Time for a TUMS. You guessed it, TUMS is made in St. Louis. Or how about a cold beverage: Fitzâs Root Beer, located in The Loop, uses a vintage 1940âs bottling line that turns out a bottle a second. Thereâs also Vess Soda, Thomas Coffee, Ronnoco, Schlafly, and Kraftig, all from STL.
Two of the better-known toxic molds include Stachybotrys chartarum (black mold), which can cause everything from headaches to cancer, and Aspergillus, which can cause severe lung infections, or progress to whole-body infections. Mold is particularly dangerous for infants and children.
Black lung is a serious, and sometimes fatal, disease caused by exposure to coal mine dust. Black lung causes permanent lung damage, which can affect breathing and normal heart function. Coal miners who develop black lung can file claims under state and federal workersâ compensation laws, which provide benefits for workers with occupational lung diseases. What is Black Lung? Black lung (also called coal workersâ pneumoconiosis) is a disease that is caused by inhaling coal mine dust.