Consumer Report finds chemical levels that are โnot OKโ in wide variety of packaged foods
Take a trip through the grocery store or stop at a fast-food restaurant. From packaged produce to meat, canned foods to fast food, you name it, it probably contains some form of a chemical used to make plastic.
Leak at sulfuric acid plant in Baytown prompts air quality tests at nearby facilities
BAYTOWN, Texas โ A leak Monday at a sulfuric acid plant in Baytown prompted other nearby facilities to conduct air monitoring, which officials said has come back normal. โNo one was injured, nor did any H2S travel off site.โBaytown officials said that some facilities in the area began monitoring air quality as a precaution because of the leak. Jermy Eikenberry, a spokesman for the ExxonMobil facility in Baytown said that the plant was among those facilities and that all results showed normal air quality levels. Officials in Baytown echoed Eikenberryโs statement, saying that so far all air quality testing is satisfactory. According to the company website, EcoServices provides sulfuric acid to oil refineries.
This is what you should know about propylene
Friday morningโs explosion at a Houston machining and manufacturing company is burning propylene into the air. Authorities had initially stated that the chemical was polypropylene but later corrected themselves and said propylene is the chemical that was burning following the explosion. Propylene can be used as an alternative to propane for heating and cutting โdue to its superior combustion performance,โ according to Linde-gas.com. Chemical and plastic industries also rely on propylene as gas. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, propylene can also be used to manufacture a variety of resins, fibers and elastomers - synthetic polymers that have elastic properties.