Toxicology – Page 5
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NewsUpdated European regulation spells uncertainty for food nanomaterials
Questions over nanomaterial definition could hamper use in foods
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News‘Map’ of chemical landscape could cut animal testing
Searchable database of 10,000 chemicals could help to create safety profiles for untested compounds
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NewsDoubts raised about key BPA substitute
Mounting research suggests a favoured bisphenol A replacement has similar biological effects and may be no safer
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ResearchBoost for non-animal toxicology testing
Thousands of compounds have been screened in a bid to develop in vitro toxicity tests
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OpinionRethinking risk assessment
Toxicologists must embrace better ways of accounting for low dose effects, argue Annamaria Colacci and Nicole Kleinstreuer
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Research
Early lead exposure linked to sleep problems
Researchers find lead exposure in early childhood is associated with sleep difficulties later on
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BusinessAdvancing animal testing alternatives
Animal rights groups are engaging with researchers and regulators to develop replacement tests and ensure they’re adopted
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PodcastA is for Arsenic by Kathryn Harkup – Book club
In the first of a brand new podcast series, we get together to discuss ‘A is for Arsenic: the poisons of Agatha Christie’
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Pepsi sets limit on caramel colouring chemical
Firm establishes legal threshold for the caramel food colouring by-product 4-MEI that California lists as a carcinogen
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FeatureAgatha Christie, the queen of crime chemistry
Kathryn Harkup looks at how Agatha Christie used chemistry in her detective novels
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Research
Phthalate replacements linked to child health problems
Levels of two plasticisers in children found to correlate with higher blood pressure and insulin resistance
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NewsEPA under pressure over Enlist Duo herbicide
WHO has designated Enlist Duo’s two ingredients as a probable and possible human carcinogens
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ReviewVenoms to drugs: venom as a source for the development of human therapeutics
Defanging chemistry
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NewsScientists call for ban on fluorinated chemicals
The Madrid Statement, signed by 200 scientists, urges consumers to avoid PFAS-containing products
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FeatureBig problems with little particles?
There is a risk that poor toxicology studies could start undermining the success of nanomaterials, reports Elinor Hughes
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FeatureIt's a bloody business
Determining the role drugs and poisons may have played in death is the responsibility of forensic toxicologists. Nina Notman reports
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NewsUS on track to phase out most long-chain perfluorinated chemicals this year
Discontinuation deadline likely to be met, with measures in place to prevent these chemicals re-entering the US market
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BPA use poses 'no health risks', says EU
A European Food Safety Authority evaluation has found the use of BPA in plastics does not cause harm
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NewsVeterinary painkiller threatens Europe's vultures
Drugs that almost drove vultures to extinction on the Indian sub-continent are now being used in Europe