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Tag: Toxicology

Why you can salvage moldy cheese but never spoiled meat −...

Brad Reisfeld, Colorado State University When you open the refrigerator and find a wedge of cheese flecked with green...

Wildfire smoke leaves harmful gases in floors and walls − air...

Delphine Farmer, Colorado State University When wildfire smoke turns the air brown and hazy, you might think about...

What is xylazine? A medical toxicologist explains how it increases overdose...

Kavita Babu, UMass Chan Medical School The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration issued a warning on Mar. 21, 2023, about...

Poisons are a potent tool for murder in fiction – a...

Brad Reisfeld, Colorado State University People have used poisons throughout history for a variety of purposes: to hunt animals...

EPA’s plan to regulate chemical contaminants in drinking water is a...

Laurel Schaider, Harvard University After more than a year of community meetings and deliberations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced in February 2019 that it...

Tiny beads, big problem, easy fix: why scientific evidence supports a...

Chelsea Rochman, University of California, Davis and Sara Kross, University of California, Davis Every day, millions of people around the world wash their skin and...