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Like Palma, most are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_177434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-177434 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/04/IMG_0977_0-e1461788970527.jpg\" alt=\"This hydrant, installed over a year ago, is still not hooked up to running water.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This hydrant, installed over a year ago, is still not hooked up to running water. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KVPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Palma and her neighbor Javier Medina, took me on a tour of the neighborhood. We saw a lot of bright yellow fire hydrants that looked brand-new, but Palma and Medina said they didn't work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because they are waiting to be hooked up to water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley Werner of the nonprofit advocacy group the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leadershipcounsel.org/#!about/cjn9\">Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability\u003c/a> says people in unincorporated communities like Matheny Tract have been fighting for clean water for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Effectively in local government, often there’s no elected representatives claiming to have any responsibility to ensure that people have access to clean water,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Matheny’s case, getting water from the nearby city of Tulare seemed like an obvious solution. The city is so close, Palma can point to it from her backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Matheny and Tulare signed a contract to connect their water systems. Roads were dug up and hydrants put in place. But in 2014, the city sued to re-evaluate the contract. Construction stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_177435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-177435 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/04/IMG_1009_0-e1461789066582.jpg\" alt=\"Scars of dark pavement in Matheny Tract's roads remind residents of the water mains that are still not hooked up to water.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scars of dark pavement in Matheny Tract's roads remind residents of the water mains that are still not hooked up to water. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KVPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We did not have capacity to serve 300 homes at a turn of the switch, \" says Martin Koczanowicz, Tulare's city attorney. \"We spent over half a million dollars in short-term fixes to our infrastructure, and we had jurisdictional issues which were a barrier.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ashley Werner says the community’s residents -- mostly immigrants, farmworkers, and minorities -- felt discriminated against. With the help of Werner’s group, Matheny countersued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a lack of responsibility on the part of elected officials to the residents of Matheny Tract,\" says Werner. \"In a sense, by everybody involved, that they had no duty and no commitment to this community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"3syvmgeeaRwdP3TVOQNBOwaofFQPiC0D\"]Matheny and Tulare remained in a legal stalemate until March of this year, when the state intervened under a new law. \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB88\">Senate Bill 88\u003c/a> allows the state to order a city to share its water with communities that need it. Matheny Tract is the law’s first success. By June, Tulare will be forced to share its drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting clean water is a huge relief for Javier Medina. He’s a dairy worker, and his family of six has been using bottled water. He’s glad that the state stepped in. But he wishes it hadn’t been necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We live in the best country in the world and everyone should be looking out for everyone’s well-being,\" says Medina. \"Everyone should try to find a way to help their neighbor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matheny Tract should have safe drinking water soon, but hundreds of California communities still don’t. Maybe some of them are your neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/261171293\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The two community wells in Matheny Tract were contaminated with arsenic. Advocates turned to new state law to force nearby Tulare to share its clean drinking water. 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Reinelda Palma knows about it firsthand. She drank the tap water until a few years ago, when a doctor told her that she had been exposed to arsenic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was very traumatic when the doctor told me that I had high arsenic contamination in my body,\" she says in Spanish. \"And I thought, if this is happening to me, then this must be happening to everyone, including the children.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when she became an advocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matheny Tract is not a city or a town. It’s unincorporated, which means it has no elected government, and it’s hard to get services like sidewalks or streetlights. About 1,200 people live here, and almost a third of them live below the federal poverty line. Like Palma, most are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_177434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-177434 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/04/IMG_0977_0-e1461788970527.jpg\" alt=\"This hydrant, installed over a year ago, is still not hooked up to running water.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This hydrant, installed over a year ago, is still not hooked up to running water. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KVPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Palma and her neighbor Javier Medina, took me on a tour of the neighborhood. We saw a lot of bright yellow fire hydrants that looked brand-new, but Palma and Medina said they didn't work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because they are waiting to be hooked up to water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley Werner of the nonprofit advocacy group the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leadershipcounsel.org/#!about/cjn9\">Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability\u003c/a> says people in unincorporated communities like Matheny Tract have been fighting for clean water for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Effectively in local government, often there’s no elected representatives claiming to have any responsibility to ensure that people have access to clean water,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Matheny’s case, getting water from the nearby city of Tulare seemed like an obvious solution. The city is so close, Palma can point to it from her backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Matheny and Tulare signed a contract to connect their water systems. Roads were dug up and hydrants put in place. But in 2014, the city sued to re-evaluate the contract. Construction stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_177435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-177435 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/04/IMG_1009_0-e1461789066582.jpg\" alt=\"Scars of dark pavement in Matheny Tract's roads remind residents of the water mains that are still not hooked up to water.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scars of dark pavement in Matheny Tract's roads remind residents of the water mains that are still not hooked up to water. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KVPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We did not have capacity to serve 300 homes at a turn of the switch, \" says Martin Koczanowicz, Tulare's city attorney. \"We spent over half a million dollars in short-term fixes to our infrastructure, and we had jurisdictional issues which were a barrier.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ashley Werner says the community’s residents -- mostly immigrants, farmworkers, and minorities -- felt discriminated against. With the help of Werner’s group, Matheny countersued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a lack of responsibility on the part of elected officials to the residents of Matheny Tract,\" says Werner. \"In a sense, by everybody involved, that they had no duty and no commitment to this community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Matheny and Tulare remained in a legal stalemate until March of this year, when the state intervened under a new law. \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB88\">Senate Bill 88\u003c/a> allows the state to order a city to share its water with communities that need it. Matheny Tract is the law’s first success. By June, Tulare will be forced to share its drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting clean water is a huge relief for Javier Medina. He’s a dairy worker, and his family of six has been using bottled water. He’s glad that the state stepped in. But he wishes it hadn’t been necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We live in the best country in the world and everyone should be looking out for everyone’s well-being,\" says Medina. \"Everyone should try to find a way to help their neighbor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matheny Tract should have safe drinking water soon, but hundreds of California communities still don’t. Maybe some of them are your neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/261171293&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/261171293'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/177403/california-central-valley-clean-water-law-arsenic","authors":["byline_stateofhealth_177403"],"categories":["stateofhealth_14","stateofhealth_2746"],"tags":["stateofhealth_20","stateofhealth_2519","stateofhealth_461","stateofhealth_2735","stateofhealth_2610"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_177436","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_174428":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_174428","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"174428","score":null,"sort":[1461016615000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"john-oliver-recruits-sesame-street-to-sing-about-lead-poisoning-video","title":"John Oliver Recruits 'Sesame Street' to Sing About Lead Poisoning (Video)","publishDate":1461016615,"format":"video","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cp>John Oliver turned his righteous outrage to lead poisoning in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUizvEjR-0U\" target=\"_blank\">weekly show \u003c/a>last night. And, as he tends to do, did it with humor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no safe level of lead,\" Oliver said. \"It's one of those things so dangerous that you shouldn't even let a little bit inside you, like heroin, or Jeremy Piven.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started with the Flint, Michigan water crisis and expanded from there, pointing out that there are 2.1 million homes in the U.S. where children under age six live that also have a lead dust hazard. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6213a3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">estimates that 535,000 children\u003c/a> under age six have an elevated blood lead level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lead is almost as much a scourge in young children's homes as 'Frozen' merchandise,\" he said, to laughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead is a naturally occurring mineral, but is toxic to humans, especially children, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs379/en/\" target=\"_blank\">can lead to irreversible neurodevelopmental \u003c/a>problems, including intellectual disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oliver recounted the \"major public health victory\" starting in the U.S. in the 1970s when lead was removed from paint and then from gasoline. Children's blood lead levels plummeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, the federal government determined that totally removing lead from all homes, nationwide, would cost $16.6 billion every year for a decade, a very steep price tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the federal government funded a lead hazard control program in homes where families where low-income families lived. While $230 million was recommended, the HUD's Lead Hazard Control Program was never funded above $176 million, Oliver said, and has been steadily declining since 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the allocation is $110 million, not even as much as Ride Along 2 \u003ca href=\"http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Ride-Along-2#tab=summary\" target=\"_blank\">has made so far\u003c/a>, a movie the \u003ca href=\"http://nypost.com/2016/01/13/the-worst-part-about-being-a-movie-critic-ride-along-2/\" target=\"_blank\">New York Post said \u003c/a>was \"as funny as lead poisoning.\" (How Oliver put those facts together, I don't know, but it' s true, follow the links.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oliver turned to all manner of archival news clips during his history lesson, including a 20-year-old clip from \"Sesame Street\" featuring a song about protecting yourself from lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's clearly time to address the problem again,\" Oliver said, and went off to visit \"Sesame Street\" where Elmo, Rosita and even Oscar teamed up to sing a song motivating everyone to conquer the problem.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"\"Lead is almost as much a scourge in young children's homes as 'Frozen' merchandise.\"","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1461112587,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":385},"headData":{"title":"John Oliver Recruits 'Sesame Street' to Sing About Lead Poisoning (Video) | KQED","description":""Lead is almost as much a scourge in young children's homes as 'Frozen' merchandise."","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"John Oliver Recruits 'Sesame Street' to Sing About Lead Poisoning (Video)","datePublished":"2016-04-18T21:56:55.000Z","dateModified":"2016-04-20T00:36:27.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"174428 http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=174428","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/04/18/john-oliver-recruits-sesame-street-to-sing-about-lead-poisoning-video/","disqusTitle":"John Oliver Recruits 'Sesame Street' to Sing About Lead Poisoning (Video)","videoEmbed":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUizvEjR-0U","path":"/stateofhealth/174428/john-oliver-recruits-sesame-street-to-sing-about-lead-poisoning-video","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>John Oliver turned his righteous outrage to lead poisoning in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUizvEjR-0U\" target=\"_blank\">weekly show \u003c/a>last night. And, as he tends to do, did it with humor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no safe level of lead,\" Oliver said. \"It's one of those things so dangerous that you shouldn't even let a little bit inside you, like heroin, or Jeremy Piven.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started with the Flint, Michigan water crisis and expanded from there, pointing out that there are 2.1 million homes in the U.S. where children under age six live that also have a lead dust hazard. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6213a3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">estimates that 535,000 children\u003c/a> under age six have an elevated blood lead level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lead is almost as much a scourge in young children's homes as 'Frozen' merchandise,\" he said, to laughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead is a naturally occurring mineral, but is toxic to humans, especially children, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs379/en/\" target=\"_blank\">can lead to irreversible neurodevelopmental \u003c/a>problems, including intellectual disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oliver recounted the \"major public health victory\" starting in the U.S. in the 1970s when lead was removed from paint and then from gasoline. Children's blood lead levels plummeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, the federal government determined that totally removing lead from all homes, nationwide, would cost $16.6 billion every year for a decade, a very steep price tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the federal government funded a lead hazard control program in homes where families where low-income families lived. While $230 million was recommended, the HUD's Lead Hazard Control Program was never funded above $176 million, Oliver said, and has been steadily declining since 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the allocation is $110 million, not even as much as Ride Along 2 \u003ca href=\"http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Ride-Along-2#tab=summary\" target=\"_blank\">has made so far\u003c/a>, a movie the \u003ca href=\"http://nypost.com/2016/01/13/the-worst-part-about-being-a-movie-critic-ride-along-2/\" target=\"_blank\">New York Post said \u003c/a>was \"as funny as lead poisoning.\" (How Oliver put those facts together, I don't know, but it' s true, follow the links.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oliver turned to all manner of archival news clips during his history lesson, including a 20-year-old clip from \"Sesame Street\" featuring a song about protecting yourself from lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's clearly time to address the problem again,\" Oliver said, and went off to visit \"Sesame Street\" where Elmo, Rosita and even Oscar teamed up to sing a song motivating everyone to conquer the problem.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/174428/john-oliver-recruits-sesame-street-to-sing-about-lead-poisoning-video","authors":["240"],"categories":["stateofhealth_11"],"tags":["stateofhealth_2598","stateofhealth_20","stateofhealth_268","stateofhealth_461"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_174444","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_160092":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_160092","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"160092","score":null,"sort":[1458062646000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fear-of-future-health-problems-plagues-porter-ranch-gas-leak-victims","title":"Fear Of Future Health Problems Plagues Porter Ranch Gas Leak Victims","publishDate":1458062646,"format":"standard","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cp>Kavita Ramchandani loved everything about evenings in her backyard: how the full moon lit up the sky, the way the breeze seemed to talk to her, the smell of the pine trees. She bought the single-story hillside house in this upscale Los Angeles County suburb after emigrating from India, and from the first night it felt like home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then last fall, gas started leaking from a well at a nearby storage facility, and Ramchandani, 53, began wheezing, getting nose bleeds and persistent headaches. She left her home in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, she says, the house just feels foreign. And scary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Khanlian, a 39-year old Porter Ranch resident, said he, too, became really worried after his 2-year-old daughter got a body rash and his sons, 5 and 8, had several bloody noses, stomachaches and burning eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started feeling horrible too — with nausea and body aches. “It felt like someone was hammering my head,” Khanlian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Southern California Gas Company announced Feb. 18 that after nearly four months, it had permanently sealed the leaking well, and residents who had evacuated their homes could safely return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gas company, which had been picking up the tab for evacuees staying in hotels and motels, said it would pay for one additional week. But a Superior Court judge ordered the gas company on March 2 to continue paying for the temporary accommodations until March 18, allowing time for more air testing. The company said it has paid about $36 million in relocation expenses for about 3,400 households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramchandani said she can’t afford to pay for the hotel once the gas company stops footing the bill, but she fears returning to Porter Ranch. “I’m worried about my health,” she said. “What if the breathlessness continues? What will I do then?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massive and unprecedented leak at the Aliso Canyon storage facility prompted Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a state of emergency in early January. Criminal charges and civil lawsuits against the gas company followed. Community leaders and politicians demanded more regulation of the aging facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators in Sacramento have jumped into the fray, proposing a bill to require more testing before the company can restart operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leak has fueled concerns about the long-term health of residents exposed to methane, benzene and other chemicals. As part of his emergency declaration, Brown pledged to convene an independent panel of medical and scientific experts to review potential health risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents have reported symptoms such as coughing, dizziness, stomachaches and nausea, according to the Los Angeles County Public Health Department. Department officials have said the symptoms should stop now that the well has been sealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ramchandani and others are worried that their health problems will continue — or worsen — when they go home. They fear what could happen in the future because of their recent exposure to the gas and chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials maintain that the risk of long-term health problems is small. They say the main component in the emissions from the facility was methane, an odorless gas that doesn’t generally cause health problems when inhaled. The storage facility also released mercaptans, pungent smelling gases that are added to make a leak easy to detect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leaking gas also contained benzene — a carcinogen — and other related chemicals. But health officials said benzene levels during the leak were no greater in Porter Ranch than in other areas of Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We already have bad air in Los Angeles,” said Cyrus Rangan, who directs the toxicology and environmental assessment bureau for the L.A. County Department of Public Health. “You’d never say our air is the best in the world overall. But at least we can say we are not looking at levels that are far and above what you would normally breathe here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment also evaluated air samples collected by the gas company between November and January and determined that none of the potentially harmful compounds in the leaked emissions were at high enough concentrations to pose serious health problems. Any increase in cancer risk to people in Porter Ranch is therefore very small, the office concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rangan said the vast majority of the symptoms are due to the odorants, which can irritate the eyes, skin and respiratory system. He said the emissions are not associated with lasting health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is convinced. Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman, who lives in Porter Ranch, said he’s concerned that the level of benzene was above standards on at least several days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would guess that this not going to turn out to be as significant as Flint, Michigan, but that is a guess from somebody who didn’t go to medical school,” Sherman said. “It’s not enough to plug the well. You’ve got to make sure that the air is pure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_160130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 770px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/03/porter-ranch-6.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-160130\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-160130\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/03/porter-ranch-6.jpg\" alt=\"Jacki Swift, 53, at her rental house in Chatsworth, Calif. on on Tuesday, February 16, 2016. After the leak started, Swift’s family relocated but she believes the new house isn’t far enough away from the Porter Ranch gas leak.\" width=\"770\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/03/porter-ranch-6.jpg 770w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/03/porter-ranch-6-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/03/porter-ranch-6-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacki Swift, 53, at her rental house in Chatsworth, Calif. on on Tuesday, February 16, 2016. After the leak started, Swift’s family relocated but she believes the new house isn’t far enough away from the Porter Ranch gas leak. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The public health department and the South Coast Air Quality Management District are continuing to monitor the air. Residents are also being asked to report ongoing odors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the gas company also began assessing homes where residents have reported brown spots that might be residue from the leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gas company officials said the residue is not likely to be in many residential air ducts, which are sealed in most homes so outside air does not enter. In the “very few systems” that do take in some air from the outside, filters should stop particles from circulating in the home, the company said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Danko, an attorney representing Porter Ranch residents in one of the civil lawsuits, said he believes the gas company has understated the impact without strong data. Only time will tell how the leak ultimately affects the residents’ health, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no question that the bloody noses, the nausea, the skin irritation is going to pass with time,” Danko said. “The people now have to live under a cloud of what is going to happen 10, 20, 30 years down the road. No one should have to live with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Jeffrey Nordella, medical director at Porter Ranch Quality Care, which provides both primary and urgent care, said he immediately saw an uptick in patients with common symptoms last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nordella said he has been screening patients with blood work, chest x-rays and lung function tests. One morning in late February, Ramchandani came in for a follow-up visit. The Bollywood singer told him she didn’t have a history of breathing problems but that her wheezing had been so bad she had to turn down work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pulling up her test results, Nordella informed her she had limited lung function. He prescribed an inhaler and suggested a visit to a pulmonologist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramchandani is anxious about what is to come. “Constantly at the back of mind, I am thinking, ‘What if I get cancer?’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why we need to keep following you,” Nordella told her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a shopping center across the street sit two storefronts set up by the gas company, where residents can request air purifiers and weather stripping. They can also file reimbursement claims and ask a toxicologist questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacki Swift, 53, said she has gone to the center several times to ask for help. After the leak started, she and her family packed up their dog, their clothes and their grandson’s toys and relocated to a rented home in Chatsworth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting on a rented couch in the living room one day last month, Swift said she believed the new house wasn’t far enough away from Porter Ranch. Her headaches have continued, and her daughter continues to get bright red, itchy rashes all over her body, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really scary,” Swift said. “I feel like we are guinea pigs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every time they go to Porter Ranch to get the mail or check on their house, the symptoms get worse, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swift said she wonders if the gas company knows more than they are saying about the chemicals. “I think they are choosing their words carefully to diminish our fears, to make us feel safe,” she said. “But I don’t feel safe. I want to know if there are toxins in my home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swift wants to move out of the area but knows that could be difficult because, “who is going to buy a house in Porter Ranch?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanlian, on the other hand, said he just wants to move back home. He has lived in Porter Ranch for nearly 15 years and owns two homes in the area. He is the secretary of his homeowners’ association and part of a community group called “Save Porter Ranch,” which opposes oil and gas drilling and pre-dates the recent leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctors told Khanlian they didn’t know what was causing his family’s symptoms, which he said had begun before the gas company announced the leak. But Khanlian suspected it had something to do with an unbearable smell of gas outside. He told his children they couldn’t ride their bikes or go in the swimming pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the gas company announced the leak, and Khanlian and his family relocated to Reseda. As the smell subsided, the family moved back in briefly, but left again after Khanlian’s wife, Aleeza, started suffering a recurrence of nausea and headaches. Khanlian wants the gas company to test the soil, water and air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From his front door in Porter Ranch, he can look up at the hill where the once-leaking well sits. He said he expects more problems in the future. “The whole facility is so outdated,” he said. “How do we know we aren’t going to have another gas leak?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Khanlian said, he is closely monitoring his family’s symptoms and hoping the officials are right that the health effects of the gas leak will be short-lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A month after the leak was sealed, concerns remain about the long-term health of residents exposed to methane, benzene and other chemicals. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1458066513,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":45,"wordCount":1787},"headData":{"title":"Fear Of Future Health Problems Plagues Porter Ranch Gas Leak Victims | KQED","description":"A month after the leak was sealed, concerns remain about the long-term health of residents exposed to methane, benzene and other chemicals. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Fear Of Future Health Problems Plagues Porter Ranch Gas Leak Victims","datePublished":"2016-03-15T17:24:06.000Z","dateModified":"2016-03-15T18:28:33.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"160092 http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=160092","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/03/15/fear-of-future-health-problems-plagues-porter-ranch-gas-leak-victims/","disqusTitle":"Fear Of Future Health Problems Plagues Porter Ranch Gas Leak Victims","nprByline":"Anna Gorman\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"http://californiahealthline.org/\">California Healthline\u003c/a>","path":"/stateofhealth/160092/fear-of-future-health-problems-plagues-porter-ranch-gas-leak-victims","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Kavita Ramchandani loved everything about evenings in her backyard: how the full moon lit up the sky, the way the breeze seemed to talk to her, the smell of the pine trees. She bought the single-story hillside house in this upscale Los Angeles County suburb after emigrating from India, and from the first night it felt like home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then last fall, gas started leaking from a well at a nearby storage facility, and Ramchandani, 53, began wheezing, getting nose bleeds and persistent headaches. She left her home in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, she says, the house just feels foreign. And scary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Khanlian, a 39-year old Porter Ranch resident, said he, too, became really worried after his 2-year-old daughter got a body rash and his sons, 5 and 8, had several bloody noses, stomachaches and burning eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started feeling horrible too — with nausea and body aches. “It felt like someone was hammering my head,” Khanlian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Southern California Gas Company announced Feb. 18 that after nearly four months, it had permanently sealed the leaking well, and residents who had evacuated their homes could safely return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gas company, which had been picking up the tab for evacuees staying in hotels and motels, said it would pay for one additional week. But a Superior Court judge ordered the gas company on March 2 to continue paying for the temporary accommodations until March 18, allowing time for more air testing. The company said it has paid about $36 million in relocation expenses for about 3,400 households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramchandani said she can’t afford to pay for the hotel once the gas company stops footing the bill, but she fears returning to Porter Ranch. “I’m worried about my health,” she said. “What if the breathlessness continues? What will I do then?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massive and unprecedented leak at the Aliso Canyon storage facility prompted Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a state of emergency in early January. Criminal charges and civil lawsuits against the gas company followed. Community leaders and politicians demanded more regulation of the aging facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators in Sacramento have jumped into the fray, proposing a bill to require more testing before the company can restart operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leak has fueled concerns about the long-term health of residents exposed to methane, benzene and other chemicals. As part of his emergency declaration, Brown pledged to convene an independent panel of medical and scientific experts to review potential health risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents have reported symptoms such as coughing, dizziness, stomachaches and nausea, according to the Los Angeles County Public Health Department. Department officials have said the symptoms should stop now that the well has been sealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ramchandani and others are worried that their health problems will continue — or worsen — when they go home. They fear what could happen in the future because of their recent exposure to the gas and chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials maintain that the risk of long-term health problems is small. They say the main component in the emissions from the facility was methane, an odorless gas that doesn’t generally cause health problems when inhaled. The storage facility also released mercaptans, pungent smelling gases that are added to make a leak easy to detect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leaking gas also contained benzene — a carcinogen — and other related chemicals. But health officials said benzene levels during the leak were no greater in Porter Ranch than in other areas of Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We already have bad air in Los Angeles,” said Cyrus Rangan, who directs the toxicology and environmental assessment bureau for the L.A. County Department of Public Health. “You’d never say our air is the best in the world overall. But at least we can say we are not looking at levels that are far and above what you would normally breathe here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment also evaluated air samples collected by the gas company between November and January and determined that none of the potentially harmful compounds in the leaked emissions were at high enough concentrations to pose serious health problems. Any increase in cancer risk to people in Porter Ranch is therefore very small, the office concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rangan said the vast majority of the symptoms are due to the odorants, which can irritate the eyes, skin and respiratory system. He said the emissions are not associated with lasting health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is convinced. Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman, who lives in Porter Ranch, said he’s concerned that the level of benzene was above standards on at least several days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would guess that this not going to turn out to be as significant as Flint, Michigan, but that is a guess from somebody who didn’t go to medical school,” Sherman said. “It’s not enough to plug the well. You’ve got to make sure that the air is pure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_160130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 770px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/03/porter-ranch-6.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-160130\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-160130\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/03/porter-ranch-6.jpg\" alt=\"Jacki Swift, 53, at her rental house in Chatsworth, Calif. on on Tuesday, February 16, 2016. After the leak started, Swift’s family relocated but she believes the new house isn’t far enough away from the Porter Ranch gas leak.\" width=\"770\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/03/porter-ranch-6.jpg 770w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/03/porter-ranch-6-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/03/porter-ranch-6-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacki Swift, 53, at her rental house in Chatsworth, Calif. on on Tuesday, February 16, 2016. After the leak started, Swift’s family relocated but she believes the new house isn’t far enough away from the Porter Ranch gas leak. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The public health department and the South Coast Air Quality Management District are continuing to monitor the air. Residents are also being asked to report ongoing odors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the gas company also began assessing homes where residents have reported brown spots that might be residue from the leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gas company officials said the residue is not likely to be in many residential air ducts, which are sealed in most homes so outside air does not enter. In the “very few systems” that do take in some air from the outside, filters should stop particles from circulating in the home, the company said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Danko, an attorney representing Porter Ranch residents in one of the civil lawsuits, said he believes the gas company has understated the impact without strong data. Only time will tell how the leak ultimately affects the residents’ health, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no question that the bloody noses, the nausea, the skin irritation is going to pass with time,” Danko said. “The people now have to live under a cloud of what is going to happen 10, 20, 30 years down the road. No one should have to live with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Jeffrey Nordella, medical director at Porter Ranch Quality Care, which provides both primary and urgent care, said he immediately saw an uptick in patients with common symptoms last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nordella said he has been screening patients with blood work, chest x-rays and lung function tests. One morning in late February, Ramchandani came in for a follow-up visit. The Bollywood singer told him she didn’t have a history of breathing problems but that her wheezing had been so bad she had to turn down work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pulling up her test results, Nordella informed her she had limited lung function. He prescribed an inhaler and suggested a visit to a pulmonologist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramchandani is anxious about what is to come. “Constantly at the back of mind, I am thinking, ‘What if I get cancer?’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why we need to keep following you,” Nordella told her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a shopping center across the street sit two storefronts set up by the gas company, where residents can request air purifiers and weather stripping. They can also file reimbursement claims and ask a toxicologist questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacki Swift, 53, said she has gone to the center several times to ask for help. After the leak started, she and her family packed up their dog, their clothes and their grandson’s toys and relocated to a rented home in Chatsworth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting on a rented couch in the living room one day last month, Swift said she believed the new house wasn’t far enough away from Porter Ranch. Her headaches have continued, and her daughter continues to get bright red, itchy rashes all over her body, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really scary,” Swift said. “I feel like we are guinea pigs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every time they go to Porter Ranch to get the mail or check on their house, the symptoms get worse, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swift said she wonders if the gas company knows more than they are saying about the chemicals. “I think they are choosing their words carefully to diminish our fears, to make us feel safe,” she said. “But I don’t feel safe. I want to know if there are toxins in my home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swift wants to move out of the area but knows that could be difficult because, “who is going to buy a house in Porter Ranch?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanlian, on the other hand, said he just wants to move back home. He has lived in Porter Ranch for nearly 15 years and owns two homes in the area. He is the secretary of his homeowners’ association and part of a community group called “Save Porter Ranch,” which opposes oil and gas drilling and pre-dates the recent leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctors told Khanlian they didn’t know what was causing his family’s symptoms, which he said had begun before the gas company announced the leak. But Khanlian suspected it had something to do with an unbearable smell of gas outside. He told his children they couldn’t ride their bikes or go in the swimming pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the gas company announced the leak, and Khanlian and his family relocated to Reseda. As the smell subsided, the family moved back in briefly, but left again after Khanlian’s wife, Aleeza, started suffering a recurrence of nausea and headaches. Khanlian wants the gas company to test the soil, water and air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From his front door in Porter Ranch, he can look up at the hill where the once-leaking well sits. He said he expects more problems in the future. “The whole facility is so outdated,” he said. “How do we know we aren’t going to have another gas leak?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Khanlian said, he is closely monitoring his family’s symptoms and hoping the officials are right that the health effects of the gas leak will be short-lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/160092/fear-of-future-health-problems-plagues-porter-ranch-gas-leak-victims","authors":["byline_stateofhealth_160092"],"categories":["stateofhealth_11"],"tags":["stateofhealth_20","stateofhealth_2519"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_160128","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_156734":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_156734","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"156734","score":null,"sort":[1457337685000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"big-drop-in-chemical-levels-in-girls-who-switched-cosmetics","title":"Big Drop in Chemical Levels in Girls Who Switched Cosmetics","publishDate":1457337685,"format":"standard","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cp>Teenage girls who switched cosmetics for just three days had a big drop in certain chemicals in their bodies, according to a new study from researchers at UC Berkeley and Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team looked at four chemicals used in cosmetics, shampoos and lotions. These chemicals, known as \"hormone disruptors,\" can interfere with estrogen and testosterone in the human body. The four chemicals were:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>phthalates \u003c/strong>-- found in nail polish and fragrance\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>parabens \u003c/strong>-- a preservative used in cosmetics\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong> triclosan\u003c/strong> -- an antibacterial agent\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>oxybenzone\u003c/strong> -- a sunscreen agent\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In the study, 100 Latina girls in the Salinas area swapped their cosmetics and other personal care products for new ones that did not include the four chemicals on their labels. Researchers took urine samples before and after the three-day test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, the girls showed a 25-45 percent drop in the levels of the four chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reducing Exposure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead author Kim Harley, associate director of UC Berkeley's Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health, said this type of approach had never been studied before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We hoped that if we changed to lower-chemical products, we would see significant reductions,\" Harley said. \"So that was positive for us, that we found that you really could reduce your exposure to these chemicals through these changes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study was published in the journal \u003ca href=\"http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Health Perspectives\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harley said there's \"a lot we don't know yet\" about the effects of these chemicals in the human body, but some human research shows \"they are associated with neurodevelopment problems in children, respiratory problems like asthma in children and obesity problems.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason the study was done on teenage girls is because they tend to use more personal care products than adult women and because adolescence may be a time of particular risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Adolescence is a time of rapid growth and development,\" Harley said. \"It's physical growth, reproductive development, brain development, all happening in adolescence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no identified safe level of the four chemicals, Harley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limited FDA Authority\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Food and Drug Administration is responsible for regulating cosmetic products, their authority over these products is different than it is with drugs. Specifically, there is no \"pre-market\" approval. Instead, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/Cosmetics/GuidanceRegulation/LawsRegulations/ucm074162.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the FDA says on its website\u003c/a>, \"Companies and individuals who manufacture or market cosmetics have a legal responsibility to ensure the safety of their products.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Teens Helped Design Study\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find products that were free of the four chemicals, the researchers referred to consumer resources, including the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group's SkinDeep Cosmetics Database\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Berkeley and Clinica de Salud researchers worked in tandem with a team of teen members of the CHAMACOS \u003ca href=\"http://cerch.org/research-programs/chamacos/chamacos-community-outreach/youth-community-council/\" target=\"_blank\">Youth Community Council\u003c/a>, a leadership training program for Salinas high school students. The student leaders helped design the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maritza Cardenas, a former council member, is an author of the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking back, in such a short period of time\" using products that did not have the four chemicals in them, Cardenas said, \"and to realize that made such a big difference to hormone-disrupting levels in my body, was really amazing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cardenas worked on the study between her junior and senior year of high school. Now she is a junior majoring in molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley. She said she remains conscious of what she's buying, although \"some of the products that might be more natural or organic might be a little more expensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University researchers designing a study in coordination with teenagers is unusual. But the hope was to engage the students in public health education. The youth council included many teens from immigrant families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a great way for us to cross cultural barriers and language barriers by first educating the teenagers and then having them go home and educate their families,” Cardenas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While research is thin and cannot show the health benefits of switching to low-chemical products, Harley said the natural levels of hormones in the human body act at very low level, \"at a parts per billion level.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any additional chemicals -- in this case, from personal care products -- \"can act on very low levels also,\" she said. \"So it seems like things we can do to reduce the levels of the hormone-disrupting chemicals ... can potentially help our health in the long term.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/enviroblog/2016/03/nationwide-poll-finds-overwhelming-support-stronger-cosmetics-regulation\" target=\"_blank\">recent poll\u003c/a> showed that 70 percent of likely voters believe the government should be responsible for making sure chemicals in personal care products are safe. Senators Dianne Feinstein, D-California, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, have \u003ca href=\"http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve/?File_id=445a9268-4964-4de0-89f9-4caf577099f2\" target=\"_blank\">introduced bipartisan legislation\u003c/a> to give the FDA more authority over regulating personal care products.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"UC Berkeley study finds that girls who switched for just three days to cosmetics labelled free of certain chemicals saw a significant drop.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1458327790,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":783},"headData":{"title":"Big Drop in Chemical Levels in Girls Who Switched Cosmetics | KQED","description":"UC Berkeley study finds that girls who switched for just three days to cosmetics labelled free of certain chemicals saw a significant drop.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Big Drop in Chemical Levels in Girls Who Switched Cosmetics","datePublished":"2016-03-07T08:01:25.000Z","dateModified":"2016-03-18T19:03:10.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"156734 http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=156734","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/03/07/big-drop-in-chemical-levels-in-girls-who-switched-cosmetics/","disqusTitle":"Big Drop in Chemical Levels in Girls Who Switched Cosmetics","path":"/stateofhealth/156734/big-drop-in-chemical-levels-in-girls-who-switched-cosmetics","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Teenage girls who switched cosmetics for just three days had a big drop in certain chemicals in their bodies, according to a new study from researchers at UC Berkeley and Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team looked at four chemicals used in cosmetics, shampoos and lotions. These chemicals, known as \"hormone disruptors,\" can interfere with estrogen and testosterone in the human body. The four chemicals were:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>phthalates \u003c/strong>-- found in nail polish and fragrance\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>parabens \u003c/strong>-- a preservative used in cosmetics\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong> triclosan\u003c/strong> -- an antibacterial agent\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>oxybenzone\u003c/strong> -- a sunscreen agent\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In the study, 100 Latina girls in the Salinas area swapped their cosmetics and other personal care products for new ones that did not include the four chemicals on their labels. Researchers took urine samples before and after the three-day test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, the girls showed a 25-45 percent drop in the levels of the four chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reducing Exposure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead author Kim Harley, associate director of UC Berkeley's Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health, said this type of approach had never been studied before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We hoped that if we changed to lower-chemical products, we would see significant reductions,\" Harley said. \"So that was positive for us, that we found that you really could reduce your exposure to these chemicals through these changes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study was published in the journal \u003ca href=\"http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Health Perspectives\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harley said there's \"a lot we don't know yet\" about the effects of these chemicals in the human body, but some human research shows \"they are associated with neurodevelopment problems in children, respiratory problems like asthma in children and obesity problems.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason the study was done on teenage girls is because they tend to use more personal care products than adult women and because adolescence may be a time of particular risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Adolescence is a time of rapid growth and development,\" Harley said. \"It's physical growth, reproductive development, brain development, all happening in adolescence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no identified safe level of the four chemicals, Harley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limited FDA Authority\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Food and Drug Administration is responsible for regulating cosmetic products, their authority over these products is different than it is with drugs. Specifically, there is no \"pre-market\" approval. Instead, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/Cosmetics/GuidanceRegulation/LawsRegulations/ucm074162.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the FDA says on its website\u003c/a>, \"Companies and individuals who manufacture or market cosmetics have a legal responsibility to ensure the safety of their products.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Teens Helped Design Study\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find products that were free of the four chemicals, the researchers referred to consumer resources, including the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group's SkinDeep Cosmetics Database\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Berkeley and Clinica de Salud researchers worked in tandem with a team of teen members of the CHAMACOS \u003ca href=\"http://cerch.org/research-programs/chamacos/chamacos-community-outreach/youth-community-council/\" target=\"_blank\">Youth Community Council\u003c/a>, a leadership training program for Salinas high school students. The student leaders helped design the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maritza Cardenas, a former council member, is an author of the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking back, in such a short period of time\" using products that did not have the four chemicals in them, Cardenas said, \"and to realize that made such a big difference to hormone-disrupting levels in my body, was really amazing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cardenas worked on the study between her junior and senior year of high school. Now she is a junior majoring in molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley. She said she remains conscious of what she's buying, although \"some of the products that might be more natural or organic might be a little more expensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University researchers designing a study in coordination with teenagers is unusual. But the hope was to engage the students in public health education. The youth council included many teens from immigrant families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a great way for us to cross cultural barriers and language barriers by first educating the teenagers and then having them go home and educate their families,” Cardenas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While research is thin and cannot show the health benefits of switching to low-chemical products, Harley said the natural levels of hormones in the human body act at very low level, \"at a parts per billion level.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any additional chemicals -- in this case, from personal care products -- \"can act on very low levels also,\" she said. \"So it seems like things we can do to reduce the levels of the hormone-disrupting chemicals ... can potentially help our health in the long term.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/enviroblog/2016/03/nationwide-poll-finds-overwhelming-support-stronger-cosmetics-regulation\" target=\"_blank\">recent poll\u003c/a> showed that 70 percent of likely voters believe the government should be responsible for making sure chemicals in personal care products are safe. Senators Dianne Feinstein, D-California, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, have \u003ca href=\"http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve/?File_id=445a9268-4964-4de0-89f9-4caf577099f2\" target=\"_blank\">introduced bipartisan legislation\u003c/a> to give the FDA more authority over regulating personal care products.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/156734/big-drop-in-chemical-levels-in-girls-who-switched-cosmetics","authors":["240"],"categories":["stateofhealth_12"],"tags":["stateofhealth_20","stateofhealth_2519"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_157361","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_23071":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_23071","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"23071","score":null,"sort":[1418864459000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"schools-are-at-the-front-line-of-asthma-fight","title":"Schools Are at the Front Line of Asthma Fight","publishDate":1418864459,"format":"aside","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/12/asthma.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-23076\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/12/asthma-640x404.jpg\" alt=\"Shameka Bibb gives her son Sarquan Holland Jr., age 5, his asthma inhaler at school before she leaves him for the day. Hollands asthma is so severe that he has been on Prednisone since he was three and is on the strongest dose of inhaler, not usually given to children. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"404\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shameka Bibb gives her son Sarquan Holland, Jr., age 5, his asthma inhaler at school before she leaves him for the day. Holland's asthma is so severe that he has been on prednisone since he was three and is on the strongest dose of inhaler, not usually given to children. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California’s network of 230 school-based health clinics are set to incubate a new education program meant to address the environmental factors that trigger asthma attacks. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $600,000 grant to the Oakland-based Public Health Institute’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.rampasthma.org/\">Regional Asthma Management & Prevention\u003c/a> (RAMP) program. RAMP is now set to design a training program for the state’s school-based clinic staff on how to prevent and manage environmental asthma triggers in school, at home and in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asthma affects 900,000 children in California and seven million children nationwide. The disease causes airways in the lungs to swell and narrow. This makes breathing difficult. Oakland’s network of school-based clinics have been on the forefront of providing asthma education and treatment to its school-aged children, but will now have an added resource to address the environmental risk factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Even a child with the best medications is going to continue to suffer from asthma if he or she is exposed to environmental asthma triggers in their school or home or community.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“There’s a stigma around having asthma and how you deal with it,” said Hana Shirriel-Dia, adolescent services coordinator at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lifelongmedical.org/Services/school-based-services.html\" target=\"_blank\">West Oakland Middle School Health Center\u003c/a>. She and her colleagues work with an Oakland Unified School District nurse and physical education teacher to identify kids at the school who have breathing problems. Clinic staff then provide medical treatment and counseling on asthma management, so kids can continue to play sports and run around with other students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always tell myself I can fight through my asthma no matter what, and that’s not an excuse to say I can’t play sports,” said 11-year-old Maurice Patton III. He’s been taking the asthma class offered at the health center, which helped him identify the environmental triggers at school, home and in his community. He’s also learned some techniques to slow down, take deep breaths and calm himself when he’s having an asthma attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirriel-Dia says about 25 percent of the students at West Oakland Middle School suffer from asthma and others have breathing problems. The clinic is focused on the student population, but doesn't turn way other children in the neighborhood who seek care there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Asthma is a disease that we see great disparities by race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status,” said Anne Kelsey Lamb, director of RAMP. “Here in Alameda county, African-Americans are hospitalized or go to emergency departments five times more often than whites [for asthma-related incidences].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new focus on identifying and managing environmental triggers for asthma is an effort to reduce these severe asthma attacks and \u003ca href=\"http://www.schoolhealthcenters.org/healthlearning/asthma/\" target=\"_blank\">expensive trips to the hospital\u003c/a>. “Even a child with the best medications is going to continue to suffer from asthma if he or she is exposed to environmental asthma triggers in their school or home or community,” Lamb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RAMP plans to compile a guide for schools to use when identifying triggers in their own buildings, such as poor ventilation, \u003ca href=\"http://www.rampasthma.org/2010/03/green-cleaning-in-schools-a-guide-for-advocates/\" target=\"_blank\">harmful cleaning products\u003c/a> or exposure to diesel buses that could be adversely affecting students. Staff will also be trained to educate parents about the factors at home that can cause asthma to flare, like mold and cigarette smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After developing a guide to environmental asthma triggers and developing a training curriculum, RAMP, in partnership with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.schoolhealthcenters.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California School-Based Health Alliance\u003c/a>, will train clinic staff around the state so they can help their own communities avoid or address environmental asthma triggers. With California as a training ground, the program will then expand to New York, Michigan, and Connecticut, states with high asthma prevalence and school-based clinics.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Federal EPA grants Oakland-based institute $600,000 grant to fight environmental asthma triggers.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1418862335,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":693},"headData":{"title":"Schools Are at the Front Line of Asthma Fight | KQED","description":"Federal EPA grants Oakland-based institute $600,000 grant to fight environmental asthma triggers.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Schools Are at the Front Line of Asthma Fight","datePublished":"2014-12-18T01:00:59.000Z","dateModified":"2014-12-18T00:25:35.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"23071 http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=23071","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/12/17/schools-are-at-the-front-line-of-asthma-fight/","disqusTitle":"Schools Are at the Front Line of Asthma Fight","path":"/stateofhealth/23071/schools-are-at-the-front-line-of-asthma-fight","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/12/asthma.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-23076\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/12/asthma-640x404.jpg\" alt=\"Shameka Bibb gives her son Sarquan Holland Jr., age 5, his asthma inhaler at school before she leaves him for the day. Hollands asthma is so severe that he has been on Prednisone since he was three and is on the strongest dose of inhaler, not usually given to children. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"404\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shameka Bibb gives her son Sarquan Holland, Jr., age 5, his asthma inhaler at school before she leaves him for the day. Holland's asthma is so severe that he has been on prednisone since he was three and is on the strongest dose of inhaler, not usually given to children. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California’s network of 230 school-based health clinics are set to incubate a new education program meant to address the environmental factors that trigger asthma attacks. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $600,000 grant to the Oakland-based Public Health Institute’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.rampasthma.org/\">Regional Asthma Management & Prevention\u003c/a> (RAMP) program. RAMP is now set to design a training program for the state’s school-based clinic staff on how to prevent and manage environmental asthma triggers in school, at home and in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asthma affects 900,000 children in California and seven million children nationwide. The disease causes airways in the lungs to swell and narrow. This makes breathing difficult. Oakland’s network of school-based clinics have been on the forefront of providing asthma education and treatment to its school-aged children, but will now have an added resource to address the environmental risk factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Even a child with the best medications is going to continue to suffer from asthma if he or she is exposed to environmental asthma triggers in their school or home or community.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“There’s a stigma around having asthma and how you deal with it,” said Hana Shirriel-Dia, adolescent services coordinator at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lifelongmedical.org/Services/school-based-services.html\" target=\"_blank\">West Oakland Middle School Health Center\u003c/a>. She and her colleagues work with an Oakland Unified School District nurse and physical education teacher to identify kids at the school who have breathing problems. Clinic staff then provide medical treatment and counseling on asthma management, so kids can continue to play sports and run around with other students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always tell myself I can fight through my asthma no matter what, and that’s not an excuse to say I can’t play sports,” said 11-year-old Maurice Patton III. He’s been taking the asthma class offered at the health center, which helped him identify the environmental triggers at school, home and in his community. He’s also learned some techniques to slow down, take deep breaths and calm himself when he’s having an asthma attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirriel-Dia says about 25 percent of the students at West Oakland Middle School suffer from asthma and others have breathing problems. The clinic is focused on the student population, but doesn't turn way other children in the neighborhood who seek care there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Asthma is a disease that we see great disparities by race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status,” said Anne Kelsey Lamb, director of RAMP. “Here in Alameda county, African-Americans are hospitalized or go to emergency departments five times more often than whites [for asthma-related incidences].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new focus on identifying and managing environmental triggers for asthma is an effort to reduce these severe asthma attacks and \u003ca href=\"http://www.schoolhealthcenters.org/healthlearning/asthma/\" target=\"_blank\">expensive trips to the hospital\u003c/a>. “Even a child with the best medications is going to continue to suffer from asthma if he or she is exposed to environmental asthma triggers in their school or home or community,” Lamb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RAMP plans to compile a guide for schools to use when identifying triggers in their own buildings, such as poor ventilation, \u003ca href=\"http://www.rampasthma.org/2010/03/green-cleaning-in-schools-a-guide-for-advocates/\" target=\"_blank\">harmful cleaning products\u003c/a> or exposure to diesel buses that could be adversely affecting students. Staff will also be trained to educate parents about the factors at home that can cause asthma to flare, like mold and cigarette smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After developing a guide to environmental asthma triggers and developing a training curriculum, RAMP, in partnership with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.schoolhealthcenters.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California School-Based Health Alliance\u003c/a>, will train clinic staff around the state so they can help their own communities avoid or address environmental asthma triggers. With California as a training ground, the program will then expand to New York, Michigan, and Connecticut, states with high asthma prevalence and school-based clinics.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/23071/schools-are-at-the-front-line-of-asthma-fight","authors":["234"],"categories":["stateofhealth_11"],"tags":["stateofhealth_23","stateofhealth_20"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_23076","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_14720":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_14720","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"14720","score":null,"sort":[1378286356000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"neighbors-skeptical-battery-recycler-to-test-soil-for-dangerous-metals-exide-arsenic-los-angeles","title":"Battery Recycler to Test Soil for Dangerous Metals; Neighbors Skeptical","publishDate":1378286356,"format":"aside","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14724\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/09/Exide3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-14724 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/09/Exide3-640x478.jpg\" alt=\"Regulators say arsenic leaking from the Exide Technologies plant in Vernon endangered as many as 110,000 people living nearby. (Photo/Chris Richards)\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Regulators say arsenic leaking from the Exide Technologies plant in Vernon endangered as many as 110,000 people living nearby. Results of tests for lead and other toxins should be available in December. (Photo/Chris Richard)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Chris Richard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State-ordered testing of soil for lead and other toxins around a battery recycling plant in Vernon, just east of downtown Los Angeles, is underway. The plant, Exide Technologies, already has been accused of endangering the lives of 110,000 people who live nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neighborhood residents and community leaders say they’re skeptical that the test results will force Exide’s factory to close before it can do any more harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s great that they’re testing, and I’d say that it’s long overdue,” said Monsignor John Moretta of Resurrection Catholic Church in Boyle Heights, a neighborhood about a mile from the plant. He says that members of his congregation have long been worried about emissions from the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But this is all pretty superficial. It doesn’t get to the real question, which is, at what point do you wait for them to go into more violations before you shut them down?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/LawsRegsPolicies/RCRA.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">regulation\u003c/a> ensures the safe treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous waste, and requires that factories such as battery recyclers satisfy rigorous environmental reviews before obtaining a permit. But Exide has never met that standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Long history of citations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plant has a long history of air pollution write-ups, including allegations that it allowed lead dust to contaminate the surrounding neighborhood, regulators say. Still, state officials allowed the factory, which melts tens of thousands of batteries a day, to operate on “interim status” for some 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the state Department of Toxic Substances Control took action and ordered Exide to suspend operations. Regulators said arsenic emissions from the plant endangered as many as 110,000 who live in Boyle Heights and other nearby neighborhoods. The South Coast Air Quality Management District estimated cancer risk from the airborne arsenic at up to 15 times state standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Toxic Substances Control also found that contaminants had seeped into the ground from corroded pipes at up to 63 times the levels allowed under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Exide appealed the suspension. In court filings, Exide said it has reduced its arsenic emissions by 70 percent since 2010. Company attorneys argued that regulators were bowing to public outrage and acting arbitrarily. In mid-June, Los Angeles County Judge Luis Lavin ordered the plant reopened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lavin said that keeping the factory closed wouldn’t improve neighborhood health conditions immediately and would cause irreparable harm to the company. He affirmed that ruling two weeks later, pending an administrative law hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hearing was to resume Tuesday, but DTSC requested a postponement because Exide agreed to address the leaking pipes and airborne emissions identified in the agency’s suspension order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are obligated to articulate, and have discussed with (Exide) ... what actions would have to occur at the facility in order to correct the unacceptable conditions,” agency spokesman Russ Edmondson wrote in an email Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If and when Exide demonstrates that it can satisfy these requirements, DTSC will have achieved its goal in ensuring that the facility operates safely and would consider lifting the suspension.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the faulty pipes are now out of service and Exide has installed a temporary drainage system. A permanent drainage system is in the planning stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighborhood resident Cristal Rivera said she has lost confidence that state regulators will protect her, her husband or their 8-month-old son, Julian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The things they want Exide to do are good, but they don’t seem to have much power,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Factory operated despite damaged system to filter toxic emissions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 7, just five days after Judge Lavin’s ruling to reopen the plant, Exide reported that heat had damaged air filtration devices in one of two “baghouses” that are supposed to scrub out toxic emissions. Even though its air filtration system was compromised, the factory continued to operate, South Coast Air Quality Management District spokesman Sam Atwood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Exide temporarily shut down portions of the factory that vented to the baghouses but resumed operations the next day, triggering a citation from the Air Quality Management District on July 9. After that, the company closed down operations until the filtration system was repaired, a district report shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district had ordered additional remediation measures and set a deadline of Sept. 1 for Exide to report what new steps it was taking to safeguard the public from its toxic emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an interview last week, Atwood said no such report had been received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think their response is going to be, ‘Our plan is what we’ve already done,’ ” Atwood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has installed an automatic door between a storage bin for dismantled batteries and blast furnaces where it melts them, he said. Formerly, the furnaces could freely vent gases into the air through the entrance to the storage bin. Now the automatic gate keeps that passageway closed part of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then the question becomes, ‘Where’s the proof that this has accomplished the risk reduction?’ ” Atwood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide spokeswoman Susan Jaramillo did not respond to repeated requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera, the young mother, said she can’t afford to wait. She said she and her husband have decided to sell their house and move to a safer area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be gases that stay in that room with the furnace,” she said. “When they open that gate, they’re going to come out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the neighboring community of Bell, City Councilman Nestor Enrique Valencia, a founder of the health activist group Our Salud, said he’s skeptical of government efforts. He admits that’s partly due to his experience of government in his own city, which was shaken by a political corruption scandal in 2010 and 2011. (Valencia was not implicated in the scandal and won his council seat in 2011.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After all that, I’m not going to sit there and listen to a bunch of bureaucrats. I’m just very leery, if not skeptical, of (state agencies’) work,” he said. “I know they’re trying, but I don’t see them being very successful in closing this plant down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia said a private lab has tested the blood-lead levels of some 15 people living in the area, and additional testing is scheduled. He has asked local school officials for permission to meet with parents on campus and urge them to have their children tested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Campbell, a spokesman for unionized plant workers, said federally mandated blood tests among employees did not find elevated lead levels. He said he supports additional soil testing and blood testing for the wider community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edmondson said dust testing is beginning within 500 feet of the Exide plant, progressing in 1,500-foot concentric circles. Samples are drawn from stormwater curb boxes and open drainage channels, the Los Angeles River channel, sidewalks, and the roofs and grounds of neighboring facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Test results will be available in early December, Edmondson said. If they show contamination, the department will conduct additional testing in a broader area, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, at the Resurrection Catholic School, which is affiliated with Moretta’s parish, principal Angelica Figueroa said faculty members have been encouraging children to participate in public meetings and other political processes that can influence regulators to increase their oversight of companies like Exide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school is about a mile and a half from Exide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These companies would not go to the Westside or Pasadena or any other more affluent area,” she said. “Why? Because people there will step up and voice their concerns. Well, I want our students to know that they have that same right.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"State-ordered testing of the soil for lead and other toxins around a battery recycling plant in Vernon is underway. Exide Technologies has already been accused of endangering the lives of 110,000 people who live nearby.\r\n\r\nBut neighborhood residents and community leaders say they’re skeptical that the test results will force Exide’s factory to close before it can do any more harm.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1378848976,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":41,"wordCount":1368},"headData":{"title":"Battery Recycler to Test Soil for Dangerous Metals; Neighbors Skeptical | KQED","description":"State-ordered testing of the soil for lead and other toxins around a battery recycling plant in Vernon is underway. Exide Technologies has already been accused of endangering the lives of 110,000 people who live nearby.\r\n\r\nBut neighborhood residents and community leaders say they’re skeptical that the test results will force Exide’s factory to close before it can do any more harm.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Battery Recycler to Test Soil for Dangerous Metals; Neighbors Skeptical","datePublished":"2013-09-04T09:19:16.000Z","dateModified":"2013-09-10T21:36:16.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"14720 http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=14720","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/09/04/neighbors-skeptical-battery-recycler-to-test-soil-for-dangerous-metals-exide-arsenic-los-angeles/","disqusTitle":"Battery Recycler to Test Soil for Dangerous Metals; Neighbors Skeptical","path":"/stateofhealth/14720/neighbors-skeptical-battery-recycler-to-test-soil-for-dangerous-metals-exide-arsenic-los-angeles","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14724\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/09/Exide3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-14724 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/09/Exide3-640x478.jpg\" alt=\"Regulators say arsenic leaking from the Exide Technologies plant in Vernon endangered as many as 110,000 people living nearby. (Photo/Chris Richards)\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Regulators say arsenic leaking from the Exide Technologies plant in Vernon endangered as many as 110,000 people living nearby. Results of tests for lead and other toxins should be available in December. (Photo/Chris Richard)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Chris Richard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State-ordered testing of soil for lead and other toxins around a battery recycling plant in Vernon, just east of downtown Los Angeles, is underway. The plant, Exide Technologies, already has been accused of endangering the lives of 110,000 people who live nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neighborhood residents and community leaders say they’re skeptical that the test results will force Exide’s factory to close before it can do any more harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s great that they’re testing, and I’d say that it’s long overdue,” said Monsignor John Moretta of Resurrection Catholic Church in Boyle Heights, a neighborhood about a mile from the plant. He says that members of his congregation have long been worried about emissions from the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But this is all pretty superficial. It doesn’t get to the real question, which is, at what point do you wait for them to go into more violations before you shut them down?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/LawsRegsPolicies/RCRA.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">regulation\u003c/a> ensures the safe treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous waste, and requires that factories such as battery recyclers satisfy rigorous environmental reviews before obtaining a permit. But Exide has never met that standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Long history of citations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plant has a long history of air pollution write-ups, including allegations that it allowed lead dust to contaminate the surrounding neighborhood, regulators say. Still, state officials allowed the factory, which melts tens of thousands of batteries a day, to operate on “interim status” for some 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the state Department of Toxic Substances Control took action and ordered Exide to suspend operations. Regulators said arsenic emissions from the plant endangered as many as 110,000 who live in Boyle Heights and other nearby neighborhoods. The South Coast Air Quality Management District estimated cancer risk from the airborne arsenic at up to 15 times state standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Toxic Substances Control also found that contaminants had seeped into the ground from corroded pipes at up to 63 times the levels allowed under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Exide appealed the suspension. In court filings, Exide said it has reduced its arsenic emissions by 70 percent since 2010. Company attorneys argued that regulators were bowing to public outrage and acting arbitrarily. In mid-June, Los Angeles County Judge Luis Lavin ordered the plant reopened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lavin said that keeping the factory closed wouldn’t improve neighborhood health conditions immediately and would cause irreparable harm to the company. He affirmed that ruling two weeks later, pending an administrative law hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hearing was to resume Tuesday, but DTSC requested a postponement because Exide agreed to address the leaking pipes and airborne emissions identified in the agency’s suspension order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are obligated to articulate, and have discussed with (Exide) ... what actions would have to occur at the facility in order to correct the unacceptable conditions,” agency spokesman Russ Edmondson wrote in an email Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If and when Exide demonstrates that it can satisfy these requirements, DTSC will have achieved its goal in ensuring that the facility operates safely and would consider lifting the suspension.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the faulty pipes are now out of service and Exide has installed a temporary drainage system. A permanent drainage system is in the planning stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighborhood resident Cristal Rivera said she has lost confidence that state regulators will protect her, her husband or their 8-month-old son, Julian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The things they want Exide to do are good, but they don’t seem to have much power,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Factory operated despite damaged system to filter toxic emissions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 7, just five days after Judge Lavin’s ruling to reopen the plant, Exide reported that heat had damaged air filtration devices in one of two “baghouses” that are supposed to scrub out toxic emissions. Even though its air filtration system was compromised, the factory continued to operate, South Coast Air Quality Management District spokesman Sam Atwood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Exide temporarily shut down portions of the factory that vented to the baghouses but resumed operations the next day, triggering a citation from the Air Quality Management District on July 9. After that, the company closed down operations until the filtration system was repaired, a district report shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district had ordered additional remediation measures and set a deadline of Sept. 1 for Exide to report what new steps it was taking to safeguard the public from its toxic emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an interview last week, Atwood said no such report had been received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think their response is going to be, ‘Our plan is what we’ve already done,’ ” Atwood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has installed an automatic door between a storage bin for dismantled batteries and blast furnaces where it melts them, he said. Formerly, the furnaces could freely vent gases into the air through the entrance to the storage bin. Now the automatic gate keeps that passageway closed part of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then the question becomes, ‘Where’s the proof that this has accomplished the risk reduction?’ ” Atwood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide spokeswoman Susan Jaramillo did not respond to repeated requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera, the young mother, said she can’t afford to wait. She said she and her husband have decided to sell their house and move to a safer area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be gases that stay in that room with the furnace,” she said. “When they open that gate, they’re going to come out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the neighboring community of Bell, City Councilman Nestor Enrique Valencia, a founder of the health activist group Our Salud, said he’s skeptical of government efforts. He admits that’s partly due to his experience of government in his own city, which was shaken by a political corruption scandal in 2010 and 2011. (Valencia was not implicated in the scandal and won his council seat in 2011.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After all that, I’m not going to sit there and listen to a bunch of bureaucrats. I’m just very leery, if not skeptical, of (state agencies’) work,” he said. “I know they’re trying, but I don’t see them being very successful in closing this plant down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia said a private lab has tested the blood-lead levels of some 15 people living in the area, and additional testing is scheduled. He has asked local school officials for permission to meet with parents on campus and urge them to have their children tested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Campbell, a spokesman for unionized plant workers, said federally mandated blood tests among employees did not find elevated lead levels. He said he supports additional soil testing and blood testing for the wider community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edmondson said dust testing is beginning within 500 feet of the Exide plant, progressing in 1,500-foot concentric circles. Samples are drawn from stormwater curb boxes and open drainage channels, the Los Angeles River channel, sidewalks, and the roofs and grounds of neighboring facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Test results will be available in early December, Edmondson said. If they show contamination, the department will conduct additional testing in a broader area, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, at the Resurrection Catholic School, which is affiliated with Moretta’s parish, principal Angelica Figueroa said faculty members have been encouraging children to participate in public meetings and other political processes that can influence regulators to increase their oversight of companies like Exide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school is about a mile and a half from Exide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These companies would not go to the Westside or Pasadena or any other more affluent area,” she said. “Why? Because people there will step up and voice their concerns. Well, I want our students to know that they have that same right.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/14720/neighbors-skeptical-battery-recycler-to-test-soil-for-dangerous-metals-exide-arsenic-los-angeles","authors":["8344"],"categories":["stateofhealth_11"],"tags":["stateofhealth_20","stateofhealth_461"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_14724","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_14476":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_14476","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"14476","score":null,"sort":[1377215818000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-hospitals-can-be-more-green","title":"How Hospitals Can Be More Green","publishDate":1377215818,"format":"aside","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-14481\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/08/78753430-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Ryder Diaz\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente wants to know what’s lurking in their hospitals' mattresses. Mattresses are often treated with brominated flame retardants. And these chemicals usually don’t stay put. They leak into the air or cling to specks of dust and enter our bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Flame retardants can be quite toxic. They accumulate in the environment and in our fat cells,” said Kathy Gerwig, vice president and environmental stewardship officer at Kaiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certain beds may contain vinyl or other plastics that when produced or destroyed can release toxins into the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Environmental Protection Agency is currently \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2013/03/28/118491/epa_asks_are_flame_retardants_safe?category=bay+area\">reviewing\u003c/a> the safety of these chemicals, which have been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/27/debate-takes-on-safety-of-flame-retardants/\">linked\u003c/a> to increased cancer risk and other health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerwig’s team is trying to figure out what’s in their stock. If they prove to be harmful, swapping out hospital beds is bound to be a big undertaking. “We have a lot of mattress,” she said. But if necessary, it's a task Gerwig would embrace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser hospitals are among more than 100 private and public hospitals in California that are moving toward more sustainable practices for their facilities, said Laura Wenger, executive director of Practice Greenhealth.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Non-profit organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://practicegreenhealth.org/\">Practice Greenhealth\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.noharm.org/\">HealthCare Without Harm\u003c/a> are hoping to turn hospitals “green.” The groups help hospitals reduce energy use, cut down on medical waste and make hospitals healthier places to visit or work in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have seen many hospitals that are using quite toxic cleaning supplies even in their public areas,” said Wenger. “Why are you exposing all your staff, the general population and visitors to these increased amounts of toxins when there’s really no need for it whatsoever?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these disinfectants can be carcinogenic and exposure may lead to nausea, neurological damage and respiratory problems when emitted into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a concern for patients but it’s an even bigger issue for hospital staff who spend their working lives in these buildings. \u003ca href=\"http://oem.bmj.com/content/69/1/35.short\" target=\"_blank\">Research\u003c/a> has shown that health care workers who are routinely exposed to chemicals and cleaners like bleach, toilet cleaners, detergents and ammonia had greater odds of developing work-related asthma symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Practice Greenhealth encourages the hospitals it works with to use more sustainable products when safe to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's not just cleaning supplies and potent disinfectants that are causing concern. Harmful chemicals and toxins are turning up in places you might not expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wenger says “chemicals of concern\" have been found in many areas throughout hospitals, \"from inside of medical tubes and various medical devices,\" she says \"to the backing in your carpeting and flooring that have certain emissions\" and even formaldehyde in wall coverings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2001, research suggested that DEHP, a chemical used to make plastics and vinyl more flexible, had a range of negative health effects in laboratory animals, including damage to developing reproductive organs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DEHP has been common in hospital equipment like medical tubing, IV bags, and catheters, including equipment used on very sick infants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to help [patients] by giving them lifesaving drugs -- but through a device that might have negative outcomes,” said Krisanne Hanson, the director of sustainability at Stanford University Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford and other hospitals across the state have eliminated DEPH from intensive care units for infants. Today, only a few products containing DEPH remain in Stanford’s hospitals, says Hanson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Stanford and UC San Francisco have also swapped out the harmful neurotoxin mercury from a variety of medical devices, including thermometers and thermostats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals making a move toward sustainability often ask suppliers to list which toxins are hiding in their products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They even sweat the small stuff, items as small as identification bands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, Kaiser found out their regular supplier of ID bands made them with PVC. PVC emits cancer-causing chemicals when manufactured and incinerated. Today, Kaiser’s yearly allotment of about 4.4 million ID bands are made of a more sustainable tyvek material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There wasn’t a lot of deep thinking about it. It was just, there’s a safer alternative available and it’s affordable, so let’s go with that,” said Gerwig.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But sometimes there’s no substitute on the shelf that meets hospital standards. In those cases, Kaiser has asked companies to invent one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerwig says that Kaiser sent \"a very loud and clear message to suppliers\" that it wanted safer alternatives \"and the first people who come to us with a safer product that meets our quality and affordability standards, we’re going to go with that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A message like that from Kaiser, which buys mountains of supplies for its 37 hospitals, can send manufactures running to the design room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s a win for other hospitals which now have access to new, sustainable products at affordable prices, said Gerwig.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Kaiser Permanente wants to know what’s lurking in their hospitals' mattresses. Mattresses are often treated with brominated flame retardants. And these chemicals usually don’t stay put. They leak into the air or cling to specks of dust and enter our bodies.\r\n\r\n“Flame retardants can be quite toxic. They accumulate in the environment and in our fat cells,” said Kathy Gerwig, vice president and environmental stewardship officer at Kaiser.\r\n\r\nCertain beds may contain vinyl or other plastics that when produced or destroyed can release toxins into the environment.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1377436871,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":837},"headData":{"title":"How Hospitals Can Be More Green | KQED","description":"Kaiser Permanente wants to know what’s lurking in their hospitals' mattresses. Mattresses are often treated with brominated flame retardants. And these chemicals usually don’t stay put. They leak into the air or cling to specks of dust and enter our bodies.\r\n\r\n“Flame retardants can be quite toxic. They accumulate in the environment and in our fat cells,” said Kathy Gerwig, vice president and environmental stewardship officer at Kaiser.\r\n\r\nCertain beds may contain vinyl or other plastics that when produced or destroyed can release toxins into the environment.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"How Hospitals Can Be More Green","datePublished":"2013-08-22T23:56:58.000Z","dateModified":"2013-08-25T13:21:11.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"14476 http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=14476","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/08/22/how-hospitals-can-be-more-green/","disqusTitle":"How Hospitals Can Be More Green","path":"/stateofhealth/14476/how-hospitals-can-be-more-green","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-14481\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/08/78753430-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Ryder Diaz\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente wants to know what’s lurking in their hospitals' mattresses. Mattresses are often treated with brominated flame retardants. And these chemicals usually don’t stay put. They leak into the air or cling to specks of dust and enter our bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Flame retardants can be quite toxic. They accumulate in the environment and in our fat cells,” said Kathy Gerwig, vice president and environmental stewardship officer at Kaiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certain beds may contain vinyl or other plastics that when produced or destroyed can release toxins into the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Environmental Protection Agency is currently \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2013/03/28/118491/epa_asks_are_flame_retardants_safe?category=bay+area\">reviewing\u003c/a> the safety of these chemicals, which have been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/27/debate-takes-on-safety-of-flame-retardants/\">linked\u003c/a> to increased cancer risk and other health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerwig’s team is trying to figure out what’s in their stock. If they prove to be harmful, swapping out hospital beds is bound to be a big undertaking. “We have a lot of mattress,” she said. But if necessary, it's a task Gerwig would embrace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser hospitals are among more than 100 private and public hospitals in California that are moving toward more sustainable practices for their facilities, said Laura Wenger, executive director of Practice Greenhealth.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Non-profit organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://practicegreenhealth.org/\">Practice Greenhealth\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.noharm.org/\">HealthCare Without Harm\u003c/a> are hoping to turn hospitals “green.” The groups help hospitals reduce energy use, cut down on medical waste and make hospitals healthier places to visit or work in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have seen many hospitals that are using quite toxic cleaning supplies even in their public areas,” said Wenger. “Why are you exposing all your staff, the general population and visitors to these increased amounts of toxins when there’s really no need for it whatsoever?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these disinfectants can be carcinogenic and exposure may lead to nausea, neurological damage and respiratory problems when emitted into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a concern for patients but it’s an even bigger issue for hospital staff who spend their working lives in these buildings. \u003ca href=\"http://oem.bmj.com/content/69/1/35.short\" target=\"_blank\">Research\u003c/a> has shown that health care workers who are routinely exposed to chemicals and cleaners like bleach, toilet cleaners, detergents and ammonia had greater odds of developing work-related asthma symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Practice Greenhealth encourages the hospitals it works with to use more sustainable products when safe to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's not just cleaning supplies and potent disinfectants that are causing concern. Harmful chemicals and toxins are turning up in places you might not expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wenger says “chemicals of concern\" have been found in many areas throughout hospitals, \"from inside of medical tubes and various medical devices,\" she says \"to the backing in your carpeting and flooring that have certain emissions\" and even formaldehyde in wall coverings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2001, research suggested that DEHP, a chemical used to make plastics and vinyl more flexible, had a range of negative health effects in laboratory animals, including damage to developing reproductive organs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DEHP has been common in hospital equipment like medical tubing, IV bags, and catheters, including equipment used on very sick infants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to help [patients] by giving them lifesaving drugs -- but through a device that might have negative outcomes,” said Krisanne Hanson, the director of sustainability at Stanford University Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford and other hospitals across the state have eliminated DEPH from intensive care units for infants. Today, only a few products containing DEPH remain in Stanford’s hospitals, says Hanson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Stanford and UC San Francisco have also swapped out the harmful neurotoxin mercury from a variety of medical devices, including thermometers and thermostats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals making a move toward sustainability often ask suppliers to list which toxins are hiding in their products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They even sweat the small stuff, items as small as identification bands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, Kaiser found out their regular supplier of ID bands made them with PVC. PVC emits cancer-causing chemicals when manufactured and incinerated. Today, Kaiser’s yearly allotment of about 4.4 million ID bands are made of a more sustainable tyvek material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There wasn’t a lot of deep thinking about it. It was just, there’s a safer alternative available and it’s affordable, so let’s go with that,” said Gerwig.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But sometimes there’s no substitute on the shelf that meets hospital standards. In those cases, Kaiser has asked companies to invent one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerwig says that Kaiser sent \"a very loud and clear message to suppliers\" that it wanted safer alternatives \"and the first people who come to us with a safer product that meets our quality and affordability standards, we’re going to go with that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A message like that from Kaiser, which buys mountains of supplies for its 37 hospitals, can send manufactures running to the design room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s a win for other hospitals which now have access to new, sustainable products at affordable prices, said Gerwig.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/14476/how-hospitals-can-be-more-green","authors":["240"],"categories":["stateofhealth_166","stateofhealth_12"],"tags":["stateofhealth_20","stateofhealth_73"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_14481","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_13966":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_13966","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"13966","score":null,"sort":[1375290720000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"wifes-illness-spurs-mexican-immigrant-to-environmental-activism","title":"Wife's Illness Spurs Mexican Immigrant to Environmental Activism","publishDate":1375290720,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Vital Signs | State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":2363,"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-13969\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/07/RS5950_P1030479-scr-620x413.jpg\" alt=\"Eduardo Guevara became involved in environmental activism after his wife was hospitalized twice for asthma. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eduardo Guevara became involved in environmental activism after his wife was hospitalized twice for asthma. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's Note: The unincorporated community of Mecca in Riverside County has a host of environmental concerns, from well water with naturally-occurring arsenic to toxic dump sites. When people talk about environmental justice here, Eduardo Guevara is always cited as a leader in the community. But Guevara says that five years ago, after moving here from Mexicali, Mexico, he wasn’t involved in any kind of activism. After his wife was hospitalized twice for asthma, Guevarra learned that their environment might be contributing to his wife’s health problems. As part of our series “\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/specialcoverage/whatsyourstory/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">What’s Your Story?\u003c/a>” we hear from Guevara about how he, his wife and his son started attending community meetings to get some answers.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since no one had the [the answers as to why my wife got sick], I started to try to get them for, not only for me, but for her, and for my son.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">I started being the guy that sometimes asked the questions nobody wanted to ask. They saw me and they were like, \"Oh my god, this guy again.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And then we went to a meeting, where the Air Quality Management District was at the panel, and out of nowhere the kid is like, \"You know what? I saw a kid reading a letter. I’m going to write one, and then I’m going to read it.\" You know, my son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he took the letter, went to the microphone, read it aloud. He said, \"Hi, I’m Eduardo Guevara. I think that the government has to do something about the toxic things that they throw in Mecca. I am worried for my mom because she had asthma and because of those smells she could get asthma again. Thank you.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then he finishes, and I say, if the kid is worried, I need to do something. It’s not only about me; now it’s him trying to do something because he’s worried for his mom. We need to go on. So we did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We started working with people with the same worries we had. I started learning the names of the people in the agencies. I started being the guy that sometimes asked the questions nobody wanted to ask. They saw me and they were like, \"Oh my god, this guy again.” It’s a lonely road sometimes, but it had to be done. Someone had to do it. If no one’s going to do it, the worst that could happen is that it will stay the same way as we are, right? So I have nothing to lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a really intensive capacity-building time, because it was like learning a new language: cumulative impact, environmental justice, California hazardous waste. There’s a lot of terminology that I’d never in my life heard before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the area we have at least two dump sites. We have areas with arsenic in the water. We have sewage problems in mobile parks. Any place you look to, we have a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that the greatest success I've had is to get him, my son -- actually -- I didn’t get him involved. He got involved because he saw me, and he cared for his mom. So I think if I’m not here, for whatever reason, I will still be here because of him. So I think that will be the biggest success I’ve had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lisa Morehouse was the reporter for this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The unincorporated community of Mecca in Riverside County struggles with a host of environmental problems, from arsenic in the well water to toxic dump sites. For years after moving to Mecca from Mexicali, Mexico, Eduardo Guevara wasn't particularly worked up about it. But after his wife was hospitalized twice for asthma, Guevara was determined to get some answers. - See more at: http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201307310850/b#sthash.iTMEcYEF.dpuf","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1392249789,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":622},"headData":{"title":"Wife's Illness Spurs Mexican Immigrant to Environmental Activism | KQED","description":"The unincorporated community of Mecca in Riverside County struggles with a host of environmental problems, from arsenic in the well water to toxic dump sites. For years after moving to Mecca from Mexicali, Mexico, Eduardo Guevara wasn't particularly worked up about it. But after his wife was hospitalized twice for asthma, Guevara was determined to get some answers. - See more at: http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201307310850/b#sthash.iTMEcYEF.dpuf","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Wife's Illness Spurs Mexican Immigrant to Environmental Activism","datePublished":"2013-07-31T17:12:00.000Z","dateModified":"2014-02-13T00:03:09.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"13966 http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=13966","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/07/31/wifes-illness-spurs-mexican-immigrant-to-environmental-activism/","disqusTitle":"Wife's Illness Spurs Mexican Immigrant to Environmental Activism","path":"/stateofhealth/13966/wifes-illness-spurs-mexican-immigrant-to-environmental-activism","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-13969\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/07/RS5950_P1030479-scr-620x413.jpg\" alt=\"Eduardo Guevara became involved in environmental activism after his wife was hospitalized twice for asthma. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eduardo Guevara became involved in environmental activism after his wife was hospitalized twice for asthma. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's Note: The unincorporated community of Mecca in Riverside County has a host of environmental concerns, from well water with naturally-occurring arsenic to toxic dump sites. When people talk about environmental justice here, Eduardo Guevara is always cited as a leader in the community. But Guevara says that five years ago, after moving here from Mexicali, Mexico, he wasn’t involved in any kind of activism. After his wife was hospitalized twice for asthma, Guevarra learned that their environment might be contributing to his wife’s health problems. As part of our series “\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/specialcoverage/whatsyourstory/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">What’s Your Story?\u003c/a>” we hear from Guevara about how he, his wife and his son started attending community meetings to get some answers.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since no one had the [the answers as to why my wife got sick], I started to try to get them for, not only for me, but for her, and for my son.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">I started being the guy that sometimes asked the questions nobody wanted to ask. They saw me and they were like, \"Oh my god, this guy again.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And then we went to a meeting, where the Air Quality Management District was at the panel, and out of nowhere the kid is like, \"You know what? I saw a kid reading a letter. I’m going to write one, and then I’m going to read it.\" You know, my son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he took the letter, went to the microphone, read it aloud. He said, \"Hi, I’m Eduardo Guevara. I think that the government has to do something about the toxic things that they throw in Mecca. I am worried for my mom because she had asthma and because of those smells she could get asthma again. Thank you.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then he finishes, and I say, if the kid is worried, I need to do something. It’s not only about me; now it’s him trying to do something because he’s worried for his mom. We need to go on. So we did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We started working with people with the same worries we had. I started learning the names of the people in the agencies. I started being the guy that sometimes asked the questions nobody wanted to ask. They saw me and they were like, \"Oh my god, this guy again.” It’s a lonely road sometimes, but it had to be done. Someone had to do it. If no one’s going to do it, the worst that could happen is that it will stay the same way as we are, right? So I have nothing to lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a really intensive capacity-building time, because it was like learning a new language: cumulative impact, environmental justice, California hazardous waste. There’s a lot of terminology that I’d never in my life heard before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the area we have at least two dump sites. We have areas with arsenic in the water. We have sewage problems in mobile parks. Any place you look to, we have a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that the greatest success I've had is to get him, my son -- actually -- I didn’t get him involved. He got involved because he saw me, and he cared for his mom. So I think if I’m not here, for whatever reason, I will still be here because of him. So I think that will be the biggest success I’ve had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lisa Morehouse was the reporter for this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/13966/wifes-illness-spurs-mexican-immigrant-to-environmental-activism","authors":["240"],"series":["stateofhealth_2363"],"categories":["stateofhealth_11"],"tags":["stateofhealth_20","stateofhealth_2373"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_13969","label":"stateofhealth_2363"},"stateofhealth_8045":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_8045","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"8045","score":null,"sort":[1344547036000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"richmond-refinery-fire-8-health-questions-answered","title":"Richmond Refinery Fire: 8 Health Questions Answered","publishDate":1344547036,"format":"aside","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_8050\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/08/RichmondRefineryFire_DanielParks_Flickr_08062012.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-8050\" title=\"Monday night's Chevron Refinery fire as seen from the Berkeley Hills. (Daniel Parks: Flickr)\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/08/RichmondRefineryFire_DanielParks_Flickr_08062012-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"Monday night's Chevron Refinery fire as seen from the Berkeley Hills. (Daniel Parks: Flickr)\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monday night's Chevron Refinery fire as seen from the Berkeley Hills. (Daniel Parks: Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa Health Services has posted a succinct \"\u003ca title=\"http://cchealth.org/special/pdf/FAQ-Chevron-Fire.pdf\" href=\"http://cchealth.org/special/pdf/FAQ-Chevron-Fire.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Frequently Asked Questions Related to the Chevron Fire on August 6, 2012\u003c/a>.\" [PDF] It's good information -- cleaning fruits, vegetables, avoiding groundwater, health impact, etc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I republish it here, in its entirety:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>1. What are the health impacts from the refinery fire?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke can cause throat and eye irritation, though it generally is not serious\u003cbr>\nif the exposure is limited. These symptoms should resolve on their own after a few days for most people. Exposure to smoke can be more serious for people with pre-existing lung disease, such as asthma, and they may experience wheezing or have trouble breathing. As of August 8, more than 1,700 people have gone to the emergency room with nose, throat or eye irritation or respiratory issues, although none have been hospitalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. What chemicals were released into the air and how dangerous are they?\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A variety of chemicals were released during the Chevron Richmond refinery fire. (See list of chemicals from each sample location.) Smoke particulates, which are what makes smoke black, were the major concern during this fire. Smoke particulates can irritate the throat, lungs and eyes particularly in those with pre-existing lung disease, such as asthma. Benzene, a chemical that can cause cancer, and other toxic chemicals can also be present in smoke. Test results from air samples that were taken by Contra Costa Hazardous Materials Response Team and staff from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) were analyzed by BAAQMD and show the level of benzene and other toxic chemicals was below harmful levels during the fire and poses no risk of cancer. We do not have good measurements of the smoke particulates that impacted the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. Is it safe to eat fruits and vegetables from my garden?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, it’s safe. It’s always a good idea to wash fruits and vegetables before eating. If you live in an area that was affected by the refinery fire, you can wash fruits and vegetables from your garden with soap and a mild detergent (like liquid dish soap). Washing your fruits and vegetables will remove any particulates that might have been on the surface from smoke. You also can peel off the outer layer of lettuce or peel your fruit if you are concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. Is our water safe for drinking?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tap water in Richmond is one of the best waters in the country and it is safe for you to drink and to give to your pets. The ground water from local wells in Richmond should not be used for drinking by you or your pets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. What should I do if there is soot on my car, patio furniture or outdoor play structures?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there is residue on your car, patio furniture or outdoor play structure wash it with a mild detergent and water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6. Why was shelter-in-place lifted if the air sample results aren't in yet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelter-in-place was lifted because the fire at Chevron was under control and our hazardous materials monitors confirmed there was no ongoing exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7. What should I do if I am having trouble breathing or have burning eyes and a sore throat?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who are experiencing trouble breathing should seek medical attention. If you have burning eyes and a sore throat contact your health care provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>8. Is there any assistance in paying for my medical expenses related to this incident?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contact Chevron for information regarding payment of medical expenses or claims. You can reach them at 510-242-2000 for general information or at 1-866-260-7881 for claim information.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Contra Costa Health Services has posted a succinct \"Frequently Asked Questions Related to the Chevron Fire on August 6, 2012.\" [PDF] It's good information -- cleaning fruits, vegetables, avoiding groundwater, health impact, etc.\r\n\r\nI republish it here, in its entirety:\r\n\r\n1. What are the health impacts from the refinery fire?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1344547036,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":628},"headData":{"title":"Richmond Refinery Fire: 8 Health Questions Answered | KQED","description":"Contra Costa Health Services has posted a succinct "Frequently Asked Questions Related to the Chevron Fire on August 6, 2012." It's good information -- cleaning fruits, vegetables, avoiding groundwater, health impact, etc.\r\n\r\nI republish it here, in its entirety:\r\n\r\n1. 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(Daniel Parks: Flickr)\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/08/RichmondRefineryFire_DanielParks_Flickr_08062012-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"Monday night's Chevron Refinery fire as seen from the Berkeley Hills. (Daniel Parks: Flickr)\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monday night's Chevron Refinery fire as seen from the Berkeley Hills. (Daniel Parks: Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa Health Services has posted a succinct \"\u003ca title=\"http://cchealth.org/special/pdf/FAQ-Chevron-Fire.pdf\" href=\"http://cchealth.org/special/pdf/FAQ-Chevron-Fire.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Frequently Asked Questions Related to the Chevron Fire on August 6, 2012\u003c/a>.\" [PDF] It's good information -- cleaning fruits, vegetables, avoiding groundwater, health impact, etc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I republish it here, in its entirety:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>1. What are the health impacts from the refinery fire?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke can cause throat and eye irritation, though it generally is not serious\u003cbr>\nif the exposure is limited. These symptoms should resolve on their own after a few days for most people. Exposure to smoke can be more serious for people with pre-existing lung disease, such as asthma, and they may experience wheezing or have trouble breathing. As of August 8, more than 1,700 people have gone to the emergency room with nose, throat or eye irritation or respiratory issues, although none have been hospitalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. What chemicals were released into the air and how dangerous are they?\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A variety of chemicals were released during the Chevron Richmond refinery fire. (See list of chemicals from each sample location.) Smoke particulates, which are what makes smoke black, were the major concern during this fire. Smoke particulates can irritate the throat, lungs and eyes particularly in those with pre-existing lung disease, such as asthma. Benzene, a chemical that can cause cancer, and other toxic chemicals can also be present in smoke. Test results from air samples that were taken by Contra Costa Hazardous Materials Response Team and staff from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) were analyzed by BAAQMD and show the level of benzene and other toxic chemicals was below harmful levels during the fire and poses no risk of cancer. We do not have good measurements of the smoke particulates that impacted the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. Is it safe to eat fruits and vegetables from my garden?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, it’s safe. It’s always a good idea to wash fruits and vegetables before eating. If you live in an area that was affected by the refinery fire, you can wash fruits and vegetables from your garden with soap and a mild detergent (like liquid dish soap). Washing your fruits and vegetables will remove any particulates that might have been on the surface from smoke. You also can peel off the outer layer of lettuce or peel your fruit if you are concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. Is our water safe for drinking?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tap water in Richmond is one of the best waters in the country and it is safe for you to drink and to give to your pets. The ground water from local wells in Richmond should not be used for drinking by you or your pets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. What should I do if there is soot on my car, patio furniture or outdoor play structures?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there is residue on your car, patio furniture or outdoor play structure wash it with a mild detergent and water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6. Why was shelter-in-place lifted if the air sample results aren't in yet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelter-in-place was lifted because the fire at Chevron was under control and our hazardous materials monitors confirmed there was no ongoing exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7. What should I do if I am having trouble breathing or have burning eyes and a sore throat?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who are experiencing trouble breathing should seek medical attention. If you have burning eyes and a sore throat contact your health care provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>8. Is there any assistance in paying for my medical expenses related to this incident?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contact Chevron for information regarding payment of medical expenses or claims. 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