Heavy metal pollution limits shouldn't just keep humans safe, but other animals too, say Coline Monchanin and Mathieu Lihoreau

This paper reviews toxicological research involving fluorocitrate, the toxic metabolite of sodium monofluoroacetate (fluoroacetate), which is the active ingredient in the pesticide Compound 1080. Many toxicological studies have been done with fluoroacetate and the results obtained are actually due to the fluorocitrate because it has been definitely proved that, from a biochemical perspective,fl...

The study of the competitive outcome associated with two consumers of the same resource, algae, is investigated under asymmetric intraguild interactions and carrying capacities that are a function of resource (algae) availability at any time. The mathematical model is motivated by our understanding of the interactions of genus Protoperidinium (toxin producing) and Heterocapsa (non-toxic produci...

No studies were located that examined health effects in humans or animals exposed to threeor fourmembered mixtures of the five components of concern. No PBPK models were found for threeor fourmembered mixtures of these chemicals. The following subsections present evaluations of health effects data and discussions of mechanistic information pertinent to the joint toxic action of each pair of com...