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  1. Bisphenol A (BPA), a ubiquitous chemical in plastics, impairs male reproductive function through oxidative stress, but paraprobiotics like heat-treated Enterococcus faecalis (FK-23) can successfully counteract this damage and restore sperm motility.
    #ReproductiveBiology #Toxicology #Microbiology #Medicine #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/05/bio05152601

  2. A critique of the linear non-threshold model used by the U.S. EPA to assess cancer risk:

    acsh.org/news/2026/04/28/asses

    As noted in the article, this is a politically contentious topic. The author has had a long career in both the public and private sector, and does not appear to have a political agenda.

    #Toxicology #RiskAssessment #Cancer #Environment #EnvironmentalToxicology #USEPA

  3. 🐧 Breaking news: #Penguins in Patagonia decide to ditch fish for a career in #toxicology, apparently detecting #PFAS chemicals by waddling around dramatically. 🤦‍♂️ Meanwhile, the article itself is so exclusive that it's hiding behind a 403 Forbidden error—as if anyone was dying to read about birds with lab coats. 🧪
    ucdavis.edu/health/news/pengui #403Forbidden #BreakingNews #HackerNews #ngated

  4. Very high maternal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) during pregnancy is strongly correlated with a significantly increased risk of asthma in children.
    #Epidemiology #Environmental #Pediatrics #Toxicology #PFAS #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/04/epid0409260

  5. Are red currants safe for dogs? Someone wants to put such a plant in my backyard as part of a study on hummingbirds.

    A quick web search finds several sites claiming they're highly toxic and several claiming they're perfectly safe. Which ones are slop? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    Dammit, Jim, I'm a computer scientist, not a veterinarian!

    #DogsOfMastodon #toxicology #gardening #slopocalypse

  6. Cell Painting is a scalable, image-based cellular profiling method that utilizes fluorescent dyes and artificial intelligence to measure thousands of molecular and structural changes in human cells following chemical exposure.
    #Toxicology #Pharmacology #CellBiology #ComputationalBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/03/phar0331260

  7. Inhaling common disinfectant chemicals known as quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs) is profoundly more toxic than oral ingestion, causing severe lung injury at exposure levels frequently found in humans.
    #Environmental #Toxicology #Biochemistry #Pharmacology #PublicHealth #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/03/env03302601

  8. CW: Bad news: pesticides. But an very good approach to calculate ecological toxicity

    RE: eupolicy.social/@Akshay/116192

    "To determine global pesticide risk, the study researchers looked at data on pesticide use from 2013 to 2019 in 65 nations that collectively represent nearly 80% of global crop acreage. They then combined these statistics with data on the toxicity of 625 pesticides for eight different species groups, including aquatic invertebrates and plants, fish, pollinating insects, soil organisms, and terrestrial arthropods, plants and vertebrates."

    This TAT [total applied toxicity] is a very good approach to measure ecotoxicity. This is very important since the often used "tons of pesticides applied" is quite useless when we are talking about substances with highly varying toxicity. 👌

    Of many pesticides, we do not really know the toxicity, or there is a lack of scientific consensus because the agrochemical corporations play dirty and have an army of paid pseudo-scientists. Additionally, toxicological studies focus mainly on acute toxicity on humans and not on long-term adverse health effects or the effects of combinations of different pollutants. And the toxicity for ecosystem functions is seldom even considered.
    May this TAT help us to not underestimate toxicity so much.

    @mongabay 🌱
    @Akshay :ecoanarchism_heart:
    #Toxicology #Ecotoxicology #Microbiology #Agriculture #AgriBusiness #Bayer #Monsanto #Pioneer #Syngenta #Pesticides #SoilBiology #Glyphosate

  9. CW: Bad news: pesticides. But an very good approach to calculate ecological toxicity

    RE: eupolicy.social/@Akshay/116192

    "To determine global pesticide risk, the study researchers looked at data on pesticide use from 2013 to 2019 in 65 nations that collectively represent nearly 80% of global crop acreage. They then combined these statistics with data on the toxicity of 625 pesticides for eight different species groups, including aquatic invertebrates and plants, fish, pollinating insects, soil organisms, and terrestrial arthropods, plants and vertebrates."

    This TAT [total applied toxicity] is a very good approach to measure ecotoxicity. This is very important since the often used "tons of pesticides applied" is quite useless when we are talking about substances with highly varying toxicity. 👌

    Of many pesticides, we do not really know the toxicity, or there is a lack of scientific consensus because the agrochemical corporations play dirty and have an army of paid pseudo-scientists. Additionally, toxicological studies focus mainly on acute toxicity on humans and not on long-term adverse health effects or the effects of combinations of different pollutants. And the toxicity for ecosystem functions is seldom even considered.
    May this TAT help us to not underestimate toxicity so much.

    @mongabay 🌱
    @Akshay :ecoanarchism_heart:
    #Toxicology #Ecotoxicology #Microbiology #Agriculture #AgriBusiness #Bayer #Monsanto #Pioneer #Syngenta #Pesticides #SoilBiology #Glyphosate

  10. CW: Bad news: pesticides. But an very good approach to calculate ecological toxicity

    RE: eupolicy.social/@Akshay/116192

    "To determine global pesticide risk, the study researchers looked at data on pesticide use from 2013 to 2019 in 65 nations that collectively represent nearly 80% of global crop acreage. They then combined these statistics with data on the toxicity of 625 pesticides for eight different species groups, including aquatic invertebrates and plants, fish, pollinating insects, soil organisms, and terrestrial arthropods, plants and vertebrates."

    This TAT [total applied toxicity] is a very good approach to measure ecotoxicity. This is very important since the often used "tons of pesticides applied" is quite useless when we are talking about substances with highly varying toxicity. 👌

    Of many pesticides, we do not really know the toxicity, or there is a lack of scientific consensus because the agrochemical corporations play dirty and have an army of paid pseudo-scientists. Additionally, toxicological studies focus mainly on acute toxicity on humans and not on long-term adverse health effects or the effects of combinations of different pollutants. And the toxicity for ecosystem functions is seldom even considered.
    May this TAT help us to not underestimate toxicity so much.

    @mongabay 🌱
    @Akshay :ecoanarchism_heart:
    #Toxicology #Ecotoxicology #Microbiology #Agriculture #AgriBusiness #Bayer #Monsanto #Pioneer #Syngenta #Pesticides #SoilBiology #Glyphosate

  11. CW: Bad news: pesticides. But an very good approach to calculate ecological toxicity

    RE: eupolicy.social/@Akshay/116192

    "To determine global pesticide risk, the study researchers looked at data on pesticide use from 2013 to 2019 in 65 nations that collectively represent nearly 80% of global crop acreage. They then combined these statistics with data on the toxicity of 625 pesticides for eight different species groups, including aquatic invertebrates and plants, fish, pollinating insects, soil organisms, and terrestrial arthropods, plants and vertebrates."

    This TAT [total applied toxicity] is a very good approach to measure ecotoxicity. This is very important since the often used "tons of pesticides applied" is quite useless when we are talking about substances with highly varying toxicity. 👌

    Of many pesticides, we do not really know the toxicity, or there is a lack of scientific consensus because the agrochemical corporations play dirty and have an army of paid pseudo-scientists. Additionally, toxicological studies focus mainly on acute toxicity on humans and not on long-term adverse health effects or the effects of combinations of different pollutants. And the toxicity for ecosystem functions is seldom even considered.
    May this TAT help us to not underestimate toxicity so much.

    @mongabay 🌱
    @Akshay :ecoanarchism_heart:
    #Toxicology #Ecotoxicology #Microbiology #Agriculture #AgriBusiness #Bayer #Monsanto #Pioneer #Syngenta #Pesticides #SoilBiology #Glyphosate

  12. CW: Bad news: pesticides. But an very good approach to calculate ecological toxicity

    RE: eupolicy.social/@Akshay/116192

    "To determine global pesticide risk, the study researchers looked at data on pesticide use from 2013 to 2019 in 65 nations that collectively represent nearly 80% of global crop acreage. They then combined these statistics with data on the toxicity of 625 pesticides for eight different species groups, including aquatic invertebrates and plants, fish, pollinating insects, soil organisms, and terrestrial arthropods, plants and vertebrates."

    This TAT [total applied toxicity] is a very good approach to measure ecotoxicity. This is very important since the often used "tons of pesticides applied" is quite useless when we are talking about substances with highly varying toxicity. 👌

    Of many pesticides, we do not really know the toxicity, or there is a lack of scientific consensus because the agrochemical corporations play dirty and have an army of paid pseudo-scientists. Additionally, toxicological studies focus mainly on acute toxicity on humans and not on long-term adverse health effects or the effects of combinations of different pollutants. And the toxicity for ecosystem functions is seldom even considered.
    May this TAT help us to not underestimate toxicity so much.

    @mongabay 🌱
    @Akshay :ecoanarchism_heart:
    #Toxicology #Ecotoxicology #Microbiology #Agriculture #AgriBusiness #Bayer #Monsanto #Pioneer #Syngenta #Pesticides #SoilBiology #Glyphosate

  13. A horror story of greed, corporate deception and corruption, as well as failure of governments to hold the company to account for the toxins.

    propublica.org/article/3m-fore

  14. @mastodonmigration
    A public health priority. Feels just like Putin’s Ruzzia - using war-banned munitions on civilian populations including children. ☹️

    #PublicHealth #priority #toxicology #chemicalWarfare #USPol #ICE

    @alissaazar

  15. @mastodonmigration
    A public health priority. Feels just like Putin’s Ruzzia - using war-banned munitions on civilian populations including children. ☹️

    #PublicHealth #priority #toxicology #chemicalWarfare #USPol #ICE

    @alissaazar

  16. @mastodonmigration
    A public health priority. Feels just like Putin’s Ruzzia - using war-banned munitions on civilian populations including children. ☹️

    #PublicHealth #priority #toxicology #chemicalWarfare #USPol #ICE

    @alissaazar

  17. @mastodonmigration
    A public health priority. Feels just like Putin’s Ruzzia - using war-banned munitions on civilian populations including children. ☹️

    #PublicHealth #priority #toxicology #chemicalWarfare #USPol #ICE

    @alissaazar

  18. @mastodonmigration
    A public health priority. Feels just like Putin’s Ruzzia - using war-banned munitions on civilian populations including children. ☹️

    #PublicHealth #priority #toxicology #chemicalWarfare #USPol #ICE

    @alissaazar

  19. Hey #emergencymedicine #toxicology peeps! Anyone in PDX interested in a fun experiment being run right now might consider doing a study of heavy metal levels in the blood of people gassed by ICE during recent and upcoming marches. We know many gas grenades have heavy metals in them, so there may be a publishable public health concern here. Just a thought after recent events…

  20. You know all of those recent results showing glyphosate / RoundUp are dangerous?

    And how some apologists retort "yeah well we have decades of data not showing harm"?

    Turns out that old data that purportedly demonstrates safety was falsified!!!

    social.wildeboer.net/@jwildebo

    #pesticides #glyphosate #retraction #retractionWatch #herbicide #gardening #Garden #toxicology

  21. What Do You Know About Acetaminophen?

    Despite its long history of use and over-the-counter availability, ongoing research continu…
    #NewsBeep #News #Medication #AU #Australia #child #childhood #Children #febrileresponse #fever #Health #hypertension #kids #myocardialinfarction;myocardialinfarction(MI) #nonsteroidalanti-inflammatoryagents #nonsteroidalanti-inflammatorydrugs #nsaid #NSAIDs #painmanagement #pediatrics #pyrexia #toxicology;toxicity;poisoning;toxins
    newsbeep.com/au/241024/