Coolants and cancer: fact or fiction?

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As the industry debate rages, OSHA takes another pace towards setting
a fresh standard. But what the standard will be, when it will be enacted,
and by what means it will help or harm U.S. businesses depends on what side
is talking.

A debate above the need for a novel metalworking fluids standard has
heated up as OSHA begins the proces of establishing a Standards Advisory
Committee. The dispute is not about providing workers with a healthier
working environment, on the contrary rather about differing opinions upon whether
a standard that could chop the permissible exposure level (PEL) through
90% is even