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The new Chinese take-out: with Chinese imports increasingly made up of foodstuffs, vitamins, and medicine that are proving to be dangerous, America needs to take stock of the situation.
Lucia Cruz, a 74-year-old Panamanian grandmother, and at least 365 of her countrymen died last year from ingesting tainted medicine. Somehow a deadly chemical had found its way into cough syrup produced in a government laboratory. What Panamanians thought was a harmless over-the-counter drug turned out to be an elixir of death.
Local doctors were mystified by Cruz's initial symptoms. Unable to explain the rapid onset of acute kidney failure, they directed her to a public hospital. More disturbing was the fact that Cruz was not alone. Dozens of other Panamanians were exhibiting the same symptoms. Dr. Jorge Motta, director of the Gorgas Institute, a joint ...
- China bans diethylene glycol as toothpaste ingredient.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. July 12, 2007 700+ words
China bans diethylene glycol as toothpaste ingredient...manufactures from using diethylene glycol (DEG)-- an industrial...The US Food and Drug Administration last month warned...medicine containing diethylene glycol imported from China...
- CHINA BANS DIETHYLENE GLYCOL AS TOOTHPASTE INGREDIENT.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News July 12, 2007 700+ words
...domestic enterprises from using diethylene glycol (DEG) as an ingredient...took medicine containing diethylene glycol imported from China sparked...China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) Zheng Xiaoyu, was...
- Sen. Brown Introduces Bill Concerning Temporary Duty Suspension on...
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News November 17, 2009 700+ words
...temporarily the duty on Caprolactone-Diethylene Glycol Copolymers." The bill introduced...temporarily the duty on Caprolactone-Diethylene Glycol Copolymers. Be it enacted by the...assembled, SECTION 1. CAPROLACTONE-DIETHYLENE GLYCOL COPOLYMERS. (a) In General- Subchapter...
- Chemical Profile.(DIETHYLENE GLYCOL demand and production)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Chemical Market Reporter October 1, 2001 700+ words
DIETHYLENE GLYCOL October 1, 2001 DEMAND 1999: 820 million pounds; 2000: 838...Geismar, La. 110 Total 839 (*)Millions of pounds per year of diethylene glycol (DEG), derived as a coproduct with ethylene glycol and triethylene...
- DIETHYLENE GLYCOL.(BASF to raise prices)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Chemical Market Reporter December 18, 2000 700+ words
BASF Corporation will raise its off-schedule selling price for diethylene glycol by 3c. per pound, effective January 1.
- Dielectric studies of the polymerization of diethylene glycol bis(allyl...
- Magazine article from: Polymer Engineering and Science De Meuse, M. August 1, 1993 700+ words
...performed on a monomer that crosslinks through allylic double bonds. The monomer, which is depicted in Fig. 1, is named diethylene glycol bis (allyl carbonate), and the polymerization occurs through a free radical mechanism. Because of its high optical...
- DIETHYLENE GLYCOL.(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
- Magazine article from: Chemical Market Reporter February 14, 2000 700+ words
The proposed January 1 increase in contract prices of 3c. per pound has been under pressure because of reduced demand from large-volume buyers, Mr. West says. He notes that supplies are ample despite recent outage-related tightness, and barge prices f.o.b. US Gulf are 20.5c. per pound. He adds that
- Kinetics of the free-radical copolymerization of isobornyl methacrylate and...
- Magazine article from: Polymer Engineering and Science Soule, E.R. Borrajo, J. Williams, R.J.J. November 1, 2006 700+ words
INTRODUCTION A large number of mechanistic kinetic models with different degrees of complexity have been reported in the literature to describe free-radical crosslinking polymerizations. Several significant factors affecting the reaction rate were successively recognized and incorporated into these
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