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March 9, 2000
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Deborah Pankey Stewart
dps@jhu.edu
410-516-7157
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Home Sweet Home or Toxic Waste Dump?
A Lecture at Hopkins
Timothy J. Buckley, assistant professor in the Department of
Environmental
Health Sciences of Johns Hopkins University's
School of Hygiene and Public Health, will give a lecture
"Home Sweet Home or
Toxic Waste Dump?" at noon on Wednesday, April 12, in Shriver
Hall on the Hopkins
Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore.
For most families, the home is the single most important
site of environmental
health. It is where they eat, sleep and spend most of their time.
Unfortunately, it is also
where pollutants and contaminants can concentrate in all the
environmental media to
which they are exposed: air, food, drinking water and surface
dust. This accumulation of
pollutants is due in large measure to the family's personal
activities and the products
they buy.
Buckley's talk will look at the realities of home
environmental health issues and
the combined efforts of a team of researchers who analyzed the
indoor concentration of
toxic fumes, which are a chemical group known as polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons
(PAH). PAH compounds can affect people with respiratory diseases
and have been
linked to lung cancer.
This lecture is part of the Wednesday Noon Series presented
by the Johns
Hopkins University Office of Special Events. Admission is free.
For information, call the
Office of Special Events at
410-516-7157.
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