Could a solid by-product of drinking water treatment provide the answer?
Bromate (BrO3−) is a carcinogenic disinfection by-product of drinking water.
One main by-product of drinking water electrolysis is chlorine dioxide that can be formed under several conditions.
Alum sludge, a largely available by-product of drinking water facilities using aluminium salts as coagulant was used as the media.
Thus in rat liver, the tested by-products of drinking water disinfection did not demonstrate tumor-initiating activity, although a few appeared to possess tumor-promoting activity.
Hunter and colleagues (Simmons et al. 2002) have identified a series of genes that are responsive to chlorinated by-products of drinking water disinfection and that may be related to the congenital cardiovascular defects associated with high-dose exposures to some of these compounds.
Monochloroacetic acid (MCA) is a chlorination by-product of drinking water.
"Internally, we used to call it the Pavlov's dog campaign," said Adam Stagliano, president and account planning director at Weiss Stagliano, because those "very product-centric ads were about the incredible power of Guinness, and the anticipatory process of drinking the product, to get people salivating.
What began as a sunset walk to the convenience store with Dylan, who was craving vanilla-flavored coffee and Sugar Babies, evolved into hours of drinking wine product on the railroad tracks until Teddy got off work.
As a consequence of drinking the bootleggers' product, some fifteen thousand people developed a permanently crippling type of paralysis of the leg muscles, a condition that became known as "ginger paralysis".
The questionnaire sent to patients included questions on the disease, travel in and outside of Finland, dietary intake of food items (meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, and dairy products), quality of drinking water, contact with pets and other domestic animals, and swimming in water from natural sources.
