SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The finance director of Oxy Korea was summoned Thursday as the first among a number of foreign executives who will be questioned in relation to the production and sales of the toxic humidifier sterilizers that resulted in numerous deaths and illnesses here. Ulrich Hosterbach appeared before the Seoul Central [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) – With the latest controversy over the humidifier sterilizer scandal, consumers are become more anxious regarding daily products that contain chemicals. Fear and suspicion over chemical content are causing an overall decline in purchases of these products. Experts advise that the widespread fear over general daily products is unnecessary, and [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Environment Minister Yoon Seong-kyu offered an apology Wednesday over legal loopholes in controlling toxic humidifier sterilizers that are believed to have caused the deaths of more than 100 people. The humidifier disinfectant case, one of the worst scandals involving a consumer product using chemicals, came to light after four pregnant [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwre) – Years of exposure to humidifier sterilizers increased the risk for severe lung damage in users by 116 times more than in those not exposed to the chemicals, a state health agency said Sunday. In August 2011, when the government acknowledged a connection between lung problems and the chemicals used [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Prosecutors raided the office of a Seoul National University (SNU) professor in the country’s capital and arrested the scholar Wednesday over allegations he manipulated reports on Oxy Reckitt Benckiser products in return for money. Oxy is currently being probed by state prosecutors over its toxic humidifier sterilizers that have [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean government announced that it will re-examine potential health damages to the respiratory system and other organs from humidifier disinfectants. The Ministry of Environment’s Humidifier Disinfectant Investigations Committee revealed that it will study the possibility of rhinitis, bronchitis, and other potential non-pulmonary damages resulting from humidifier disinfectants, and [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Four survivors and families of Koreans whose mysterious deaths were allegedly caused by a personal humidifier sterilizer agent will visit the main headquarters of Reckitt Benckiser in the U.K from May 19 to 22. The association of the victims and the Asian Citizen’s Center for Environment and Health held [...]