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The women who made America’s microchips and the children who paid for it
The US wants to manufacture chips again — but there’s a dark, overlooked history.
The Verge sought out legal documents and old media reports to find Mark and some of his peers — a generation of kids, now adults, whose parents say they paid the price for lax workplace standards in an industry that uses an ever-evolving cocktail of chemicals to make computer chips. Looking at instances of women who sought healthcare for a miscarriage, the researchers found higher rates among microelectronics workers compared to control groups of bank employees, the larger working population, and “economically inactive women.” The authors also said, however, that more studies “based on primary data collection and careful surveillance are required to confirm these results.” The agency itself says its exposure limits “are outdated and inadequate for ensuring protection of worker health” and recommends that employers adhere to more recent guidelines developed by the state of California, the NIOSH, and the nonprofit American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists.
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