"Many of the rivets studied by the scientists — recovered from the Titanic’s resting place two miles down in the North Atlantic by divers over two decades — were found to be riddled with high concentrations of slag."**********
"A glassy residue of smelting, slag can make rivets brittle and prone to fracture."
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LAST WORD: Canada bucks the trend
The conclusion by Health Canada that BPA is a possible threat, expected to be announced as early as Wednesday, will amount to one of the most important regulatory decisions regarding a single chemical in decades, and will put pressure on its counterparts at both the European Union and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reconsider their approval.*
“If this chemical is listed as toxic by Health Canada, it will be an internationally significant decision,” Mr. Smith said.
U.S. tests have found that more than 90 per cent of the population carries in their bodies trace residues of the chemical, whose molecular shape allows it to mimic the female hormone estrogen.