Environmental Chemicals
Ammonium Chloride
Uses include a feed supplement for cattle, in hair shampoo, in textile printing, in the glue that bonds plywood, as an ingredient in nutritive media for yeast, in cleaning products, and as cough medicine. It is the active ingredient in many antiperspirants, usually used in aerosol antiperspirants.
Benzene
Is a colorless and flammable liquid with a sweet smell and a relatively high melting point. It is carcinogenic and its use as additive in gasoline is now limited, but it is an important industrial solvent and precursor in the production of drugs, plastics, synthetic rubber, and dyes. May cause drunken behavior, light headaches, disorientation, fatigue and loss of appetite.
Chlorine
Drinking water, bleach, and disinfectants contain chlorine. It induces pain and inflammation of mouth, throat, and stomach. It can also cause confusion, delirium, respiratory tract irritation, pulmonary edema, skin eruptions, and vomiting. Exposure to chlorine has been linked to an increase in blood pressure, diabetes, anemia’s, heart disease, gastrointestinal and urinary tract cancer and asthma.
Deltamethrin
Deltamethrin products are among some of the most popular and widely used insecticides in the world; helpful in eliminating and preventing a wide variety of household pests, especially spiders, fleas, ticks, carpenter ants, cockroaches and bedbugs. Deltamethrin, however, should always be treated with caution. When care is not taken, deltamethrin poisoning can occur.
Fluoride
Is commonly found in toothpaste and water. Clinical studies have shown that fluoride contributes to osteoporosis and long-term exposure produces osteosclerosis.
Formaldehyde
Is found in household detergents and cleaners, and is also used in photographic chemicals, paint and rubber production, textile finishes and conditioners, pesticides and vermicides, diesel exhaust, toilet, burning charcoal and cigarette smoke. It may produce such symptoms as irritability, disorientation and depression.
Glyphosate
Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum herbicide useful on essentially all annual and perennial plants including grasses, sedges, broad-leaved weeds and woody plants. Trade names for products containing glyphosate include Roundup, Rodeo and Pondmaster. It may be used in formulations with other herbicides. Glyphosate is rate least dangerous in comparison to other herbicides and pesticides.
Orris Root
Once important in western herbal medicine, it is now used mainly as a fixative and base note in perfumery, as well as an ingredient in many brands of gin. This is also the substance left out of products that are labeled hypo-allergenic.
Phenol
Phenol is used primarily in the production of phenolic resins and in the manufacture of nylon and other synthetic fibers. It is also used in slimicides (chemicals that kill bacteria and fungi in slimes), as a disinfectant and antiseptic and in medicinal preparations such as mouthwash and sore throat lozenges. Short-term exposure to phenol in the air can cause respiratory irritation, headaches and burning eyes. People who had skin exposure to high amounts of phenol had skin burns, liver damage, dark urine and irregular heart beat.
Toluene
Toluene is a common solvent, able to dissolve: paints, paint thinners, many chemical reactants, rubber, printing ink, adhesives (glues), lacquers, leather tanners and disinfectants. Inhalation of toluene fumes can be intoxicating, but in larger doses nausea-inducing.
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