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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:
SawMichael Clayton*** out of 5
ReadMiddlesex**** out of 5
SawThe Lives of Others***** out of 5. Best movie I've seen in a long time.
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 on July 24, 2008 6:16 AM • 3 Comments •
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 on July 21, 2008 8:22 AM • 0 Comments •
So the FDA says that cloned meat is safe and this is making big news. Well, this isn't much of a surprise, it's unlikely that a clone would be unsafe (it's a clone of a naturally healthy animal!). What sucks...
Posted on January 16, 2008 7:33 AM • 6 Comments •
A reader asked me for some help choosing a water bottle because of concerns about antimony, bisphenol A, and phthalates (BPA is really the only risk worth thinking about in this trifecta). She read this NYTimes article about plastic bottles...
Posted on January 10, 2008 8:07 AM • 6 Comments •
A couple of weeks ago, as I'm sure you heard, the FDA held an advisory committee meeting that concluded that there should be no use of cough/cold products for children under 6. There is a good amount of evidence that...
Posted on November 7, 2007 7:20 AM • 10 Comments •
Or so says USA Today on the front page, paragraph two (regarding sausage, bacon and lunchmeat). Of course they are contradicted on paragraph 8 by someone who says that "you can still occasionally have a hot dog". The no safe...
Posted on November 1, 2007 9:42 AM • 12 Comments •
If you haven't seen it yet, USA Today is doing a series called "toxic legacy". First was lead, then mercury, and today, plastics. Well, really it's about BPA. We've dicussed BPA here before and I'm not going to rehash it....
Posted on October 31, 2007 11:35 AM • 7 Comments •
(Alternate title: jerks aren't always wrong). Over at Moms Speak Up, Cristina shares her angerat a doctor that doesn't want to go along with a "modified" vaccine schedule that she made up herself. Over at Enviroblog (which I usually like)...
Posted on October 30, 2007 2:45 PM • 11 Comments •
National Healthy Moms Health Babies Coalition issued a statement that women who are pregnant (or breastfeeding, or trying to get pregnant, or not trying but might be anyway, or dreaming about being pregnant, or know someone who's dreaming about...) should...
Posted on October 9, 2007 7:17 AM • 9 Comments •
That hed refers both to the fact that I promised to post on this last week and didn't as well as the fact that there have been way too few studies of Thimerosal given it's controversial status. you have probably...
Posted on October 4, 2007 7:39 AM • 3 Comments •
