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From: Ralph Stuart <rstuart**At_Symbol_Here**UVM.EDU>
Subject: Re: Chemical Safety headlines summary, first 6 months
Date: Jul 26, 2010 12:55 UTC
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> > I think maybe our Journalism school could use it too - some of the details have been sketchy & perhaps a bit inaccurate! That's one of the things I've learned from this exercise - how unclear the journalistic understanding of chemical safety is, and how little follow up there is on any of these stories and the interesting questions they raise. I think that this is an important challenge for chemists and chemical safety professionals to be aware of when dealing with the members of the public and their understandable confusion around these concerns. - Ralph Ralph Stuart, CIH Environmental Safety Manager University of Vermont Environmental Safety Facility 667 Spear St. Burlington, VT 05405 rstuart**At_Symbol_Here**uvm.edu