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How Creosote Adversely Affects Americans

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The severe nature of exposure to creosote has marked it, as well as similar chemical byproducts including coal tar, coal tar pitch and coal tar pitch volatiles, as a deadly carcinogenic that can cause an array of diseases anywhere from liver and kidney disease to throat and stomach pain, depending on the type of exposure.

Reports describing poisoning in workers exposed to coal tar creosote, or in people who accidentally or intentionally ate coal tar creosote, indicate that brief exposure to large amounts of coal tar creosote may result in a rash or severe irritation of the skin, chemical burns of the surfaces of the eye, convulsions and mental confusion, kidney or liver problems, unconsciousness, or even death.

However, when an individual is exposed to lower levels of creosote over longer periods of time and direct skin contact occurs, the risk of skin damage similar to a severe sunburn as well as cornea damage are increased. Longer exposures to the vapors of the creosotes, coal tar, coal tar pitch, or coal tar pitch volatiles can also cause irritation of the respiratory tract.

With direct skin contact during wood treatment or other manufacture of creosote-treated products as well as coke and natural gas factories, causes skin and scrotum cancer.

Prolonged skin exposure to soot and coal tar creosote has been associated with cancer of the scrotum in chimney sweepers. In studies, rats and mice fed a large amount of wood creosote at one time had convulsions and died. Laboratory studies on animals, such as rats, found that when fed small amounts of wood creosote over time, usually the rats developed liver and kidney diesease, eventually resulting in death. Exposure to coal tar products through the skin has resulted in skin cancer in animals.

Animals intentionally exposed to coal-tar contaminated food eventually developed lung, liver and stomach cancer, according to studies. Additionally, air exposure to coal tar caused the development of lung and skin cancers.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified coal tar as carcinogenic to humans and creosote as probably carcinogenic to humans. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has also identified coal tar creosote as a probable human carcinogen.

Testing for Creosote Exposure

Unfortunately, no medical test can determine if a person has suffered exposure to wood creosote, coal tar creosote, coal tar, coal tar pitch mixtures, or coal tar pitch volatiles. Although, chemicals that exist in creosote can be detected and measured by medical physicians through body tissue, blood and urine tests. Typically, doctors perform such tests on employees who work with and are exposed to coal tar creosote, coal tar, and coal tar pitch to monitor their exposure.

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