The Neighborhood Toxicologist

Just a brief note as I prepare a longer (and more depressing article) on farmed fish - salmon in particular. Hearing how local wild caught C...

For those interested in reading more about the estrogenic plasticizer bisphenol A (BPA), the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel just published its o...

What to buy if you’re compelled towards holiday consumerism, yet feel just a twinge of guilt when you pick out the latest hot-pink cell phon...

Ok, this is it. One last word on grapefruit juice. As both JLowe at Impact Analysis and my sister who actually reads the Wall Street Journa...

A few weeks back, I wrote about drug interactions. On the recommendation of my editor (it was originally for the local paper,) I'd remo...

It's not easy finding information on the waste products, the energy used, or the carbon dioxide produced by your favorite shoe manufactu...

As many are aware by now, there's been a lot of interest in Bindeez beads, the toy beads that can turn toxic if or when ingested. I fir...

Many years ago, my father suffered a TIA or transient ischemic attack – a sort of mini-stroke. This episode occurred in association with a v...

The following article about Nestle's interest in our local water isn't my usual entry, but after noticing that the moderate sized ta...

An ongoing debate about the health impacts of bisphenol A (BPA), the ubiquitous chemical used in production of polycarbonate - that hard cle...

Years ago as a budding toxicologist I studied a fascinating system called cytochrome P45 0 , so called because under certain conditions one ...

Say goodbye to PBDEs (well... at least in some states, in some products in the near future.) There’s one of those rare heartening report...

We recycle bottles, computers and paper. But what about clothing? Many of us think we’re doing some good by sorting through t-shirts and sho...

Electronic Recycling Parts I and II: Reprinted from the Montague Reporter Part I When I mentioned I was doing some research into e-waste, or...

As any toxicologist will tell you, and as most of us know, too much of a good thing - or in toxicology, too much of just about anything can ...

Crossposted from Earth Forum: Sidney's post on Waste Management, prompted me to add this post. When I read his title, my own thoughts ju...

Here’s one for the “why didn’t we figure this out sooner” file, or maybe the “gee – those of us air-breathers really are different from our ...

Our bodies are constantly working, transforming chemicals from one form to another like that bagel and cream cheese I had for breakfast into...

For those of us concerned with health and environmental impacts of new and old chemicals, the production and use of nanomaterials presents a...

There is a nice review of Emerging Contaminants , recently published in the journal Analytical Chemistry, by Susan Richardson. In it is a r...