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Recent Examples of toxicant
The incidence of obesity, kidney disease, and prostate disease increased in each subsequent generation after the first toxicant exposure.
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Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 2 Feb. 2024
Interestingly, our group has recently shown that toxicants in food or food packaging, like pesticides, mercury and phthalates – chemicals used to manufacture plastics – can affect sleep.
—Erica Jansen, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
Nicotine pouches are purportedly intended to help people stop smoking cigarettes, Irfan Rahman, PhD, who runs a lab that conducts research on toxicants at the University of Rochester Medicine, told Health.
—Maggie O'Neill, Health, 28 Nov. 2023
Children are particularly at risk to exposure from toxicants like styrene, said Timothy Nurkiewicz, director of West Virginia University’s Toxicology Working Group and Inhalation Facilities.
—USA TODAY, 11 June 2023
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Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 2 Feb. 2024
Interestingly, our group has recently shown that toxicants in food or food packaging, like pesticides, mercury and phthalates – chemicals used to manufacture plastics – can affect sleep.
—Erica Jansen, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
Nicotine pouches are purportedly intended to help people stop smoking cigarettes, Irfan Rahman, PhD, who runs a lab that conducts research on toxicants at the University of Rochester Medicine, told Health.
—Maggie O'Neill, Health, 28 Nov. 2023
Children are particularly at risk to exposure from toxicants like styrene, said Timothy Nurkiewicz, director of West Virginia University’s Toxicology Working Group and Inhalation Facilities.
—USA TODAY, 11 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for toxicant
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Among them: pesticides flowing from nearby farms, heavy metals like mercury and arsenic and chemicals like PFAS (a.k.a.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
10 Jan. 2025
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Sprayers are used to apply pesticides, growth regulators, and nutrients to ensure a healthy crop.—
Andrew J. Hawkins,
The Verge,
6 Jan. 2025
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Post-emergent herbicides can be used more selectively, but also pose environmental risks, including toxicity to birds, bees, and mammals that consume or contact them.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
1 Jan. 2025
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Fennimore specializes in vegetables, for which there are few herbicide options, and there are fewer still for organic growers.—
Michelle Weber,
Longreads,
7 Nov. 2024
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Rodenticides and insecticides are extremely harmful if pets ingest them directly or eat affected pests.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
3 Jan. 2025
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The carcinogenic insecticide did not show up in a single unregulated product.—
Paige St. John,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Dec. 2024
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To raise healthy plants, conventional horticulture banked on the intensive use of chemicals such as fungicides to ward off all kinds of diseases.—
Shi En Kim,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 Oct. 2024
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Although the dangers of fungicides are still being studied, they are linked to developmental delays in children and hormonal disruptions in adults.—
Todd A. Price,
The Tennessean,
5 Apr. 2024
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The character has survived explosions, murder attempts, alcoholism, a car accident, multiple exposures to deadly toxins, stalking, a hostage crisis, and more.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
13 Jan. 2025
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Researchers also noted an increase in lung cancer cases, but the incline was commonly attributed to other types of inhaled toxins, like automobile exhaust, tar fumes and factory smog.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
11 Jan. 2025
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Young southern Africans like Estância grew up not with the injustice of colonialism, but with the poisons of poverty and corruption that followed it.—
Ryan Lenora Brown,
The Christian Science Monitor,
15 Jan. 2025
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Anyone who eats death cap mushrooms may fall ill, then appear to recover, but the poison can then cause liver failure or death, officials said.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacramento Bee,
6 Jan. 2025
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This strategy has amplified his visibility but has also drawn criticism for aligning with internet personalities accused of toxic and, for some, abusive behaviors.—
Kia Turner,
refinery29.com,
28 Nov. 2024
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Fipronil is also high toxic to fish and aquatic invertebrates.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
22 Nov. 2024
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“Toxicant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toxicant. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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