People don't realize that lead is all over their homes in a wide variety of products, particularly in things like extension cords and wire and cable, your holiday string lights when you're stringing them up this year, you'll probably see a warning label that says that the product contains lead, known to be a toxic chemical in the state of California.
Given Saddam Hussein's announced intention to destroy half of the Jewish state with chemical weapons, Israeli citizens' anxiety is entirely understandable.
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"It's a tough package, " says Bruce Dale, a chemical engineering professor at Michigan State University.
"Something went down, but it was short of a chemical weapon, " a senior State Department official told CNN.
Finally, I hope the Congress will recognize that the threat of chemical agents coming into the hands of state sponsors of terrorism like Libya is a sufficient menace as to warrant physical destruction of the site, if the preceding techniques prove ineffective.
Long a priority of the Committee's chairman, Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), this initiative received critical momentum when -- as part of the Clinton Administration's bid to secure Senate approval of the controversial Chemical Weapons Convention -- Secretary of State Madeleine Albright agreed to eliminate several bureaucracies and consolidate their responsibilities in the State Department.
This plays a role in the dopamine pathway, a chemical known to produce a feel-good state.
It has reopened investigations into state aid paid to a German chemical company, Buna, as a sweetener to its prospective purchaser, America's Dow.
At the same time, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar outlined a series of rules that called for tighter state regulations on everything from full chemical disclosure to well integrity.
Some reports suggest the facility could be Syria's Scientific Studies and Research Centre, believed to be the state organisation responsible for developing biological and chemical weapons.
The Jerusalem Post said the description of the facility fitted that of Syria's Scientific Studies and Research Centre, believed to be the state organisation responsible for developing biological and chemical weapons.
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Whereas alcohol and substance abuse has a chemical addiction, the buzz from gambling is a mental state of mind which is desirable.
Meanwhile, in typical fashion, the state of California is blazing its own trail on chemical reform, releasing its draft Safer Consumer Products regulation this morning.
Speaking at the American Chemical Society meeting in New Orleans, Miriam Sticklen of Michigan State University described her work on engineering corn stalks to contain an enzyme normally found in the stomach of cattle.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is already headquartered in the Hague with a Conference of State Parties, an Executive Council, and a Technical Secretariat whose verification responsibilities extend over 100 pages.
It makes far better sense for the enemy be it a terrorist group, a rogue state, or a combination of both to wage chemical, biological or even cyber-warfare against American society, exploiting its openness.
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An analysis of video of hospitalized Syrians released by state-run TV suggests people are not suffering from a chemical weapons attack, nor are they being treated as though they were in such an attack, the U.S. military official said.
Syria's state-run news agency said 25 people were killed in a chemical attack on the Khan al-Assad village in northern Aleppo province.
And Shuanghui's reputation was battered in 2011 when state broadcaster CCTV revealed its pork contained clenbuterol a banned chemical that makes pork leaner but can be harmful to humans.
The American-desk-free State Department insists the U.S. military would be violating the Chemical Weapons Convention if it uses RCAs.
G4S provides guards for nuclear power plants, chemical plants, government buildings and other sensitive sites, and it is prohibited by state law from hiring people with felony convictions as security officers.
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CICC's bread and butter was getting state-owned giants such as China Telecom Corp. and China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. to list overseas.
Syria's chemical weapons program has been well known says Robert Einhorn, a former assistant secretary of state for non-proliferation issues now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
The Chinese State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said the amount of the chemical found in the milk would not cause ill effects in adults who drank less than two liters a day.
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Penn State University says that such assets would create 200, 000 jobs and the American Chemical Council says that 12, 000 chemical-related jobs would be formed in West Virginia alone.
John Sullivan of the Boston Water and Sewer Commission testified that since September 11 the nation's drinking water utilities have been on a heightened state of alert to protect against the potential disruption of water service and biological or chemical contamination of drinking water.
You say, that almost immediately, a critical piece of disinformation entered the international coverage of Halabja and on March the 23rd - reminding that the attack occurred on the 16th - a U.S. State Department official, Charles Redman(ph) says the Iranians might have used chemical weapons there.
Authorities and state enterprises are still finding ways to bring online new production of PX a chemical used to make polyester and plastic bottles and is in increasing demand as China's appetite for consumer goods grows.
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