According to Japan's Asahi Shimbun, cleanup crews working near the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, "dumped soil and leaves contaminated with radioactive fallout into rivers".
The Street Spice event in Newcastle upon Tyne in March 2013 resulted in more than 400 people reporting food poisoning, diarrhoea and vomiting as a result of raw curry leaves contaminated in Pakistan.
These were designed to include simulated conditions experienced by real forensic samples and consisted of grass leaves, stored dry inside paper envelopes at room temperature, desiccated grass leaves contaminated with fungal growth, and also stains made from grass leaves on cotton cloth to simulate grass marks that might be found on clothing.
Energy companies have been allowed to run roughshod over communities, leaving contaminated drinking water, dirty air, gutted property values, and greater earthquake risk in their wake.
The baculoviridae family infects many different insects, and, in the case of moths and caterpillars, is usually acquired by eating leaves contaminated with the infectious particles.
The water debt, left unpaid, "will contaminate his other problems" with the United States, including an impasse over immigration and economic development issues, Mr. Aguayo said.
That leaves them contaminated with both the oil and the organic compounds later used to clean them, making it especially difficult for scientists who want to study what organic material they might contain.
Leaving marginally contaminated items outdoors for a month or more during warm weather may dissipate the Hg.
Also, the present methods used to wash and sanitize leafy greens inevitably result in cross-contamination should a few leaves be contaminated initially.
