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Do GMO foods cause any health related risks?

20 Mar 2017

I don't believe they do but I keep hearing this from many of my friends and I would like to shut them up once and for all. If you have any studies or papers you could refer me to I would be ever so...

Genetic modification: a thorny issue

20 Mar 2017

The ancient Greeks did not have a good grasp of genetics.聽A giraffe, they thought, was a cross between a camel and a leopard, and an ostrich was the result when a camel mated with a sparrow.聽A...

Pesticides in Utero

20 Mar 2017

Can the decline in rational thinking that we seem to be experiencing these days be due to pesticide exposure while we were in the womb? That may not be as harebrained as it sounds.聽

Green Synthesis of Succinic Acid

20 Mar 2017

Go to any chemistry conference these days and you鈥檒l find multiple sessions on green chemistry. They won鈥檛 be talking about making green paints or growing plants. Actually that isn鈥檛 true. They may...

Nitrosamines

20 Mar 2017

I don鈥檛 think I would want to work in a rubber processing plant. Too many nitrosamines in the air, and it鈥檚 better not to inhale them. Nitrosamines after all are known carcinogens, first identified...

Ants in Our Homes

20 Mar 2017

There are various insecticides that will eliminate ants. Chlorpyrifos is probably the most effective and is available in a number of commercial versions containing 0.5% of the active ingredient. It...

Biodiesel Complications

20 Mar 2017

One thing you can count on in science is that virtually every issue is more complicated than it first seems. Take biodiesel as an example. It can be made from virtually any plant oil by reacting it...

Methyl Iodide In Strawberries

20 Mar 2017

Now it鈥檚 toxic strawberries from California! 鈥淲ill strawberry shortcake be known for causing cancer, birth defects and miscarriages,鈥 asks a widely circulating article on the web. Well, no. Not...

Benzene in your car - and it's not in the gas tank!

20 Mar 2017

Everyone knows that driving car is a risky business but what about just getting into one? Especially on a hot day! And we鈥檙e not talking about burning your rear by depositing it on the plastic seat...

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