The British Dental Association said it was unnecessary to remove amalgam fillings, citing the findings of an expert government committee which concluded they posed no toxic risk.
School districts that specifically entered into toxic interest rate swaps or high risk investments like the West Allis Milwaukee School District have not resolved their problems.
The failure to adopt radical new policies to jump-start the economy and in one fell swoop to resolve the insolvent bank situation by ridding the overhang of toxic bad paper "increases the risk of a further dramatic equity sell-off, " says Christopher Wood, CLSA emerging markets analyst.
The Environmental Protection Agency calls radon "extremely toxic, " and the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis in 1998 listed it as the most frequent cause of premature death from a hazard in the home.
Meanwhile, ViroPharma in Exton, Pa. hopes to launch clinical trials of a more radical approach: preventing outbreaks by infecting high-risk patients with innocuous strains to prevent toxic strains from taking hold.
Meanwhile, ViroPharma (nasdaq: VPHM - news - people ) in Exton, Pa. hopes to launch clinical trials of a more radical approach: preventing outbreaks by infecting high-risk patients with innocuous strains to prevent toxic strains from taking hold.
On one hand, I feel it is a huge risk to bring a vulnerable little life into this toxic world.
It had recently introduced new risk controls, aimed at preventing the kind of toxic investments that led to it losing tens of billion of dollars in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
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It is timely and important for two reasons: first, the interest and investment in Shariah-compliant finance in the West continues to grow, and second, the fragile state of our financial system of late is due to the catastrophic impact of toxic financial products designed as highly sophisticated black box solutions to undisclosed market risk.
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Putting the cart before the horse, the EPA issued preliminary clean up goals for dioxin on December 31, 2009 before the agency had completed a new risk assessment on the chemical, widely perceived as one of most toxic environmental pollutants (the assessment is due by the end of this year).
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The SEC, he said, has often updated its assessment of what constitutes material risk for investors, beginning with new environmental criteria following the Love Canal toxic dump scandal of the late 1970s.
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