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Re: California bans *perchloroethylene*—dry-cleaning businesses severely hurt |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jan 27 03:31:14 2007, in response to Re: Olog in Wonderland, wasCalifornia bans *perchloroethylene*—dry-cleaning businesses severely hurt, posted by RonInBayside on Fri Jan 26 10:46:35 2007. You are only looking at the short-term effects on inhalation. You did not consider the long term effects, especially for workers, on the liverThat is not a sufficient reason to ban all perchloroethylene use—if such concerns are so strong (they are not), then use of PPE can be mandated by the state. The way California has acted here, you'd think they had discovered that perchloroethylene was highly poisonous. Note how California, by comparison has not banned all gasoline usage nor tried to impose prohibition on alcohol and tobacco (imagine that), or for that matter forced a switchover to water-based paint and water-based nail polish, or banned hot sauce . . . (imagine that as well). I can think of several other absurdities to fit a comparison with what California just did in relation to "perc". What do you do for a living? Have you ever worked on or around chemicals? Yes; I have worked in and around organic solvents (both aliphatic and aromatic, halogenated and non) for several years. Same goes for the various resins that get dissolved in them. I'm well up on drum grounding, proper ventilation, proper PPE utilization, the whole nine yards. Worrying about perchloroethylene is like worrying about denatured alcohol. |
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