AngryToxicologist is a scientist in the public health sector, knows plenty about toxicology, and is occasionally angry about it all. Drop me a line at tox@angrytoxicologist.com.
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What I'm reading, watching, and rating:
Saw
ReadMiddlesex**** out of 5
SawThe Lives of Others***** out of 5. Best movie I've seen in a long time.
July 31, 2008
Category: Regulations
Let's just put it in a hole CO2 sequestration has been going forward but only approved as research class wells. The EPA is proposing regulations on how to do it full scale and correctly. This is necessary because the CO2...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 10:01 AM • 0 Comments •
July 30, 2008
Category: Toxics
Oops! In case you didn't know, the Boulder, CO site of the National Institute of Sandards and Technology (NIST) had an accidental spill of plutonium-239 on June 9 and the initial actions taken would have an industrial hygenist pulling her...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 8:14 AM • 4 Comments •
July 28, 2008
Category: Consumer Tox
Every party needs a pooper, that's why Scienceblogs invited me. Enemy? Really? Yes, it can be. Read on; It doesn't have to be. A commentary in Nature Nanotechnology discusses the European Environment Agency report, Late Lessons from Early Warnings. The...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 9:06 AM • 10 Comments •
July 25, 2008
Category: Non-Science Fridays
How to lose respect and relevance in three easy (dance) steps Can this really be happening? Congress in public group therapy with Richard 'cartoon of myself' Simmons? Crawl back into your protective bubble and weep my friends, becasue it really...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 1:21 PM • 2 Comments •
July 24, 2008
Category: Consumer Tox
A couple of readers have asked bout the NYTimes article about sunscreens so I thought I'd weigh in. 80 lbs. Okay, with the lame humor over, let's get to the particulars. The most common question has been 1) What do...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 6:16 AM • 8 Comments •
July 23, 2008
Category: Regulations
As the Buch administration winds down, let's all brace ourselves for a rush of really bad ideas. For now we have: Let's make it even harder to set worker safety standards. Let's see...they've done instigated none in 8 years, it...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 8:59 AM • 0 Comments •
July 22, 2008
Category: Regulations
EHP has a small report on EPA's troubled ozone standard that's worth a look, especially if you don't know much about the issue. What strikes me is how there is such resistance from regulators to setting a decent standard because...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 8:52 AM • 2 Comments •
July 21, 2008
Category: Consumer Tox
The Woodrow Wilson Center released a report on engineered nanomaterials used for food applications. The aren't common (we think), but there are a few technologies that are making their way to the market. One for instance would have a nanofilm...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 8:22 AM • 1 Comments •
July 3, 2008
Category: Media
The Good Analysts from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that the FEMA trailers had too much formaldehyde (well, yeah) but also that it was due to cheap materials, sloppy design, and drumroll please, lax or non-existing government standards. It's...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 9:18 AM • 3 Comments •
July 2, 2008
Category: Animal Testing
ICCVAM authorized two different methods, the bovine corneal opacity and permeability (BCOP) assay and the isolated chicken eye (ICE) assay. These don't use live animals. I'm not exactly sure you could say that this wasn't tested in an animal, but...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
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