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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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Potential toxins: Research indicates that many protein supplements contain low to significant quantities of toxins, heavy metals, pesticides, and other chemicals linked to cancer and other health problems.—
Anna Giorgi,
Verywell Health,
21 Mar. 2025
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Others trace back to the widespread use of pesticides in crops that contained heavy metals, Mande said.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA TODAY,
15 Mar. 2025
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Monsanto is the maker of Roundup, a popular herbicide used by homeowners and farmers alike.—
Holly Yan,
CNN,
13 Mar. 2025
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Oz and Roizen also advocated for warning people about glyphosate, an herbicide used on crops like grains and corn, on labels of foods that might have been exposed to the chemical.—
Alice Park,
TIME,
13 Mar. 2025
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Racey said the contamination source could be insecticides, chemicals from fracking fluid or firefighting foam, but not the granulate fertilizer.—
Elizabeth Campbell,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Mar. 2025
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These techniques work better than insecticide sprays and leave no residual toxicity.—
Barbara Robertson,
The Mercury News,
17 Mar. 2025
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Nettle extract, made by composting nettle leaves and brewing them as a tea, has been used as an insecticide, fungicide, and miticide.—
Joshua Siskin,
Orange County Register,
14 Mar. 2025
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But those perfect plants don’t grow that way without assistance; they are sprayed routinely with fungicides and insecticides, especially organophosphates, which kill insects by interfering with their nervous systems.—
Maryn McKenna,
Scientific American,
13 Feb. 2025
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There are a number of ways to help work on this and manage our exposure to chemicals and toxins.—
Taylor Lane,
Flow Space,
26 Mar. 2025
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The animals may have been poisoned by ingesting fish contaminated by domoic acid, a toxin released by the common coastal phytoplankton Pseudo-nitzschia.—
Susanne Rust,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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As for entertainment, pick your poison: live music, board games, or something off its bookshelf.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
29 Mar. 2025
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In September 2024, the California legislature passed the Poison-Free Wildlife Act, which bans some rat poisons.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 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 6 Apr. 2025.
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