Re: [DIYbio] This seems like a true biosecurity breach

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Nathan McCorkle <nmz787@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/us/osha-emphasizes-safety-health-risks-fester.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
>
> is my definition of biosecurity too broad? Seems like this company should

That's not biosecurity. That's a breach of business ethics, ill
treatment of workers, and neglect of health and safety of workers.
It's a failure of government to protect its citizens and the failure
of corporations to look at more than the bottom line. We don't have
factory workers painting the hands of watches with radium anymore.
Why? Because it kills people and destroys livelihoods.

> have been shut down years ago, why hasn't it been?
>

It's used widely in the industry. Not just at that plant.

"A chemical she handled — known as n-propyl bromide, or nPB — is also
used by tens of thousands of workers in auto body shops, dry cleaners
and high-tech electronics manufacturing plants across the nation.
Medical researchers, government officials and even chemical companies
that once manufactured nPB have warned for over a decade that it
causes neurological damage and infertility when inhaled at low levels
over long periods, but its use has grown 15-fold in the past six
years. "

Seems to me that the increase in it's use in recent years could be
attributed to the recession. People are pretty desperate for a job.
And companies just want to cut costs.

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