Phil 305 Bayer Case Study The case study that I previously wrote was about pharmaceutical company Bayer headed in Baytown, Texas. The case was particularly talking about company’s negligence towards safety issues that were constantly showing up. There were several dangerous events occurring in their factory where sizable number of people was injured or even died. The other issue was improper production of TDI plastic and especially it’s recycling what caused environmental issues like wastewater and air pollution. In the other hand Bayer Company in proud of their ethos, and they are presenting it through word LIFE.
The plaintiffs alleged that ingestion of toxic chemicals (trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene) used in this industries, which were tested in water samples from municipal wells, were responsible for the severe health effects. According to those who drank it, the water smelled and had an objectionable taste. The case, which eventually grew to involve eight families and three defendants (UniFirst Corporation), raised considerable hopes. One resident, Ann Anderson whose three year old son was diagnostic with leukemia in 1967, started to believe that the water produced by H and G was responsible for the group of leukemia cases and other illness in her neighborhood. Jimmy Anderson, Anne’s youngest child, died of acute lymphocytic leukemia in 1981, at the age of 12.
Which is a class c felony and they will be fined of $50,000 to $200,000 plus three years in prison. According to the collage of tropical agriculture and human resources university of Hawaii at Manoa said that in 2003 there was an effort to eradicate the frogs with citric acid but because they bread quickly they are not able to kill
This is very unfortunate when most countries in Africa do not have clean running water and here Starbucks is washing it down the drain without thought. After being under fire for this incident Starbucks soon ordered the taps to be turned off. They did not want to risk any additional negative publicity about the company along with the information getting back to its stakeholders and consumers The U.K. public relations agency tried to warn Starbucks of doing such a thing and that the incident would threaten the companies’ ethical position, PR week reported. This is a very common way of hiding the truth when it comes to these big companies such as Starbucks. They hide the truth when it could really damage their image and the company can potential lose billions of customers.
They wanted to intervene as little as possible so they left it alone. Then in 1848 there was a dreadful cholera epidemic which ended up killing around 53,000 people, they said cholera was the worst outbreak of disease since the plague. Cholera is an infection of the small intestine caused by bacteria, it started off with symptoms like diarrhoea and vomiting which then lead to dehydration which weakened the livers, and usually within 48 hours, it ended with death. The worst part about cholera was that nobody understood it, no-one knew how it spread, no-one knew a cure. The town was starting to stink from all the sewage and rubbish, and people started
At the same time, supplies water to Kiev's 2.4 million residents. This caused a major problem to the people as now; their drinking water is contaminated with radioactive materials. Other than that, the radioactivity in the seas, lakes and rivers became a threat to aquatic life. Thankfully, the groundwater was slightly affected because the radioactive material fortunately decayed before it could reach the groundwater supplies. Four kilometers of pine trees turned reddish-brown after the accident.
The Great Lakes I believe the Great Lakes are polluted beyond belief. I don’t think people realize how bad it really is. It isn’t near as bad as it use to be, but it is still awful. I mean sure they banned PCBs and DDT, but there is still so much toxic waste and other pollutants going into the lakes. I think people have just gotten use to the area being like this, which really frightens me.
For the first case, a massive flood displaced nearly eight-hundred graves in Hardin, Missouri in 1993. Authorities found displaced human remains over twenty-six square miles of land; fifty people were killed; 55,000 homes were damaged or destroyed; 58,000 people were displaced. It was a truly atrocious, upsetting scenario in which the likelihood of finding bodies was very low, and the procedures were costly. The public expected a lot from the anthropologists, hoping that they would work quickly and be able to recover all of the bodies of their missing families and friends. (Shows like “CSI” and “FBI” may give people an unrealistic expectation of these sorts of jobs.)
Armando Aguilar, the president of Miami's Fraternal Order of Police was widely cited as claiming that Eugene must have been under the influence of drugs, probably some kind of "bath salts." (Sullum). Paul Adams, a local emergency room physician, does not seem to have explicitly blamed Eugene's crime on bath salts; however, WFOR used him to confirm and amplify Aguilar's unfounded speculation, treating the two as interchangeable experts. As the story picked up, so did America’s fear of a street drug so bad it would turn users into flesh eating killers. Almost overnight, the attention to a ‘drug’ with nearly no research on it became the new evil of the drug world.
Baily Murphy 27 Analytical Paper Water Fluoridation “Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century, if not of all time,” -Dr. Robert Carton, former US Environmental Protection Agency worker (Groves, 2001). The food you eat, the water you drink, and the air you breathe is contaminated with a toxic amount of sodium fluoride that is placed in the public water supply by the U.S. government (Murphy, 2008, p. 22). Doctors prescribe fluoride supplements to you and your children, because it is known to prevent cavities. Fluoride enters your body every single day, but it never exits. It accumulates in your bones and will most likely be related to the cause of your death (Sauerheber, 2011).