As far as I can tell from my casual research on the subject, not
one single human has ever contracted a case of liver cancer
proven to be caused by exposure to trichloroethylene. Plenty
of rats have, but the amounts they were exposed to, or ingested
would never happen in real life.... well, not unless you were
trying to commit suicide with the stuff.



Up in Woburn Mass there was a company that made production line machinery
for the pharmaceutical industry. They would sometimes take greasy gears out
back and clean them off with trich and dump the residue on the ground. Not
much, maybe 50 gallons over several years. Unfortunately, there was an
underground aquifer that ran there and led to a town well. In the
neighborhood the well fed, there was an extremely high incidence of leukemia
in children. Big time incidence. This was very real and a great tragedy
for many families.

I worked next door (Cummings Industrial Park) and used to watch the hazmat
crews digging the whole place up. We wouldn't drink the town water even
after they said it was cleaned up.

Just because your "casual research" doesn't come up with something doesn't
mean there isn't something there.

Peter