Airborne hazards are potentially toxic substances that a person is exposed to when breathing air. These hazards may be dusts, particles, fibers, mists, vapors, fumes or gases.

Medium-chain chlorinated paraffins (MCCPs) are already known to be toxic to aquatic life—now we're finding them in the air.

This invisible chemical layer, formed when skin oils react with ozone in the air, produces hydroxyl radicals that act as a personal air filter, neutralizing harmful airborne substances, according ...

Workers and residents in communities surrounding industrial facilities where these substances are manufactured, used, or stored and in communities along the nation's railways and highways are ...

Several staff members and inmates at the Lorain Correctional Institution were hospitalized over the weekend after investigators say they were possibly exposed to an "unknown airborne substance." ...

Local inmates, staff hospitalized after possibly exposed to ‘unknown airborne substance’ by: Jordan Unger. Posted: Feb 3, 2025 / 07:29 PM EST. Updated: Feb 4, 2025 / 08:42 AM EST.

Medium-chain chlorinated paraffins, or MCCPs, have been detected in the air of Asia and Antarctica, but this surprise ...