Steigerwalt & Associates
01-Sep-2007, 10:19 AM
Welcome to Legal Chat Online, an online community that's being managed by Steigerwalt & Associates, a law firm that has decades of experience in helping those who have been wrongfully harmed by any number of causes. If you are visiting the PCBs thread within our Chemical Exposure section, then you may have been exposed to these harmful substances and are wondering what to do next.
Our forums exist for the following reasons:
1. To provide a means by which to contact our firm to receive the legal help you may need if you've been injured as a result of exposure to toxic substances.
2. To provide our visitors with facts, perspectives and general information regarding these substances and the injuries they tend to cause.
3. To invite the perspectives and knowledge of all of our visitors, as sharing information is a tremendous help towards alerting people of dangers and how to avoid them.
4. To come together as a community and help everyone understand how to avoid the exposure that leads to serious health problems.
Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, have been around for decades in the United States, and they are a set of chemical compounds that were originally formulated to help with general industrial needs, including cooling fluids for transformers and for help with the stability of PVC wirings, among other products.
The problem with PCBs is that over time, massive amounts of these chemicals were dumped into rivers, lakes and streams, which badly contaminated the marine environment on which so many people depend on for food, work and other needs.
PCBs have been linked to several maladies, and these links were actually first discovered by the deaths of sea birds and fish that began to wash onto shores in alarming numbers.
In terms of their effects on humans, PCBs can cause anything from irritating skin rashes to cancer, depending on the amount and duration of exposure. The most common way for exposure to occur is by eating fish from bodies of water polluted by PCBs.
If you have been harmed by this substance, please contact the firm immediately to schedule a consultation. Otherwise, please feel free to share your wisdom, and we welcome you once again.
Our forums exist for the following reasons:
1. To provide a means by which to contact our firm to receive the legal help you may need if you've been injured as a result of exposure to toxic substances.
2. To provide our visitors with facts, perspectives and general information regarding these substances and the injuries they tend to cause.
3. To invite the perspectives and knowledge of all of our visitors, as sharing information is a tremendous help towards alerting people of dangers and how to avoid them.
4. To come together as a community and help everyone understand how to avoid the exposure that leads to serious health problems.
Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, have been around for decades in the United States, and they are a set of chemical compounds that were originally formulated to help with general industrial needs, including cooling fluids for transformers and for help with the stability of PVC wirings, among other products.
The problem with PCBs is that over time, massive amounts of these chemicals were dumped into rivers, lakes and streams, which badly contaminated the marine environment on which so many people depend on for food, work and other needs.
PCBs have been linked to several maladies, and these links were actually first discovered by the deaths of sea birds and fish that began to wash onto shores in alarming numbers.
In terms of their effects on humans, PCBs can cause anything from irritating skin rashes to cancer, depending on the amount and duration of exposure. The most common way for exposure to occur is by eating fish from bodies of water polluted by PCBs.
If you have been harmed by this substance, please contact the firm immediately to schedule a consultation. Otherwise, please feel free to share your wisdom, and we welcome you once again.