Here's the situation
You work for ChipsARus as a production specialist, but you have an additional duty on the Health and Safety Committee. That committee gets free doughnuts at their meetings. The company "health and safety" supervisor gives a short report, the committee asks questions, the "safety guy" answers them, you finish the doughnuts, and the meeting is over for another month. You are curious, though, about all the chemicals your company handles, and that prompted you to take a web-based course in toxicology, which you pass with flying colors, and brag about a little.
Sunday there was a large spread in the newspaper about ChipsARus. The science teacher in the local high school, whose spouse was recently fired by ChipsARus, called the newspaper and tipped them off that ChipsARus had reported they had released tons of three chemicals into the environment. The paper checks this on the TRI and it's true. The spread in the paper demands to know what is being done about this and are the town's citizens in danger, or the many local citizens who work in the plant?
The ChipsARus big boss calls their "Public Affairs" office and directs them to hold a public meeting and discuss all this with the public. Somehow the boss found out you were the local expert on toxicology. She asks you to prepare a "fact sheet" for the three chemicals that you will give to the Public Affairs person, who will use it for information at the public meeting.
So, for each of your three chemicals, prepare a set of facts, write a fact sheet. It should be a long paragraph or perhaps two or three short ones. Use the MSDS sheet for the chemical for information. Also do some web-based searching. Answer some questions such as: Is it dangerous? What is LD50 (Remember the people who read this will not know what that means, so you have to explain it.)? What is its likely route of entry? Is it absorbed? What organs does it attack. What diseases or problems does it cause? Have other plants or communities had problems with it (based on web searching). Is it a "hot chemical," one with instant negative recognition by people? Is it a "natural product?" Any other information that the public might find important or interesting. So your Final report will be about a page and half long, more or less. At the bottom of the report list the websites where you got information that you used in the report. Report is due Monday, 1 October.
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