Those benefits have to be weighed against the risk of chemical by-products created when a disinfectant reacts with organics in the water, or decomposes. Scientists realized in the 1970s that ...

in chloraminated water—a level surpassing the typical limits for regulated disinfection by-products, which range from 60 to 80 μg/L. Although the compound's toxicity has yet to be assessed ...

Though chlorine remains the most widely used disinfectant in the US and globally, chloramines have increasingly replaced it in many systems to reduce certain by-products linked to bladder and ...

Since the 1970s, scientists have found chlorinated water can contain chemical byproducts that at high enough doses have been ...

Reckitt Benckiser, a leading manufacturer of disinfectant products including Lysol and Dettol, has issued a statement in response to the president's comments. It said: "We must be clear that under ...

Common water disinfectant creates potentially toxic byproduct: study A group of chemical compounds used to disinfect water for one-third of the US population and millions of others globally produces a ...