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A BioLab facility in Georgia blew up two weeks ago, sending a rancid cloud of chemicals into the air

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68% Informative

At least six complaints have been lodged against BioLab , the company that owns the factory, and its parent company, KIK Consumer Products .

In 2004 , a fire broke out at a BioLab warehouse at the facility in Conyers that contained about 12.5 million pounds of pool chemicals and oxidizers.

In 2016 , the Rockdale County fire department responded to a chemical decomposition incident of a swimming pool chemical giving off smoke.

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