New study: More workers than consumers die from methylene chloride; EPA should ban these paint strippers in the workplace

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The publication today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) of a peer-reviewed study by the University of California, San Francisco Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE)—Fatalities from methylene chloride exposure in the United States, 1980-2018: A comprehensive case series and policy implications—adds to the strong case for EPA to fully ban the use of paint strippers containing methylene chloride from use in the United States.

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New study: More workers than consumers die from methylene chloride; EPA should ban these paint strippers in the workplace

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