Toxicology & Exposures

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (385+ words) TUCSON, Ariz. -- A new public-private partnership could significantly accelerate the cleanup of toxic "forever chemicals" in local groundwater. Tucson city officials are working on an agreement with a nonprofit organization that is expected to speed up the removal of harmful…...

4+ hour, 55+ min ago   (1025+ words) Jyoti and Bharat Patel are "super testers" of dementia technology in an NHS trial There are sensors in every room of Jyoti and Bharat Patel's home. Their movements and habits are monitored constantly. But this doesn't worry them, in fact…...

1+ hour, 10+ min ago   (488+ words) Ciprofloxacin, one of the world’s most widely prescribed fluoroquinolone antibiotics, has become a stubborn fixture of the global water cycle. Detected in surface waters, groundwater and even drinking water supplies at concentrations ranging from nanograms to micrograms per liter, the…...

8+ hour, 58+ min ago   (19+ words) Discover how the EPA's regulation on PFAS (Forever Chemicals) affects environmental safety in agriculture and land management....

19+ hour, 3+ min ago   (426+ words) Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs), dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (DL-PCBs), and six indicator non-dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (NDL-PCBs) were determined in 20 independent raw ruminant-milk samples (16 cow, 3 buffalo, and 1 goat) by gas chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry. Toxic equivalency (TEQ) was calculated using…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1064+ words) Mary Fontana doesn't trust the water that comes out of the tap in her upstate New York home. Nor do most of her neighbors in Tupper Lake, an Adirondacks village where she is mayor. "When I'm putting my kid in…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (424+ words) Ethiopia is preparing to launch a national roadmap aimed at reducing children’s exposure to lead by 60 percent, as environmental and health authorities warn that limited medical testing capacity, informal recycling, and a deficit of hazardous-waste facilities pose growing public health…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (99+ words) For departments like St. Paul's, the decision involves weighing the documented concerns about PFAS against the durability, thermal protection and cost that replacement gear must deliver. Shapira's experience has given the discussion an additional personal significance, but the available reporting…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (313+ words) U.S. veterans aged 20 to 39 were found to have higher blood levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, than civilians of similar ages, according to a new study from researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brown University. The…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (573+ words) NMED Secretary Kenney says the state will fight the ruling. New Mexico’s effort to require manufacturers to label consumer products that contain so-called ‘forever chemicals’ infringes on commercially protected speech, according to a preliminary injunction issued Wednesday by U.S....