Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 08:24:19 -0500
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Subject: Re: Paraformaldehyde - carcinogen or not?
Date: December 7, 2009
4:11:51 AM EST
Subject: RE: [DCHAS-L] 2 RE: [DCHAS-L]
Paraformaldehyde - carcinogen or
not?
Dear
Monona,
Protection is fine but
substitution of very dangerous chemicals is better! I cannot understand
e.g. why n-hexane is still one of the most used solvents in standardized
analytical methods for lipophilic chemicals, when we know the danger of
peripheral neuropathy. It is easy to substitute. It is the only alkane
with that particular effect.
And that is only one example;
there are many others, including with carcinogens. Why are chemists so
conservative, careless or ignorant??? Years ago I was member of a CEN WG
supposed to solve the problem of substituting dangerous reagents in
analytical standard methods - but it showed up
impossible!
Yours
truly,
Allan Astrup Jensen
Technical Vice President
Secretariat for Quality
Management and Metrology
FORCE Technology,
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