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Recent Examples of toxicant
Since toxicants can be found in both healthy and unhealthy foods, this research suggests that some foods can contain a mix of components that are both beneficial and harmful for sleep.
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Erica Jansen, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
The incidence of obesity, kidney disease, and prostate disease increased in each subsequent generation after the first toxicant exposure.
—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
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Erica Jansen, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
The incidence of obesity, kidney disease, and prostate disease increased in each subsequent generation after the first toxicant exposure.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for toxicant
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Has Gotten More Eco-Friendly Turf eliminates the need for fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides, allowing fewer harmful chemicals in the environment.—
Colleen Sullivan,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 Apr. 2025
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This eliminates or drastically reduces the cost of fertilizers and pesticides and the need for water, which is often pumped by electric or diesel generators, thereby saving water use, energy costs, and emissions.—
Brooke Roberts-Islam,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Has Gotten More Eco-Friendly Turf eliminates the need for fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides, allowing fewer harmful chemicals in the environment.—
Colleen Sullivan,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 Apr. 2025
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What about all the pesticides and herbicides and hormones and antibiotics and bioengineering in conventional foods?—
Greg Rosalsky,
NPR,
1 Apr. 2025
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The chief causes of the decline include habitat destruction, drier and hotter climate because of climate change and insecticide use.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA TODAY,
6 Mar. 2025
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Control Asian psyllids; apply an insecticide labeled for citrus at each flush of growth.—
Tom MacCubbin,
Orlando Sentinel,
1 Mar. 2025
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Subsequent research found that the fungicide Azoxystrobin gave good results in killing the fungus, not just suppressing it.—
Neil Sperry,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Apr. 2025
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Then install the new sod and apply a turf fungicide.—
Tom MacCubbin,
Orlando Sentinel,
15 Feb. 2025
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According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, the cause of Bell’s Palsy is unknown but it can be triggered by high blood pressure, an infection, diabetes or toxins in one’s system.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
15 Apr. 2025
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Vultures also have extremely strong stomach acid, don’t get food poisoning and are able to consume and neutralize anthrax, botulism and other bacteria and toxins in carcasses that would kill other animals, removing deadly threats from the environment.—
Gerald Imray,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Apr. 2025
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So after Ware was schooled, all too often caught out of position against the outside-inside game that resulted in a toxic case of pick your poison for the affable big man, the next chore is going back to school.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Apr. 2025
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In a review of six cases of intentional pong pong seed ingestion reported to U.S. poison control centers, all were treated at a hospital, but only three survived.—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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In Colorado, the process to choose the five priority air toxics included consulting with multiple stakeholders.—
Jenni Shearston,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
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What these arguments fail to understand is that DEI protections were put in place for certain groups because of historically discriminatory hiring practices and to course-correct toxic, racist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic, and sexist workplaces.—
Kathleen Newman-Bremang,
refinery29.com,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Toxicant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toxicant. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.
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