Article: UPSTATE SCIENTISTS LINK PCBS, DIABETES; SUNY UPSTATE RESEARCHERS STUDY A PCB-PRODUCING TOWN IN ALABAMA AND FIND A GREATER RISK.(News)

Article: The toxic effect of PCBs,NEW STRAITS TIMES
New Straits Times;  February 13, 1998 ;     700+ words ......highlighted that polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) would normally be released from dumpsite fires. Can you describe the effect of PCBs on health and the environment? POLYCHLORINATED...consisting of chlorine, carbon and hydrogen. PCBs are also known by their various brand names...

Article: Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs).(Brief Article)
Industrial Heating;  June 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......This was the first time in nearly 40 years that PCBs were even considered to have toxic effects on...been disagreements over the health effects from PCBs. The one thing experts can agree on is that PCBs can be found almost anywhere. A History of Concern...

Article: HIGH PCB EXPOSURE TIED TO DIABETES RISK
Rachel's Democracy & Health News;  September 18, 2008 ;     271 words ......polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) may face an elevated risk of type 2 diabetes, a new study shows...reported in the journal Diabetes Care, come from...and insecticide, PCBs were banned in the...five-times higher diabetes risk. There were...that people with diabetes tend to have ...

Article: PCBs: The threat is fading.
The Boston Herald;  September 14, 1997 ;     475 words ......their property by the chemicals known as PCBs (poly chlorinated biphenyl) used for decades...exposure to mixtures of the 209 different PCBs. These fears are not entirely irrational...Environmental Protection Agency treated PCBs as very dangerous from the first reports...

Article: Living near toxic waste may bring on diabetes
The Hindustan Times;  January 6, 2007 ;     319 words ......live near toxic waste sites are hospitalised more for diabetes than those who live in clean communities, reported UPI...of organic pollutants are polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, a former industrial ingredient of pesticides, paints...Although banned from the US industries in the 1970s, PCBs still ...

Article: NO PCBS FOUND IN RADFORD'S WATER SUPPLY [Corrected 04/10/04]
Roanoke Times & World News;  April 1, 2004 ;     320 words ......s Water Department said Wednesday that PCBs have never been detected in the city's...more than 500 times the allowed levels of PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls. The quarry...said it is too early to say whether the PCBs are reaching the river. Radford Water Department...

Article: DUELING DATA Citing newer studies, some doubt PCBs cause cancer in humans
The Boston Globe;  September 29, 1997 ;     700+ words ......if his cancer was a result of his exposure to PCBs at work. "I just don't know," said Trepania...chemicals called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, is a hotly debated question. GE used PCBs for decades making a variety of electrical components...

Article: PCBs could be the next mercury.(Issues & Answers)(polychlorinated biphenyls)
Seafood Business;  December 1, 2003 ;     529 words ......the Environmental Working Group has made PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) the poster...consumer concerns about farmed salmon. PCBs are byproducts of industrial processes...transported by water, air and animals, PCBs are found almost everywhere on earth, even...

Article: Bacteria goes after PCBs: RPI researcher helps identify microbe that attacks toxic chemical.
Times Union (Albany, NY);  March 9, 2007 ;     418 words ...Byline: Dan Higgins Mar. 9--TROY -- PCBs, the toxic pollutants fouling the Hudson...Bacteria in river water naturally break down PCBs. But the process is very slow, and, for...for breaking down the chlorine in some PCBs. Once the chlorine is removed, the PCBs...

Article: Bacteria goes after PCBs; RPI researcher helps identify microbe that attacks toxic chemical.(Capital Region)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  March 9, 2007 ;     367 words ...Byline: DAN HIGGINS - Staff Writer TROY - PCBs, the toxic pollutants fouling the Hudson...Bacteria in river water naturally break down PCBs. But the process is very slow, and, for...for breaking down the chlorine in some PCBs. Once the chlorine is removed, the PCBs...

Article: Reports outline diabetes study results from National Taiwan University, Medical Department.(Report)
Diabetes Week;  September 29, 2008 ;     397 words ......high exposures to PCBs and PCDFs and the...incidence of type 2 diabetes and hypertension...previous exposure to PCBs and PCDFs, suffered...increased incidences of diabetes, particularly those...treatments against diabetes, the body burden of PCBs and dioxins should...

Article: Production of PCBs banned, but we're still exposed to them
CCPA Monitor;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...THE DEADLY LEGACY OF PCBS: PCBs were chemicals that we made because we could. Manufactured from the...described as being as near perfect as any industrial chemical can be. PCBs conduct heat but not electricity, and they are not water soluble...

Article: PCBs: measuring the danger. (Technical Briefs).
Journal of Environmental Health;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......and the Unknown Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are known to cause numerous adverse health...inconclusiveness of such studies does not mean that PCBs are safe. In fact, other studies in humans suggest that PCBs have both carcinogenic and noncarcinogenic...

Article: PCBS STILL FLOWING ENCON WEIGHS TIGHTER RULES.(Local)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  October 17, 1988 ;     700+ words ......Staff writer The state continues to permit PCBs to be discharged into waterways, a decade...considering tightening PCB restrictions. PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, are suspected...production in 1977. But EnCon officials said PCBs from old dumps and electrical equipment...