Chlorine: Safe Chemical or Toxic Threat?
ADVOCATES say chlorine is as much a part of society as the power that lights our homes. Opponents say it is a toxic threat we had better learn to live without.
Experts have yet to weigh in with definitive opinions, so the debate rages over the chemical that makes clothes whiter, water cleaner, and, perhaps, lives more risky.
The International Joint Commission recommended in 1992 that chlorine gradually be phased out of industrial use in the Great Lakes region. The group, a six-member American-Canadian panel studying environmental issues in the region, is expected to reiterate that position in a report due out early next year.
"It's used in so many aspects …
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Article title: Chlorine: Safe Chemical or Toxic Threat?.
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Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor.
Publication date: December 15, 1993.
Page number: 15.
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