Content about Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

September 25, 2012
Survey: Clean workplace restrooms valued by employees

The results of a new national survey revealed that the majority of U.S. workers believe that the state and cleanliness of their workplace restrooms is one indicator of how a company values its employees.

March 30, 2012
The wrong stripping agents can kill

An investigation into the death of a Michigan bathtub refinisher in 2010 has uncovered more than a dozen other fatalities that may be related to the same chemical compound. In the Feb. 24 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, researchers looked at the effect of methylene chloride, a paint-stripping product marketed for use in aircraft maintenance.

March 1, 2012
Fatalities found among bathtub refinishers

An investigation into the death of a Michigan bathtub refinisher in 2010 has uncovered more than a dozen other fatalities that may be related to the same chemical compound. In the Feb. 24 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, researchers looked at the effect of methylene chloride, a paint-stripping product for aircraft maintenance marketed for use in aircraft maintenance. 

February 1, 2011
CDC finds no link between drywall, deaths

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in a report provided to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), has found no evidence linking exposure to “problem” drywall and 11 deaths.

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