This decree belongs where those PCBs are buried in the silt of the Hudson.
PCBs are actually not carcinogenic unless you repeatedly overdose a laboratory mouse with them.
Dioxins and PCBs are among a "dirty dozen" dangerous compounds known as persistent organic pollutants.
Michigan's Kalamazoo River is polluted by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), highly toxic chemicals banned in the 1970s.
Others say it's high in toxic substances -- mercury, dioxins and PCBs -- and should be avoided.
People exposed to PCBs in the air for a long time have experience lung and skin irritation.
And there's still a great deal of concern about GE and its pollution of the Hudson with PCBs.
PCBs are used in many industries: as heat-exchange liquid in transformers, in paint additives and in making plastics.
PCBs are actually not carcinogenic-unless you repeatedly overdose a laboratory mouse with them.
She points out that as yet there is no technical remedy that can clean up mercury pollution or PCBs.
The UK government is currently aiming to phase out the use of PCBs as coolants and lubricants in industry.
The shortened version of AHR does not bind nearly so easily to PCBs.
Animals given large quantities of PCBs to breathe suffered liver and kidney damage.
PCBs, a group of environmentally persistent industrial chemicals that disrupt animals' hormone systems.
The chemical will be added to the Stockholm Convention, which now regulates 22 toxic substances such as DDT and PCBs.
PCBs were routinely used until about 25 years ago in the manufacture of a number of items, including electrical transformers.
Some suspect that waste industrial oil containing dioxin and PCBs was placed into a container meant for recycled frying fats.
PCBs are now embedded at the bottom of the river, getting buried under more and more mud as time goes on.
It is also known that plastic particles tend to accumulate persistent, bioaccumulating and toxic contaminants such as PCBs, DDT and PBDEs.
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PCBs do their damage by binding to a protein called the aryl hydrocarbon receptor, or AHR, thus stopping it working properly.
Polychlorinated biphenyls, (PCBs), chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and DDT are also organochlorine compounds which, although banned or discredited, are still evident in the environment.
The New York State Department of Health says that women of childbearing age and children under 15 should not eat fish containing PCBs.
Consumer demand for advanced electronic devices such as smartphones and tablets have fueled strong demand for PCBs and FPDs over the past year.
Even if the trace elements of PCBs that can be found in Hudson River fish posed a danger to humans, the EPA's solution is ill-conceived.
There was another class of hazardous chemical present: polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
Two of them seem particularly resistant to the effects of PCBs.
The company designs, develops, manufactures systems and solutions used to inspect, test, and repair PCBs and FPDs, such as liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and touch screens.
Worse still, some of those fish are full of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which at worst, cause cancer and at best wreck humans' immune, reproductive, nervous and endocrine systems.
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