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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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Category: Consumer Tox
Cutting to chase for those of you who want a quick answer: we don't know, there aren't enough people to study yet. There are hints, though. Ezetimibe is commonly used in combination with a statin as Vytorin to reduce heart...
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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...
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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...
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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 • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Consumer Tox
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 by angrytoxicologist at 7:33 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Consumer Tox
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 by angrytoxicologist at 8:07 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Consumer Tox
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 by angrytoxicologist at 7:20 AM • 41 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Media
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...
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Category: Consumer Tox
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....
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Category: Consumer Tox
(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)...
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