The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) proposes to reduce the eight-hour time-weighted average exposure threshold limit value (TLV) for benzene to 0.02 ppm and reduce ...

The federal safety level for benzene, a leukemia-causing air toxin found throughout Houston and routinely inhaled by petrochemical plant workers, is too high to protect workers from blood cell ...

In a study published in the December 3 issue of Science, researchers led by Qing Lan and Nathanial Rothman of the National Cancer Institute and Martyn Smith of University of California-Berkeley ...

A recent review found that benzene exposure due to work may be linked to the development of colorectal cancer. Colorectal cancer is the third most common type of cancer in the world and second leading ...

Powerful carcinogen benzene showed up in water samples up to a mile away after the C6-Zero plant explosion Company founder Howard Brand had used benzene in past shingle recycling efforts, according to ...

Johnson & Johnson issued a recall July 14 for all lots of several of its Neutrogena and Aveeno aerosol sunscreens because of benzene contamination. Benzene is a known carcinogen that can be absorbed ...