"Comprehensive testing for benzene needs to be done immediately. The state needs to expeditiously take the proper steps to rid Tontitown of any toxins. In the meantime, any consideration of the ...

Benzene is a human carcinogen, the release notes, "that could potentially cause cancer depending on the level and extent of exposure." It can be absorbed through inhalation, the skin, and orally. The ...

"Comprehensive testing for benzene needs to be done immediately. The state needs to expeditiously take the proper steps to rid Tontitown of any toxins. In the meantime, any consideration of the ...

FORT WORTH Last summer, the Texas Commission on Environmental Qualitybegan testing to figure out what's coming out of natural gas facilities in the Barnett Shale. On Wednesday, the commission offered ...

US health officials warned pharmaceutical companies that certain ingredients used in drug manufacturing may risk contaminating medications with the carcinogen benzene. The Food and Drug Administration ...

Popular acne treatments were recalled due to potential contamination with benzene. Research shows that long-term exposure to benzene may increase cancer risk. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

Milford City Council has hired environmental consultants to test groundwater at a parking lot in the city's downtown area where benzene levels slightly above drinking-water standards have been found ...

The ruling follows a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit decision last month reviving a benzene class action against Bayer, after the circuit court found the plaintiffs plausibly alleged that ...