Statistics developed by Toxics Targeting, a company in Ithaca, N.Y., that provides information on toxic spills to business and residential customers, showed that 108 Suffolk Authority public wells had readings of at least one-half part per billion of the additive in recent years, a finding the authority did not dispute.
Information on toxic effects includes data on acute, subchronic, and chronic toxicity, mutagenicity, teratogenicity, and carcinogenicity.
Allegations that Bashar al-Assad's forces used chemical weapons in recent attacks gained traction on Sunday when France said it had "information" of toxic gases being used against opposition targets.
Toxicologists realise that cell-based dynamic assays can acquire important additional information about toxic responses of individual cell within a treated population.
For this reason, the molecular biomarker Hsp70 should be combined with additional methods such as histopathology [47], biotransformation enzyme activity measurements [48, 49] etc. in order to provide reliable information on toxic effects in different organisms.
For the purposes of chemical safety assessment, the value of using non-animal (in silico and in vitro) approaches and generating mechanistic information on toxic effects is being increasingly recognised.
The chemical industry opposed a 1983 OSHA requirement that workers be given detailed information about toxic, cancer-causing chemicals they handle in the workplace.
Concerns about unsafe drugs led Congress to pass the 1962 Kefauver-Harris Act amendments to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act that required that drug makers include information on toxic and serious side effects in their advertising to doctors.
This study provides information on toxic doses and therapeutic indices (LD50) of drugs and xenobiotics [ 29].
This curation can be leveraged for information about toxic endpoints important to drug safety and help develop testable hypotheses for drug disease events.
