contamination

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Despite this challenge, Clough and McNeil, working with graduate student Eduardo Ochoa Rivera and statistics professor Ambuj Tewari, developed methods to separate true microplastics from glove-related contamination.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

It said: "These products may contain mouse contamination making them unsafe to eat."

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

This research is the first to clearly show how forests become contaminated with microplastics and to directly connect that contamination to particles transported through the air.

From Science Daily • Mar. 23, 2026

Despite being a highly regulated part of the American food industry, infant formula is still too susceptible to contamination.

From Salon • Mar. 20, 2026

Probably no person is immune to contact with this spreading contamination unless he lives in the most isolated situation imaginable.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson