on-tuesday-for-minor-chemical-spill/69689420007/">
    <title>Part of UO campus evacuated on Tuesday for minor chemical spill</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-01T11:37:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/local/2022/11/30/part-of-uo-campus-evacuated-on-tuesday-for-minor-chemical-spill/69689420007/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Eugene Springfield Fire responded to a minor chemical spill at a lab on the University of Oregon campus around 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

First responders evacuated four buildings, including Pacific, Lawrence, Onyx Bridge and Columbia, according to a statement from the UO.

The chemical that was spilled was beta-mercaptoethanol, according to Kelsey Hunter, the Eugene Springfield Fire Department's spokesperson. The chemical produces a strong smell, and first responders worked to clear the odor from the buildings, Hunter said.

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<dc:subject>us_OR laboratory follow-up response other_chemical</dc:subject>
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    <title>Breaking: Students evacuated from multiple halls due to chemical spill</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-30T11:35:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.dailyemerald.com/news/breaking-students-evacuated-from-multiple-halls-due-to-chemical-spill/article_d4e1c8ca-7042-11ed-a7b5-0789ac8e9d65.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Eugene police and the Eugene Springfield Fire Department evacuated people in Pacific, Columbia and Lawrence Hall at the University of Oregon for a chemical spill Tuesday around 3:30 p.m., according to police. Onyx Bridge was also evacuated. 

Students said they were in class when an alarm rang and they were told to exit the building. Some students still have their belongings stuck inside.

Police taped off the entrance to the walkway leading to Allen and Pacific Hall. The fire department said the buildings will be evacuated for at least the rest of the Tuesday. 

According to the fire department, a lab technician dropped a bottle of a chemical, causing it to vaporize. The chemical spilled is a hazardous, denatured protein. According to the fire department, the contaminated building is currently designated as a hazardous material zone. 

Police said the incident occurred on the third floor of Pacific Hall.

The technician was de-contaminated and is being transported to the hospital as a precautionary measure. She appears to have no injuries at this time, according to the fire department. 

]]></description>
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    <title>West Kentucky Star</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-30T11:34:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.westkentuckystar.com/News/Local-Regional/Chemical-leak-on-Murray-State-campus</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A small explosion in a chemistry lab was reported on the Murray State University campus Tuesday.

Shawn Touney, the Executive Director of Marketing and Communication at Murray State told West Kentucky Star that MSU Police responded to a report of a chemical leak at the Chemistry Building. Touney said there were three people in the building that were treated and released from a local hospital.

The Chemistry, Biology, and School of Engineering/Engineering and Physics buildings were closed for the remainder of Tuesday. Classes in Gene W. Ray Science Campus buildings will resume as normal on Wednesday, although there will be no lab activities in the Chemistry Building.
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    <title>UArizona Health Sciences receives grant to study PFAS mitigation in firefighters' blood</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-29T11:49:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://news.azpm.org/p/newsc/2022/11/28/213908-uarizona-health-sciences-receives-grant-to-study-pfas-mitigation-in-firefighters-blood/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Researchers at University of Arizona Health Sciences will use a $4 million grant to study a possible treatment for exposure to forever chemicals in firefighters.

The Arizona Board of Regents grant will fund a three-year study that will examine firefighters who have elevated levels of per-and-poly fluoro chemicals, also known as PFAS or forever chemicals, in their blood and get them to donate either blood or plasma on a regular basis.

Professor Jeff Burgess said a similar study was done in Australia, and found that regular donations did decrease PFAS levels.

"The question that we don't know is whether or not reducing those levels will also reduce their risk of the diseases and other health conditions that are associated with elevated PFAS exposure," he said.

Exposure to PFAS and other hazardous materials while firefighting has been classified as carcinogenic by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, and Dr. Burgess said firefighters often have two to three times as many PFAS in their blood as the general population.

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    <title>University of California strike impacts chemists</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-26T13:09:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers at all 10 University of California (UC) campuses are on strike, a move that is impacting many chemists and chemistry departments.
The strike, which began Nov. 14, is over alleged unfair labor practices by UC, which the union representing the students and postdocs says is not negotiating new contracts in good faith. The larger issues underlying the contract negotiations center on wages and benefits for UC’s graduate students, teaching assistants, postdocs, and academic researchers, who fuel much of the UC system’s research and teaching. The union, the United Auto Workers, represents 48,000 academic workers on the campuses, making the strike the largest in higher education in US history.
“Clearly, 48,000 people across the state are really fired up about this,” says Khalid Mahmood, a chemistry graduate student at UC Berkeley.
Mahmood, who lives with six roommates, says that 40% of his income goes toward rent. In addition, there is little consistency in salary between departments or even from semester to semester. “We really care about our research, but we want the contributions that we make to the university to be reflected in our compensation,” he says.
So far, effects on departments are unclear. At UC Irvine, Chemistry Department chair Douglas J. Tobias says the effect on classes appears highly variable. “In some cases, it’s had a major impact, whereas in other cases, it’s had zero impact,” he says. But Tobias says he isn’t allowed to ask faculty members whether their students are teaching or coming to the lab, and faculty can’t ask students anything about the strike, in order to avoid the perception of intimidation. That has made responding to the strike difficult, he says.
The union has already filed a complaint against Tobias for sending an email telling students that they are expected to continue attending classes and doing their research in their role as students; the email was based on information he received from the university administration. A similar complaint has been filed against UC San Diego’s chemistry department.
Graduate students and postdocs in the US have been increasingly discontent with their salaries and benefits. While this strike isn’t the first, it is particularly important, says Holden Thorp, editor in chief of the Science family of journals and a former university administrator. “You’ve got 10 of the most powerful research universities in the world, all dealing with this at the same time.”
The strike reflects how the US research system is designed to rely on graduate students and postdocs, Thorp says. Research labs keep getting bigger, especially in the life sciences, but there aren’t enough jobs in science for all those future professionals, he adds. The growing frustration means that “the workforce is not going to be there if these things don’t get straightened out,” Thorp says.
Hannah Freund, a bioinformatics graduate student at UC Riverside, says they were fearful when they first heard about the strike because, like many of their colleagues, they cannot afford to stop working. It helped to know that striking workers would get some compensation from the UAW, but the the longer-term concerns over wages and benefits are what really drove Freund to join the picket lines. The union is also asking for childcare for academic workers with dependents, public transportation subsidies, and protections against bullying and harassment.
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    <title>Lithium battery fire at RIT; no serious injuries</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-21T11:53:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.whec.com/top-news/firefighters-at-rit-for-possible-battery-fire/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[UPDATE: At 3:17 p.m. on Sunday Henrietta Fire District units were dispatched to the Nathaniel Rochester Hall on the RIT campus for a reported lithium ion battery fire on the 8th floor.  Crews arrived to find a fire in a work area, on the 8th floor.  It took about 30 minutes to bring the fire under control.  There were no serious injuries.  Due to the volatile nature of lithium ion batteries, a hazardous materials incident was also declared.  This is now a common practice due to the chemical reactions involved with these fires.  The battery in question today was for an “E Bike” type scooter.  These types of batteries have caused several fatal fires in the NYC area.  Assistance was provided at the scene by the City of Rochester FD, Gates FD, CHS EMS and the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.

UPDATE: RIT said it was a small fire that started in a lab in Nathaniel Rochester Hall where some students were working. There was minor water damage. There were no injuries, and no students were displaced.

HENRIETTA, N.Y. – Henrietta firefighters are on the scene of a possible fire from a Lithium ion battery at RIT. The fire has been knocked down and is under control.
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    <title>25 college students fall ill after chemical gas leak in Hyderabad</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-19T12:09:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.dtnext.in/national/2022/11/18/25-college-students-fall-ill-after-chemical-gas-leak-in-hyderabad</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[HYDERABAD: As many as 25 students suffered from giddiness and fell ill after an alleged chemical gas leak in a lab in Hyderabad's Kasturba Government College.

Affected students were rushed to the hospital and as per the medical officials, the students are now out of danger.

Forensic teams have reached the spot to ascertain which gas got leaked.

Further details are awaited.

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    <title>CSB Warns Schools of Danger in Chem Labs</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-19T12:07:40+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Middle and high school science labs across the US are overflowing with potentially dangerous and unstable chemicals. If handled improperly, they can explode, catch on fire or burn through the skin.

The chemicals include:

Piric acid, which can explode instantly if mishandled;
Bromine and chlorine, once used as chemical warfare agents; and
Ethyl ether, also potentially explosive.
In response to a recent fire in a high school chemistry laboratory that resulted in multiple injuries, the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is calling on schools and educators to review agency guidance for lab and classroom work involving flammable liquids.

CSB states that although it isn’t investigating the Oct. 12 incident at Dinwiddie High School in Virginia, it’s reminiscent of past instances that prompted an incident investigation.

In those cases, an individual, as part of a lab demonstration, poured the flammable chemical methanol from a bulk container onto flames. A flashback to the bulk containers led to fires that caused injuries.

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    <title>Four suffer burn injuries due to glycerine leakage at research institute in Worli</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-17T11:48:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/four-suffer-burn-injuries-due-to-glycerine-leakage-at-research-institute-in-worli-101668626285220.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[After the incident, the injured were first admitted to the Jaslok hospital where they were provided first aid treatment and then all four patients were shifted to the National Burns centre in Airoli

Mumbai: Four staff members of Sasmira Institute of Design and Textile in Worli were injured in a chemical leakage during one of their routine experiments on Wednesday at around 1pm.
One of the staffers, 20-year-old Pratiksha Ghume, suffered maximum burns (72%) in the incident.
According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), it was a level 1 glycerine leakage.
The injured were first rushed to the Jaslok Hospital and later, shifted to the National Burns Centre located at Airoli.
Other staffers, Shraddha Shinde, 27, and Prajyot Vade, 21, suffered 40% burns and sixty-year-old Rajiv Kulkarni suffered 19% burns and were all admitted to the ICU as per information provided by Dr Amol Mhatre from National Burns centre in Airoli.
A senior official from the Sasmira Institute said, “It is an unfortunate incident that happened with our staff. The incident occurred in the chemistry lab. The incident involved a small machine, which was in perfect working condition, we are trying to assess what went wrong in the lab. Our preliminary focus is to get the best treatment for those injured. All those injured are staff members of the institute. The incident happened around 1pm in the chemistry lab.”
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    <title>Dinwiddie Schools did not have OSHA-required safety officer at time of accident</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-15T18:06:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/dinwiddie-schools-did-not-have-osha-required-safety-officer</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[DINWIDDIE COUNTY, Va. -- The Dinwiddie County School System did not follow state recommendations on how to teach science safely when an accident occurred in a chemistry classroom that injured students and a teacher, according to information obtained through a public records request.

A recommendation that schools have a Chemical Hygiene Plan (CHP) is included in the Virginia Department of Education's Safety in Science Teaching guidance from 2019.

The purpose of a school CHP is to describe all of the precautions that will be taken to protect students and teachers from chemical hazards, according to Dr. Jim Kaufman, the head of the non-profit Laboratory Safety Institute.

He said a CHP is critical to protect student and teacher safety.

"It's not just having a document and a person, it's having a program where people are really buying into it participating in the program," Kaufman said.

But according to a recent public records request filed by WTVR CBS 6, Dinwiddie County School's CHP could not be found, or did not exist on the day of the accident.

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    <title>Waltham office building evacuated after chemical spill in lab</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-15T11:33:33+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[WALTHAM, Mass. —
Massachusetts hazmat crews spent hours working to resolve a chemical spill that forced the evacuation of an office building in Waltham on Monday.

Waltham Fire Department officials said the spill happened at about 2 p.m. inside a laboratory at Azenta Life Sciences at 1432 Main St., which is along Route 117 and not far from Route 128.

The spill involved an acid-based, flammable solvent but it was contained in the Azenta Life Sciences lab, officials said.

Waltham fire Chief Andrew Mullin said the amount of solvent spilled was between a liter and a gallon.

No serious injuries were reported, but two people were taken to an area hospital as a precaution and seven others were medically evaluated by emergency personnel at the scene. Those people were experiencing symptoms that included skin, nose and throat irritation.

Mullin said a state hazmat team and a cleanup company responded to the scene.]]></description>
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    <title>Experimental Versus Predicted Heats of Reaction for Some Common Reaction Types in Pharmaceutical Industry</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-14T11:46:28+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Common pharmaceutical reactions were modeled using the commercially available CHETAH program and the novel TCIT program to obtain heats of reaction values. The programs were used to predict thermochemical data for isolated molecules based on their functional groups. Both programs use group theory, CHETAH, commercially available through ASTM and TCIT using a more modern approach and under development at Purdue. Reactions such as amide coupling (via both uronium reagent and T3P), debenzylation, bromination, tert-butyloxycarbonyl deprotection, Suzuki couplings, and halogenation were analyzed. These values were then compared to experimental values to assess the accuracy of each program’s predictions. Experimental values were provided by several pharmaceutical companies, who participated and advised in this endeavor, as listed in Acknowledgements. Deviations were on average within ±20% of experimental values for both programs, but outlier behavior with respect to certain functional groups was distinct. CHETAH calculations were at times hampered by missing groups, which was not the case for TCIT, which is designed to be arbitrarily extensible. This project resulted in a broader molecular library for TCIT, exposure of shortcomings in CHETAH, and strategies to improve accuracy moving forward.

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    <title>9 out of 10 scientists hate their lab coat</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-10T11:26:25+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An informal survey of 1000 chemists and life scientists has shown that most dislike their lab coats – not enough pockets, no choice of colour, inconvenient open cuffs and, most of all, terrible fit. Respondents to the survey conducted by Genius Lab Gear were unhappy about the length of their coats’ sleeves, the shoulders being too wide or too narrow and the overall shape too boxy to fit anyone who isn’t a perfect cylinder. The company is now working to address these complaints with their lab coat, which will likely be available for purchase in August 2023.

The project was born out of Genius Lab Gear founder Derek Miller’s frustration with his own lab coat. The former materials scientist remembers the coat’s pockets being too big to securely hold a phone or tweezers, the sleeves being so wide that they knocked over glassware and the collar too low to feel protected from spills. He recently put out a survey on social media that was answered by around 1000 undergraduates, PhD and postdoctoral researchers, technicians and research assistants working mostly in chemistry or biology.

‘People were really fired up about [the topic],’ Miller says. ‘I was not prepared for how emotional people got about the problem. [It] gets down to mental health, self-esteem, not feeling safe, not feeling good, not even wanting to go into the lab at all because they have to wear [this lab coat] and it’s just uncomfortable for them the whole day.’

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<dc:subject>United_Kingdom laboratory discovery environmental</dc:subject>
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    <title>Lab That Created Risky Avian Flu Had “Unacceptable” Biosafety Protocols</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-05T12:13:19+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[T STARTED WITH a bold idea. “Someone finally convinced me to do something really, really stupid,” virologist Ron Fouchier told Scientific American in 2011. Fouchier, of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, and another scientist, Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, had separately tweaked the H5N1 virus — an influenza that primarily infects birds — in a way that made it spread more easily in ferrets. H5N1 is a prime pandemic candidate, and ferrets are often used as proxies for humans in flu experiments. When word got out that the two scientists were planning to publish papers detailing their experiments, making a blueprint available to the world, the outcry was extreme. The scientists were trying to better understand H5N1 in order to prevent a pandemic, but critics worried that their experiments could instead cause one — or provide would-be bioterrorists with an outbreak manufacturing guide.

The New York Times ran an editorial titled “An Engineered Doomsday.” The backlash was so severe that in 2012, Kawaoka, Fouchier, and other prominent flu scientists voluntarily agreed to pause the transmissibility work. The debacle prompted an overhaul of policies, now being reconsidered in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, governing work with so-called gain-of-function research of concern.

The story is well known. And yet, what happened next has never been reported in its entirety.

Early on, Fouchier told Science that he had created “probably one of the most dangerous viruses you can make.” But after controversy broke out, as the science communicator Peter Sandman has written, Fouchier and his supporters shifted to downplaying the danger. In early 2013, flu scientists ended their voluntary pause, arguing that when the research was done at enhanced biosafety level 3, or BSL3+, the benefits outweighed the risks. Kawaoka, who was normally the more taciturn of the two, hosted journalists in his lab, where he explained his safety procedures. “The influenza virus is sensitive to detergent,” he reportedly said while explaining the process of showering out. “They die.” A biosafety staffer at the University of Wisconsin got up before a university audience to dispel what she called myths about lab oversight. The address was broadcast on local television.

Then, months later, Kawaoka’s lab saw two accidents involving lab-generated flu viruses, just one week apart.

The accidents, a spill and a needle prick, carried a low risk of infection. Flu viruses are typically transferred through respiratory droplets, not skin contact or injection. Nonetheless, in letters obtained by The Intercept, staff at a funding agency accused the university of shirking biosafety precautions that Kawaoka had promised to adopt. They also demanded changes to the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s protocol for accidental lab exposures. Of particular concern was a plan to quarantine all researchers exposed to modified H5N1 at home, even if they were at high risk of infection — an approach that the funding agency administrators found so alarming that they threatened to end the lab’s grant unless the university changed course.

At the center of the debacle was the National Institutes of Health, whose National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases had funded both Kawaoka’s and Fouchier’s labs. (Fouchier was a sub-awardee on a grant to a U.S. institution.) The agency oversees biosafety protocols on the same research it funds, and its oversight arm has a reputation for being timid, generally resolving issues through polite dialogue. “We want to be cautious about when we use that stick,” said Jessica Tucker, acting deputy director of NIH’s Office of Science Policy, referring to the threat of termination.

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    <title>Death Of Maryland Man Found In Homemade Lab With Chemicals Under Investigation By State Police</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-05T11:56:52+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The death of a man found dead in Washington County by Maryland State Police troopers surrounded by “an excessive amount of unknown chemicals” in a homemade laboratory is under investigation.

Bradley Ray Roberts, 60, was pronounced dead in his Foxville Road home in Smithsburg on Thursday, Nov. 3 after state police investigators were contacted by his family who had not spoken to him in several days.

According to police, at approximately 11 a.m. on Thursday morning, troopers from the Hagerstown Barrack responded to Roberts’ home in Smithsburg to conduct a welfare check.

Family members from out of the area reported they had not spoken with Roberts for several days and that he had been ill, investigators said.  

Upon their arrival, troopers were able to look into the window of the home and found a man - later identified as Roberts - lying on the floor in front of what appeared to be a homemade laboratory with an excessive amount of unknown chemicals. ]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2022-11-02T10:11:16+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[About $2,000 worth of contents was lost in a small chemical fire in September in a third-floor lab of the Central Academic Building, according to a report from the San Antonio Fire Department.

The fire, reported to SAFD at 5:40 p.m. on Sept. 14, started during a lab in Room 302 of CAB, causing an evacuation of the entire building and canceling classes for the rest of the evening. 

The fire was caused by misuse of equipment, according to the 8:31 p.m. report, which described a student conducting an experiment and catching a small plastic beaker of ethanol on fire, along with a small trash bag and a plastic divider.

The heat source, according to the report, was a cigarette lighter. 

The BIOL 2421, Introduction to Microbiology, lab was in session at that time, according to JagWire. 

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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A science experiment started a fire Monday and left a Newport News middle school teacher with minor injuries.

It happened at Crittenden Middle School just before 10 a.m. Monday. Fire crews said when they arrived, they saw smoke on the second floor of the school coming from a science lab. Crews told News 3 a chemistry experiment started the fire.

The Newport News Fire Department's Hazardous Materials Team Responded to clear the area, and students were allowed back into school by noon with only certain areas of the school closed off for cleaning.

Crews evaluated eight students who were near the fire when it happened. They were not hurt and were allowed to return to school. The teacher who was treated for minor injuries was released at the scene.

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    <dc:date>2022-10-30T11:49:16+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Three students and a teacher were treated for burns after a chemistry lab fire Oct. 12 at Dinwiddie High School in Virginia. One of the students was hospitalized for 2 weeks. The incident involved a classroom demonstration using methanol, according to the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), which is again promoting its classroom safety guidance.
The fire was far from the first caused by methanol in school science classes. Typically, such fires stem from demonstrations that involve burning a flammable liquid, usually methanol, according to the CSB. In some cases, after a demonstration has started, methanol from bulk containers is poured directly onto flames, then a flashback into the container ignites the rest of the fuel. The resulting fire can injure people as far as 4.5 m away.
When three serious accidents occurred over 8 weeks in 2014, the CSB issued a safety bulletin.
The bulletin provides four key lessons: do not use bulk containers of flammable chemicals when small quantities are sufficient; implement strict safety controls when handling hazardous chemicals; conduct a comprehensive hazard review of demonstration protocols; and provide a safety barrier between the demonstration and audience.
While demonstrations involving flammable chemicals can be important teaching tools, “they must be done safely,” CSB interim head Steve Owens says in a statement. “We urge school administrators and teachers to review and follow the CSB’s safety lessons for these kinds of demonstrations so that no one is harmed by these preventable accidents.”
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    <title>Outside the Safe Operating Space of a New Planetary Boundary for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)</title>
    <dc:date>2022-10-27T14:49:43+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It is hypothesized that environmental contamination by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) defines a separate planetary boundary and that this boundary has been exceeded. This hypothesis is tested by comparing the levels of four selected perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) (i.e., perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorohexanesulfonic acid (PFHxS), and perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA)) in various global environmental media (i.e., rainwater, soils, and surface waters) with recently proposed guideline levels. On the basis of the four PFAAs considered, it is concluded that (1) levels of PFOA and PFOS in rainwater often greatly exceed US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Lifetime Drinking Water Health Advisory levels and the sum of the aforementioned four PFAAs (Σ4 PFAS) in rainwater is often above Danish drinking water limit values also based on Σ4 PFAS; (2) levels of PFOS in rainwater are often above Environmental Quality Standard for Inland European Union Surface Water; and (3) atmospheric deposition also leads to global soils being ubiquitously contaminated and to be often above proposed Dutch guideline values. It is, therefore, concluded that the global spread of these four PFAAs in the atmosphere has led to the planetary boundary for chemical pollution being exceeded. Levels of PFAAs in atmospheric deposition are especially poorly reversible because of the high persistence of PFAAs and their ability to continuously cycle in the hydrosphere, including on sea spray aerosols emitted from the oceans. Because of the poor reversibility of environmental exposure to PFAS and their associated effects, it is vitally important that PFAS uses and emissions are rapidly restricted.

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    <title>3 Grade 7 students in Davao suffer 3rd-degree burns after science experiment mishap</title>
    <dc:date>2022-10-27T10:43:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A science experiment of Grade 7 students at Awao National High School in Davao led to a fire accident with three students suffering from third-degree burns.

In Sunday's episode of "Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho," student Bemboy Montanez narrated how the fire started during their class' experiment session.

("Salt was put in the water, sir mixed it. He took the bottle then he put some alcohol in the stove, then it exploded.")

As soon as the fire started, he said that his teacher went to him and hugged him.

("Our clothes caught on fire, sir approached me and hugged me.")

Aside from Bemboy, another student, Edwin Rebleza Jr., had the worst injuries from the accident. His face, neck, arms, hands, chest, and tummy were all scalded.

("I was in front and two of my classmates were beside me. I rolled on the ground and caused the chair to fall because the fire was spreading on my clothes.")

Edwin pleaded to hospital staff to be gentle with him during his treatment due to the pain caused by the third-degree burn.

According to one of Edwin's classmates, Cyril, Edwin sprayed alcohol on his uniform during the experiment because he wanted to smell good.

When Edwin was asked if he thought the alcohol caused the malfunction of the experiment, the seventh grader admitted that he had no idea.

("I don't know. When I moved away, I stepped back slightly. The fire spread suddenly on my face.")

Prof. Laurenzo Alba, a chemist professor at De La Salle University, said that the experiment they were trying to do was possibly to vaporize the salt solution.

("It is to demontrate that salt gets left behind when water becomes water vapor by boiling.")

The chemist also added that ethyl alcohol and isopropyl alcohol, two of the most common ingredients in a science lab, are flammable.

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    <title>Portland Fire HazMat team responds after lab fire raises concern</title>
    <dc:date>2022-10-25T10:40:37+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) – A HazMat team was deployed on Monday after Portland Fire & Rescue responded to a fire at Lacamas Labs, a producer of pharmaceutical intermediates.

Portland fire crews first received reports of the warehouse fire around 4:30 in the 3600 block of N Suttle Road. Responding crews reported seeing a large smoke column from a distance and were told the building was in the process of evacuation when they arrived.

Plant workers informed crews of the hazardous materials inside the building adjacent where the fire was active. Because of the dangerous materials, a HazMat team was called to the scene.


Portland Fire HazMat team responds after lab fire raises concern.(Portland Fire & Rescue)
Arriving crews found fire showing from the front of the building in and around the area of the oil pump. Early reports indicate that a failed hot oil system used in their operations caused the fire.

After a targeted attack on the exterior of the building, Portland fire said a more “methodical” approach was taken for the interior because of the hazardous materials. Crews faced concern with the risk of putting water onto substances that behave violently with water.

When entering the building, firefighters used gas monitoring devices to ensure the premises were safe. On entry, they discovered much of the fire was contained to the outside of the structure with very little damage to the inside of the warehouse.]]></description>
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    <title>Lab Manipulations of Covid Virus Fall Under Murky Government Rules</title>
    <dc:date>2022-10-23T11:00:36+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Scientists at Boston University came under fire this week for an experiment in which they tinkered with the Covid virus. Breathless headlines claimed they had created a deadly new strain, and the National Institutes of Health rebuked the university for not seeking the government’s permission.

As it turned out, the experiments, performed on mice, were not what the inflammatory media coverage suggested. The manipulated virus strain was actually less lethal than the original.

But the uproar highlighted shortcomings in how the U.S. government regulates research on pathogens that pose a risk, however small, of setting off a pandemic. It revealed loopholes that allow experiments to go unnoticed, a lack of transparency about how the risk of experiments is judged and a seemingly haphazard pattern in the federal government’s oversight policy, known as the P3CO framework.

Even as the government publicly reprimanded Boston University, it raised no red flags publicly about several other experiments it funded in which researchers manipulated coronaviruses in similar ways. One of them was carried out by the government’s own scientists.
The Boston episode “certainly tells us the P3CO framework needs to be overhauled pretty dramatically,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. “The whole process is kind of a black box that makes it really difficult for researchers.”

The N.I.H. said that every study it considers for funding is vetted for safety concerns by agency experts, who decide whether to escalate it to a higher-level dangerous pathogen committee.

Some experiments, though, either because they are conceived later on or because they do not rely directly on federal funds, end up falling outside the scope of that process, leading to confusion, biosafety experts said. And the rules could be overhauled soon. After months of meetings, a committee of government advisers is expected to deliver updated recommendations for such research by December or January, the agency said.

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    <title>Wednesday's Structure And Vegetation Fire Began With Explosion</title>
    <dc:date>2022-10-22T10:38:07+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Burson, CA – Wednesday’s Meadow Fire in Burson is now being blamed on an illegal butane honey oil lab.

According to investigators, the Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office began getting a flood of calls around 1:15 p.m. reporting an explosion, which was heard and felt throughout the Burson area. As earlier reported here, once on the scene, Columbia air and ground resources began battling an outbuilding, house, and vegetation fire. The grass fire grew to nine acres before crews were able to extinguish it, and both structures were heavily damaged.

“It was observed that materials within the outbuilding continued to burn despite fire suppression efforts,” detailed Lt. Stark.

The Sheriff’s Office Marijuana Enforcement Team (MET) also responded to the area and conducted a preliminary investigation of the scene. Lt. Stark added, “Sheriff’s MET investigators observed objects and material within the burning structures consistent with equipment and material used for an illegal butane honey oil lab (BHO).”

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    <title>Butte College instructor, students injured after science lab explosion</title>
    <dc:date>2022-10-21T10:12:15+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[OROVILLE, Calif. — UPDATE, OCT. 20, 5:50 PM:

An instructor and six students received minor injuries after an explosion in the Chemistry Lab at Butte College on Thursday afternoon.

According to officials with the Butte County Sheriff's Office (BCSO), the lab experienced an explosion after glass was put to flame, causing it to rupture and injure nearby people.

In total, seven people were injures: an instructor and six students, according to the BCSO. One student was transported to a local hospital and the rest drove themselves.

CAL FIRE officials in Butte County said their firefighters originally responded to the campus in regards to a possible hazardous materials incident. However, it was determined there were no hazardous materials involved.]]></description>
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    <title>Teacher injured, students evacuated after chemical spill at Booker T. Washington High School in Norfolk – The Virginian-Pilot</title>
    <dc:date>2022-10-21T10:11:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.pilotonline.com/news/education/vp-nw-chemical-spill-booker-t-washington-20221020-sxxdsxm6c5go7himlldzgzab34-story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[NORFOLK — Students at Booker T. Washington High School were evacuated and a teacher was hospitalized with minor injuries following a chemical spill at the school Thursday morning.

There was a “spill and reaction” of an unidentified chemical in a storage room at the school, said Madeline Curott, spokesperson for the Norfolk school system. It’s unclear how the chemical was spilled and what threat it could pose to students.

“School administration immediately enacted safety and security protocols, including calling Norfolk Fire-Rescue,” Curott said in an email. “Students will remain secure outside while fire personnel ensure that the chemical is neutralized.”

The chemical reaction occurred in one of the chemistry rooms in the school, according to Stephanie Ramsey, spokesperson for Norfolk Fire-Rescue. No other injuries were reported.

“At this time, our investigators and hazmat crew members are still narrowing down what chemicals were actually involved,” Ramsey said Thursday afternoon.

Ramsey said the incident was turned over to a hazardous materials team contacted by the school division to clean up the area.

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    <title>India: Massive fire at Noida pathology lab doused</title>
    <dc:date>2022-10-20T09:35:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/india-massive-fire-at-noida-pathology-lab-doused-1.1666142385610</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Noida, Uttar Pradesh: A massive fire broke out in a pathology laboratory located in Sector 63, Noida on Tuesday has been doused, officials said. No casualties were reported in the incident.

The fire tenders reached the spot after receiving alert.

"We got information that a fire broke out in a pathology lab located in Sector 63. Our team reached the spot and the fire has been doused. No casualty has been reported," Jitender Kumar Singh, Fire Officer, Noida said.

The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. Further details are awaited.

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<dc:subject>India laboratory fire response unknown_chemical</dc:subject>
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    <title>Hazmat incident sends 3 Molecular Testing Labs workers to hospital</title>
    <dc:date>2022-10-16T10:37:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.columbian.com/news/2022/oct/15/hazmat-incident-sends-3-molecular-testing-labs-workers-to-hospital/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Three workers were transported to a hospital Saturday following a hazardous-materials incident at Molecular Testing Labs, 14401 S.E. First St., according to the Vancouver Fire Department.

After a chlorine gas spill at the company, bleach was used in an attempt to clean up the mess. The chemical reaction between the two led to off-gassing. The building was evacuated, but four employees showed symptoms of exposure, including red eyes.

Three employees were taken to the hospital, according to Raymond Egan, a captain and public information officer for the fire department. The building was being ventilated and is expected to return to normal.
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    <title>Biosafety labs that handle dangerous pathogens multiply worldwide despite safety concerns: report</title>
    <dc:date>2022-10-15T10:12:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/biosafety-labs-handle-dangerous-pathogens-multiply-worldwide-despite</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The COVID-19 pandemic has kicked off a wave of planned biosafety laboratories that handle dangerous pathogens worldwide, especially in India, the Philippines and Singapore, according to Nature.

Over 40 labs are in development at the levels of BSL-3, which allow scientists to "safely work with potentially lethal and inhalable pathogens in a contained environment," and BSL-4, which handle pathogens so dangerous they must be physically separated from the rest of the building and require a "dedicated air supply."

Scientists are cheering and worrying about the plans, which could lead to improved drugs for infectious diseases that plague developing countries such as Kyasanur forest disease but are also "super expensive" to maintain, Nature said.]]></description>
<dc:subject>India laboratory discovery environmental</dc:subject>
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    <title>Three students, 1 teacher taken to hospital after chemistry class 'incident' at Central Virginia high school</title>
    <dc:date>2022-10-13T09:07:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/dinwiddie-high-school-incident-in-chemistry-classroom-leads-to-early-release/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[DINWIDDIE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Three Dinwiddie High School students and one teacher were sent to hospitals after an “incident” in a chemistry class caused the school to be evacuated and closed early.

According to Dinwiddie County Public Schools, the incident, which happened Wednesday, Oct. 12, was confined to a chemistry classroom on the second floor of Dinwiddie High School. At least two ambulances and several police vehicles were seen responding to the school before 11 a.m.]]></description>
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    <title>Safety Information in Journal Articles Part 1: The Necessity of Communication</title>
    <dc:date>2022-10-11T09:33:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://axial.acs.org/2022/10/10/safety-information-in-journal-articles-part-1-the-necessity-of-communication/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Safety is a core value of the American Chemical Society and an integral part of the overall research process. In this three-part series, we review the importance of disclosing safety information in journal articles; provide tips and best practices for authors to formulate a well-written safety summary statement; and share additional resources that will help authors prepare for potential safety risks associated with their research and effectively communicate them with the scientific community.

The Hazard of Insufficient Safety Reporting

The importance of safety in the research laboratory is widely recognized, including maintaining awareness of potential hazards and associated risks. But what about when it comes to effectively communicating these hazards and risks1 as authors prepare their research for submission to a scientific journal?

When submitting a manuscript to an ACS journal, authors are expected to disclose potential safety hazards and other relevant information. These reporting requirements came into force in 2017,2 driven in part by a review of author guidelines across more than 720 chemistry journals—which found that only 8% mentioned safety information requirements for authors.3

The ACS Divisions of Chemical Health and Safety (CHAS) and Chemical Information (CINF) along with the Committee of Chemical Safety (CCS) also conducted a survey of chemical safety in academia around the same time, and they found while most researchers were somewhat familiar with formal, industrial-level safety management processes, they rarely used them in their daily work—and few consistently shared them in their publications.4 Perhaps unsurprising, then, that a decade ago 46% of scientists had experienced some sort of injury in the lab and 30% had witnessed at least one major incident requiring medical attention.5

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    <title>Stain-resistant school uniforms expose children to PFAS</title>
    <dc:date>2022-10-02T10:55:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://cen.acs.org/environment/persistent-pollutants/Stain-resistant-school-uniforms-expose/100/web/2022/09</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[High levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been found on school uniforms available throughout the US and Canada, potentially exposing millions of children to these compounds (Environ. Sci. Technol. 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c02111). Exposure to PFAS has been associated with a wealth of negative health effects, including reduced vaccine effectiveness as well as increased risk of liver disease and cancer.
According to the study’s senior author Marta Venier, an environmental chemist at Indiana University, children are especially vulnerable to these health risks due to their small size and developing bodies. “We really don’t need more information to decide that it’s not a good idea to use PFAS in children’s items,” she says.
Yet PFAS are frequently applied to uniforms in order to make them more stain resistant. Once they’re applied, researchers suspect that a fraction of these compounds could be absorbed by children’s skin whenever the garment is worn. Some of the more volatile PFAS, like 6:2 fluorotelomer alcohol (6:2 FTOH)—the main compound Venier and her colleagues found in the analyzed uniform brands—could also enter the body through inhalation. In addition, the PFAS can be released into the environment every time the uniforms are washed.
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