Latest Chemical warfare Stories

SWANTON, Vt., May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- This May, AllerAir is supporting Multiple Chemical Sensitivities and Chemical Injury Associations worldwide in their effort to spread Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome awareness. AllerAir will make chemical awareness tips and a $50.00 gift certificate available via their website at www.allerair.com. Additionally, their blogs and articles will be dedicated to Multiple Chemical Sensitivities and chemical awareness topics for the month of May....

Chemists with the United States military have developed a set of ultra-strength cleaners that could be used in the aftermath of a terrorist attack. The new formulas are tough enough to get rid of nerve gas, mustard gas, radioactive isotopes, and anthrax. But they are also non-toxic, based on ingredients found in foods, cosmetics, and other consumer products. A detailed evaluation of the cleansers appears in ACS' Industrial Engineering and Chemistry Research, a bi-monthly journal.George Wagner...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., April 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), the premier national resource for chemical and biological defense, announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded the Center with a patent for the invention of a sorbent technology designed to improve efforts to decontaminate highly toxic materials. U.S. patent number 7,678,736 marks the sixth U.S. patent issued to ECBC during the 2010 fiscal year. The new sorbent...

Non-Stockpile mission destroys largest inventory of recovered chemical warfare materiel to date ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., April 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) announced that it completed its mission to destroy all non-stockpile materiel declared when the United States entered into the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international treaty mandating the destruction of our Nation's chemical warfare. This milestone also marks the...

In an ongoing effort to mirror the ability of biological tissues to respond rapidly and appropriately to changing environments, scientists from the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine have synthesized a single, multifunctional polymer material that can decontaminate both biological and chemical toxins. They described the findings recently in Biomaterials."Our lab applies biological principles to create materials that can do many things, just like our skin protects us from both...

Background: Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it is proceeding with its comprehensive, peer-reviewed examination of the safety of hydraulic fracturing. The study was requested by Congress last year WASHINGTON, March 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is the statement of Regina Hopper, President and CEO of America's Natural Gas Alliance: "The natural gas community looks forward to working with the EPA to reaffirm the safety of this longstanding practice....

Nature study reports that the molecular basis of detecting tissue-damaging chemicals goes back more 500 million yearsWaltham, MA -- Whenever you choke on acrid cigarette smoke, feel like you're burning up from a mouthful of wasabi-laced sushi, or cry while cutting raw onions and garlic, your response is being triggered by a primordial chemical sensor conserved across some 500 million years of animal evolution, report Brandeis University scientists in a study in Nature this week.Chemical...

VERO BEACH, Fla., March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Several residents in the Antilles community of Vero Beach, Florida, whose homes were built with contaminated drywall, have recently had their homes decontaminated using Sabre Environmental Services LLC's patented treatment process. Homeowners, who have used this solution to permanently solve their Chinese drywall problem, opened their homes and welcomed neighbors, builders, real estate agents, and many others at an open house and technology...

National Poison Prevention Week is March 14 - 21 SAN FRANCISCO, March 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As National Poison Prevention Week begins, the California Poison Control System announces ground-breaking new programs, including a free text messaging service, Facebook quizzes and e-cards to provide essential tips, news and information on poisoning, the 2nd leading cause of childhood injury in the U.S. With more than 2 million poisonings reported each year to poison control centers across...

LOS ANGELES, March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- For its Social Action campaign in connection with The Crazies, Participant Media has joined forces with Greenpeace and the Chemical Security Coalition to educate, engage and activate people to support the passage of chemical security legislation in the U.S. Senate. The film, which opened February 26th, deals with the horrifying effects of a mysterious toxin that contaminates the water supply of a small Midwestern town, causing insanity and death for...