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    Toxicology is a discipline, overlapping with biology, chemistry, pharmacology, and medicine, that involves the study of the adverse effects of chemical substances on living organisms and the practice of diagnosing and treating exposures to toxins and toxicants. When I grow up I want to become a Toxicologist. I want to become a toxicologist because this field of work deals with chemistry, living organisms, plus they pay good money. In order for me to become a toxicologist, I have to have my bachelor degree in the natural science courses like chemistry, biology, or in forensic science. Math, Human medicine, or veterinary medicine can also be relevant to this field of work due the toxins and toxicants. A graduate degree program in toxicology…

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    Forensic Toxicology: Arsenic Poison Glenda Cabrera George Mason University Abstract This paper will focus forensic toxicology. Starting off with the meaning of the two words; followed by the father of toxicology. This paper will more specifically focus on the effects that arsenic poison has on the human body. Also how often time it is confused with just being a common illness like food poison. But the most important is how it is undetectable until it’s too late and the body is undergoing…

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    Aroclor 1242 Case

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    decade of FDA’s Total Diet Study, chemicals being analyzed included radionuclides, organophosphorus pesticides, N-methyl carbamate pesticides, amitrole, pentachlorophenol, arsenic, cadmium, and mercury. In 1970, it is clear that toxicity studies were not available to assess the potential risks associated with environmental levels and that studies had only just been initiated. To the contrary, even after NCR had stopped using Aroclor 1242 in CCP (April 1971), FDA and other regulatory agencies…

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    Skin Peeling: A Case Study

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    It has been reported that the use of phenol is the surgical procedure of skin peeling can produce cardiac arrhythmias although specifics of dose received were not determined and would be expected to be extremely high (Office of Environmental Health Hazzard Assessment, 2015). In 1985 a group of iron and steel foundry workers with multiple chemical and aerosol exposures were examined and found to have more respiratory systems in the phenol exposed group (Office of Environmental Health Hazzard…

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    Pesticides In Society

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    The use pesticides are widely used in our society today. People today use it to exterminate unwanted pests, such as rodents, insects and molds. There are initially three categories of pesticide substances: insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides—all of which specializes in the way it destroys certain pests. Insecticide fights against insects that “feed on crops, leaves, roots, and other parts of plants” (Naveen et al 125). This is the type of pesticide that may be used in most parks, gardens,…

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    used in many industries including mining and iron and steel production. Additionally, cyanide treats wastewater. According to Wu, F. et al. (2014), socio economics status would be a factor likely to increase exposure of foodborne toxicity because people with low-income consume only one or two foods. On the other hand, children under 18 years old are at high risk in toxicological effects of cyanide since they are immature and differ from adult (ATSDR, 2006). Cyanide compounds would be lethal…

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    Pb Contamination

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    Introduction Lead (Pb) contamination is a pervasive issue in many low-income neighborhoods throughout the United States. The toxicity of lead poses significant risks to human health, and proves to be especially harmful for children in terms of cognitive and physical development. Lead in the environment is primarily related to a legacy of anthropogenic sources including leaded gasoline, leaded paint, and various industrial applications. Although the presence of heavy metals is ubiquitous in the…

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    Is Lead Good Or Bad

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    Lead has been around for thousands of years, used with various products, and is a deadly element. Lead is found in all parts of Earth’s crust and has been used in products of various items in our homes, such as paint, pipes, batteries and even cosmetics (“Lead poisoning….” 2017). Humans have learned that lead is highly dangerous once inside our bodies, shutting down organs and beginning a wide collection of symptoms from lead poisoning. It is released into the environment through industrial…

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    The very fast death factor is a very potent weapon that has still not been addressed. We stand as the voice of the people and demand to add Anatoxin-a (C10H12NO) to the banned chemicals list. Anatoxin-a targets the nervous system thus making it virtually impossible to stop it since it targets the body in a matter of moments. One gram of this chemical can kill 350 people and unlike many other poisons this chemical works fast to kill. Even before the eventual death by respiratory paralysis that…

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    Acrylamide Lab Report

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    The Critical Noncarcinogenic effect of acrylamide is classified as “Degenerative Nerve Changes”. This means that chronic ingestion of acrylamide resulted in an observable damaging of the central and peripheral nervous system, thus classifying it as a neurotoxin. This conclusion was determined after the results of two separate chronic (2year) drinking water studies performed on lab rats. (Friedman et al., 1995, 224307; Johnson et 14 al., 1986, 061340). The doseresponse data for acrylamide was…

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