Eats Waste

G. M. Shaul, R. J. Lieberman, C. R. Dempsey, and K. A. Dostal, "Eate of Azo Dyes in the Activated Sludge Process," presented at the 41st Annual Purdue Industrial Waste Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., May 13—15, 1986. 

Food wastes. Food wastes are the animal, fruit, or vegetable residues (also called garbage) resulting from the handhug, preparation, cooking, and eating of foods. The most important charac teristic of these wastes is that they are putrescible and will decompose rapidly, especially in warm weather. 

Control over chemicals, containers etc. removal from site (see also waste disposal) Prohibition of eating/drinking except in designated areas... 

Methyl parathion can enter your body if you eat food or drink water containing it if you swim, bathe, or shower in contaminated water if you touch recently sprayed plants or soil if you touch contaminated soil near hazardous waste sites or if you breathe air that contains methyl parathion, such as near factories or recently sprayed farm fields (or in recent accounts of the illegal use of methyl parathion, if you breathe air or touch contaminated surfaces inside homes where methyl parathion has been used to kill insects). By any means of exposure, methyl parathion goes into your body quickly and gets into your blood. From your bloodstream, methyl parathion goes to your liver, brain, and other organs. Your liver changes some of methyl parathion to a more harmful chemical called methyl paraoxon. Both methyl parathion and methyl paraoxon can bind to enzymes of your nerves within minutes or hours. Your liver breaks down methyl parathion and methyl paraoxon into less harmful substances. These less harmful substances leave your body in urine within hours or days. For more information, see Chapter 3. 

Cyanide can enter your body if you breathe air, eat food, or drink water that contains cyanide. Cyanide can enter your body through the skin, but this is common only for people who work in cyanide-related industries. Exposure to contaminated water, air, or soil can occur at hazardous waste sites. Once it is in your body, cyanide can quickly enter the bloodstream. Some of the cyanide is changed to thiocyanate, which is less harmful, and leaves the body in the urine. Some... 

Turn off your cell phone and the ringer on your home phone. This way you won t eat up your study time answering phone calls— even a five-minute call can cause you to lose focus and waste precious time. 

Dibromoethane can enter your body after you eat or drink contaminated food and water. It can also enter your body through your skin when you bathe or swim in contaminated water. The 1,2-dibromoethane inside tiny soil particles may enter your body if you crush or eat contaminated soil. The chemical can enter your nose and lungs when you breathe air that contains 1,2-dibromoethane or when you shower with water that is contaminated. Near hazardous waste sites or near areas that once were farmed, the most likely way that you will be exposed is by drinking contaminated groundwater. 

Think how many carcinogens are household names asbestos, cigarette smoke (a mixture of several thousand chemical compounds), DES, dioxin, saccharin, arsenic, PCBs, radon, EDB, Alar. Hundreds more of these substances, some very obscure, are known to the scientific and medical community, and many of these are scattered throughout the land at thousands of hazardous waste sites similar to Love Canal. People are exposed to these dreadful substances through the air they breathe, the water they drink and bathe in, and the foods they eat. Chemicals can also produce many other types of health damage, some very serious, such as birth defects and damage to our nervous and immune systems. 

Exposure to heptachlor and heptachlor epoxide most commonly occurs when you eat contaminated food. Contaminated foods might include fish, shellfish (e.g., clams), dairy products, meat, and poultry. Children and toddlers drink large amounts of milk and may have greater exposure if the milk is contaminated with heptachlor or heptachlor epoxide. Infants can be exposed to these compounds from consumption of contaminated maternal or cow s milk. Exposure can also occur when you drink water, breathe air, or touch contaminated soil at hazardous waste sites that contain heptachlor or heptachlor epoxide. People whose homes have been treated with heptachlor to kill termites can be exposed by breathing heptachlor in the air. After heptachlor is changed to heptachlor epoxide in the soil, it can get into the air. People who breathe this air will be exposed to heptachlor epoxide. 

Near a hazardous waste site, heptachlor and heptachlor epoxide can enter your body if you breathe contaminated air, drink contaminated water, or touch contaminated soil. Exposure around hazardous waste sites can also occur by eating plants or animals that have been contaminated with heptachlor or heptachlor epoxide. Sometimes small children eat soil. If the soil is contaminated with heptachlor or heptachlor epoxide, they will be exposed in this way. Heptachlor epoxide can enter an infant s body in mother s milk after the mother has been exposed to heptachlor or heptachlor epoxide. Heptachlor can enter the bodies of people who make it in factories if they breathe it in or get it on their skin. 

In the past (prior to 1974), exposure of humans to heptachlor and heptachlor epoxide was directly related to the application of heptachlor as an insecticide. However, because of the persistence and bioaccumulation of heptachlor and heptachlor epoxide, exposure of the general population can occur through ingestion of contaminated food (especially cow s or maternal human milk), inhalation of vapors from contaminated soil and water, or direct contact with residual heptachlor from pesticide application. People whose homes have been treated may continue to be exposed to these chemicals in the air over long periods. Occupational exposure can occur in the manufacture of the chemical or from use of heptachlor to control fire ants. The most likely routes of exposure at hazardous waste sites are unknown. Heptachlor has been found infrequently in soil and groundwater at hazardous waste sites. Children who eat contaminated soil or people who obtain tap water from wells located near hazardous waste sites might be exposed to heptachlor. Also, since both compounds can volatilize from soil, people living near hazardous waste sites may be exposed to the compounds in the air. 

Children might be exposed to 3,3 -dichlorobenzidine if they eat small amounts of soil contaminated with 3,3 -dichlorobenzidine. However, studies suggest that it is very difficult to release 3,3 -dichlorobenzidine once it becomes attached to soil. Exposure via contaminated soil may occur if they live in an area near a source of the chemical (such as a hazardous waste site that contains 3,3 -dichlorobenzidine). Children can also be exposed if the parents work at chemical facilities where 3,3 -dichlorobenzidine is handled and bring home contaminated clothing or tools or if they do not shower before coming home. There are no known unique exposure pathways for children. 

Baughman, G.L. Eate of copper in copperized dyes during biological waste treatment. I Direct dyes. 

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