toxicant

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Yet, data remain sparse on how specific elements are distributed within an animal's body, especially for many rarely encountered species, and how toxicant levels relate to its sex, breed, age and other demographic factors.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2024

The study provides evidence that multiple toxicant exposures of past human generations likely had a compounded impact on grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2024

The latest PCB testing on campus, carried out in August by a district contractor, showed negligible levels of the toxicant on campus, according to school district records.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2022

“They may not have been a toxicant at low levels,” Rue says, but “we could be crossing a threshold.”

From Scientific American • Nov. 4, 2021

The birds were the unintended victims of a field experiment to test a toxicant — one intended for feral pigs, but no other animals — that had been developed in Australia.

From Salon • May 23, 2021