Cancer-causing chemical found in peanuts, cooking oil
Food safety regulators in a Chinese province have detected carcinogenic substance Aflatoxin in peanuts
News Section | Toxicology
New ‘glow’ detectors easily identify toxins, pathogens or explosives
Researchers at MIT have developed new detectors that could provide easy visual identification of specific chemicals — whether toxins
Popular painkillers can turn into real killers
Paracetamol, one of the most popular painkillers, could cause fatal liver damage and even death if taken in large doses for uninterrupted periods
Scientists track mercury poisoning risk from diets
Mercury in diets could whittle down the power of antioxidants and cause serious threats to health by accumulating in the body, aver scientists
Fast test for severe form of food poisoning
A fast and reliable new test under development could help people avoid a terrible type of food poisoning that comes from eating fish tainted with a difficult-to-detect toxin from marine algae growing in warm waters
Your breath can tell toxic substances
Testing exhaled breath could be a swift way to tell whether people have been exposed to toxic substances
BPA exposure in womb doesn’t affect male mice testes later in life
Brown University toxicologists have found that male mice exposed to Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical found in many plastic products
How humans avoid carbon monoxide poisoning
Scientists have figured out how humans and other organisms avoid poisoning by carbon monoxide produced within the body
Bugs generate power while cleaning nuclear waste
Researchers have figured out how a class of bugs can deliver double benefit — generate power while cleaning
China’s environmental watchdog to ban new industrial projects till removal of toxic waste
China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection, will suspend all new industrial project reviews and ban new projects in Qujing in Yunnan province
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