The Sunday Times of London published a disturbing story today regarding paint used on cruise ships and other vessels which could leach into the ship’s water tanks. The newspaper reports that the potable water supplies may have been contaminated and posed a cancer risk to thousands of cruise passengers.
The paint could leach the toxin acrylonitrile, described as a tumor-causing probable
The Telegraph newspaper in the U.K. contains an interesting story today about the use of gag orders by large corporations in England to prevent the public from learning of potential safety hazards.
Called "hyper-injunctions," the gag orders are used to protect a corporation’s reputation by barring an individual from discussing embarrassing information which may affect a corporation’s business and legal interests.
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