EHPnet: Consumer Action Guide to Toxic Chemicals in Toys

Toxic Toys

principal investigator for the team. His collaborators were Jean-Pierre Kinet, a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School who first cloned the gene for the IgE receptor in 1986, and Scott Garman, a postdoctoral fellow in the Northwestern Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology. About 50 million people in the United States have some form of allergy. Many allergies...

EHPnet: All Things Toxic

When it is discovered that a toxicant in the environment may pose a threat to human health, a multitude of questions arise. People in the affected community want to know if they could have been exposed to the toxicant, and if so, whether they may get sick from the exposure, and how to avoid any risk the toxicant might pose. Physicians and epi-demiologists need current information on how to diag...

EHPnet: Chemical Guide

Neighbors When the people of Midland, Michigan, heard in November 1998 that toxic dust had been spilled repeatedly at The Dow Chemical Company's plant there, concern and confusion followed. While the chemical giant kept largely silent, rumors spread about the chemicals contained in the dust and what effect they might have on humans and the environment. Some environmentalists accused Dow of tryi...

Pesticides and toxic chemicals

‘Contamination’ is a comparative term. In Britain at least, contaminants are trace substances; in the context of food they are distinguished from additives by whether or not there is an intention that the substances should be present when the food is consumed or prepared for consumption. Contaminants may be of natural or of technological origin: and technological contaminants may be direct or i...

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