#toxins — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #toxins, aggregated by home.social.
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“There were elders who started to get sores in their mouths because of the pesticides. We use our mouths to help in basket weaving,” Young says.
“And then if you’re cooking in these baskets and the material has been sprayed, then people can be ingesting it.”
#Forest #Nature #Climate #Environment #Pollution #Pesticides #Herbicides #Toxins #IndigenousRights #NativeAmericans #NaturalResources
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18-Sep-2025
New light on toxicity of Bluefin tunaResearchers have unveiled how Atlantic Bluefin #tuna transforms the toxic form of #mercury into less harmful forms. Their study shows that the tuna’s edible muscle contains not only toxic #methylmercury, but also mercury bound in stable, non-toxic compounds.
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"An antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning could come from bacteria.
Mice treated with a tweaked version of a bacterial protein rapidly cleared carbon monoxide from their blood, safely eliminating it through urine, researchers report in the Aug. 12 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/carbon-monoxide-antidote-bacteria
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Imported pests and broad-spectrum pesticide regulation
"A “wildly toxic” chemical used to combat fire ants and the varroa mite in Australia is banned in Europe and harmful to humans – and it is poisoning waterways and killing native fauna, experts warn."
"Australia is “a basket case” in that the chemical regulator answers to the department of agriculture, rather than to the department of health, as in Japan, the US and Europe, said Landos."
"NSW MP Emma Hurst of the Animal Justice party said: “It is time for Australia to catch up to the rest of the world and ban fipronil.”"
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/16/fipronil-fire-ant-poison-toxic-senate-inquiry-bans
#pests #pesticide #regulation #fipronil #OneHealth #APVMA #neonicotinoids #floodplains #toxins #ecosystem #pollution #wildlife #biosecurity #trade