Recent Examples on the WebSince toxicants can be found in both healthy and unhealthy foods, this research suggests that some foods can contain a mix of components that are both beneficial and harmful for sleep.—Erica Jansen, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024 The incidence of obesity, kidney disease, and prostate disease increased in each subsequent generation after the first toxicant exposure.—Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 2 Feb. 2024 Interestingly, our group has recently shown that toxicants in food or food packaging, like pesticides, mercury and phthalates – chemicals used to manufacture plastics – can affect sleep.—Erica Jansen, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024 Nicotine pouches are purportedly intended to help people stop smoking cigarettes, Irfan Rahman, PhD, who runs a lab that conducts research on toxicants at the University of Rochester Medicine, told Health.—Maggie O'Neill, Health, 28 Nov. 2023 Children are particularly at risk to exposure from toxicants like styrene, said Timothy Nurkiewicz, director of West Virginia University’s Toxicology Working Group and Inhalation Facilities.—USA TODAY, 11 June 2023 And despite abundant research, pharmaceutical controls—either contraceptives or poisons, what biologists call toxicants—are still a few years away.—Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023 What still isn’t known Our analysis of the CARB data on volatile toxicants does not paint a complete picture.—Robin Dodson, Fortune Well, 2 May 2023 Advocacy groups studying the effects of the New York law say the new labels have revealed commonly found ingredients in menstrual products that may contain carcinogens, reproductive toxicants, endocrine disruptors, and allergens.—Erica Zurek, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2023
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Word History
Etymology
Medieval Latin toxicant-, toxicans, present participle of toxicare to poison, from Latin toxicum
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