[CPEO-BIF] "Toxics put pregnant Googlers at risk, expert says, " Mountain View, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxics put pregnant Googlers at risk, expert says

Short-term exposure to TCE can cause fetal heart problems, studies show

by Daniel DeBolt
Mountain View Voice (CA)
February 28, 2013

The elevated levels of toxic TCE vapors recently found in Google  
offices on Whisman Road and elsewhere should be a concern for  
pregnant women, even from brief exposures, according to EPA documents  
and a local toxics cleanup expert.

"I'd want to know more, especially if I were pregnant, I'd want to  
know what's going on," said Lenny Siegel, director of the Center for  
Public Environmental Oversight in Mountain View. Google employees  
"should have been told. I don't know if they were told anything."

A Google spokesperson said employees have been notified and an  
internal website has been set up with information on TCE and indoor  
air testing results.

TCE (trichloroethylene) has contaminated groundwater in the area and  
was recently found evaporating into Google's offices at 369 and 379  
Whisman Road at levels above EPA limits.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=6685&e=y#add_comments

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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