An article on Saturday about the government's decision to focus on chemical agents in a new $15 million research program on illnesses among 1991 Persian Gulf war veterans misstated the initial of a former top Pentagon medical officer who said he was not yet convinced of a toxic link to the ailments.
In a series of rulings, Mr. Sandstrom and the three Republicans shredded one of the law's most important features, which was the severing of the toxic link between federal officeholders and candidates and the raising of unlimited sums from corporations, unions and rich donors.
But our authorities have done little to reverse the trend, partly because public awareness is far from adequate," says Ravi Aggarwal, director of the NGO, Toxic Links.
Mr. Ackermann said Deutsche had largely cleared its books of the toxic assets linked to the United States mortgage market.
Cooking with vegetable oil releases toxic chemicals linked to cancer and even the degeneration of the brain, according to experts.
Hypo Real Estate has hundreds of millions in shaky real estate loans on its books, as well as toxic assets linked to the subprime crisis in the United States.
The discovery of dioxin, a toxic chemical linked to an array of maladies, near Camp Carroll, in southeastern South Korea, was part of an initial report on water and soil tests being conducted by both countries.
The discovery that heating some foods can releases bad chemicals echoes other evidence this week that heating vegetable oils also releases "toxic chemicals" linked to cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.
Sinn Fein, a previously toxic party linked to terrorism, has overtaken it in some polls.That is partly thanks to the populist line it has taken against the austerity measures adopted by Ireland's government.
Despite increasing regulations aimed at cutting air pollution and groundwater contamination, not to mention criticism from groups like Greenpeace and Consumers Union, a vast majority of the nation's roughly 33,000 dry cleaners persist in using toxic chemicals linked to cancer, nervous system ailments and other health hazards.
It is also important to determine the content of toxic element linked organically to herbal foods and presumably not assimilated via the gastro-intestinal tract.
