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Interested consumers’ awareness of harmful chemicals in everyday products [PDF]
Background Everyday products can contain a multitude of harmful substances unnoticed by most consumers, because established risk communication channels reach only part of the society.
Sabrina Hartmann, Ursula Klaschka
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Harmful chemicals emitted from electronic cigarettes and potential deleterious effects in the oral cavity [PDF]
Use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), such as electronic cigarettes (e-cigs), is increasing across the US population and is particularly troubling due to their adoption by adolescents, teens, and young adults.
Jeffrey Ebersole +11 more
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Self-inflicted ingestion of harmful chemicals in adolescents and adults: risk factors and characteristics [PDF]
Background Injury due to ingestion of harmful chemicals has become an area of concern globally. In South Africa, paraffin has been widely implicated in multiple health outcomes, including severe ingestion injuries. A specific category of such injuries is
Rajen Govender +3 more
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Endocrine disrupting chemicals: harmful substances and how to test them [PDF]
This paper presents an analysis of the opinions of different groups from: scientists, international regulatory bodies, non-governmental organizations and industry; with an interest in the problem of identifying chemical substances with endocrine ...
Olea-Serrano Nicolás +3 more
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Harmful Chemicals in the Environment 2016 [PDF]
Jian Lu +4 more
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Can probiotics win the battle against environmental endocrine disruptors? [PDF]
Compounds that have negative effects on the endocrine system are called endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs). There are several different types of compounds, with several different usage areas in the environment, which can be classified as EDCs.
Sevim Çiğdem, Kara Mehtap
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Safety Concern and Regulatory Status of Chemicals Used in Cosmetics and Personal Care Products
Cosmetics and personal care products (PCPs) are a few of the most commonly used products across the globe with a whopping market share of approximately USD 500 billion.
Manthan Kaushik +5 more
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Aim of the study was to assess the risk of bronchopulmonary pathology in workers of the production of synthetic polyacrylonitrile fiber as a result of exposure to harmful chemicals and smoking tobacco products. Material and methods.
S. V. Raikova +4 more
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(Micro)Plastics Are Toxic Pollutants
Plastics, including microplastics, have generally been regarded as harmful to organisms because of their physical characteristics. There has recently been a call to understand and regard them as persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic.
Judith S. Weis, Juan José Alava
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CONTACT WITH HARMFUL CHEMICALS AND CANCER
Problems such as changes in people's lifestyles and standards and environmental pollution have seriously affected human health. It is known that many substances that people eat, drink, use in daily life and are exposed to are harmful to human health. At the beginning of these substances are the substances called “chemicals”.
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