Environmental Contaminant Articles & Analysis
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Our systematic investigation of HindII restriction enzyme buffer optimization reveals several critical factors: (1) Overcoming Inhibitory Sample Contaminants Environmental and clinical samples often contain PCR inhibitors that similarly impact restriction digestion. For soil-derived DNA, humic acid contamination significantly inhibits HindII ...
Our systematic investigation of HindII restriction enzyme buffer optimization reveals several critical factors: (1) Overcoming Inhibitory Sample Contaminants Environmental and clinical samples often contain PCR inhibitors that similarly impact restriction digestion. For soil-derived DNA, humic acid contamination significantly inhibits HindII ...
The document emphasizes the importance of DTSC-SLs in evaluating chemical concentrations in environmental media at California sites. It highlights specific recommendations for several contaminants based on adopting the Toxicity Criteria for Human Health Risk Assessments Screening Levels and Remediation Goals rule. ...
Biomedical liquid waste originating from healthcare facilities, laboratories, and research centers often contains infectious materials that, when discharged without proper treatment, can contribute to the spread of communicable diseases through public sewers. These diseases can affect individuals coming into contact with contaminated water sources ...
It has thus been shown that environmental contaminants may be involved in the induction of myasthenia gravis via deregulation of pro-inflammatory Th17 lymphocytes via their AhR receptor. ...
As a result of the global SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, huge viral loads are present in the municipal wastewater of an infected population, and data support the notion that the virus is viable in the environment for prolonged periods under some conditions. This facilitates environmental contamination and potential transmission from direct exposure to untreated waste, ...
Below are several pitfalls to be aware of that might be thwarting your contamination control efforts if you are currently working with a piece of fill equipment that did not include QbD in the design phase. ...
The osprey (Pandion haliaetus) is a well‐known sentinel of environmental contamination, yet no studies have traced pharmaceuticals through the water‐fish‐osprey food web. ...
To expand that analysis we developed a survey that was completed by 535 environmental scientists from 57 different countries, of whom 49% identified environmental or analytical chemistry as their primary disciplinary background. ...
Exposure to certain environmental contaminants such as agricultural pesticides can alter normal endocrine and reproductive parameters in wild fish populations. Recent studies have found widespread pesticide contamination across the rivers that discharge into the Great Barrier Reef lagoon. ...
These data indicate that significant differences exist between the strains and that animal life history may have important impacts on the susceptibility of each strain to environmental contaminants. Environ Toxicol Chem © 2013 SETAC ...
Great concern has been raised over the potential impact of environmental contaminants on fish populations that inhabit in the Three Gorge Reservoir (TGR). ...
Since the initiation of the industrial age with its parallel reliance on the utilisation of the hydrocarbon reserves on earth, the biosphere has been increasingly exposed to an ever expanding chemical variety of anthropogenic origin. Phytoremediation is an environmental technology for the cleaning of polluted soils using plants that needs the knowledge about transport and fate of ...
Fish oils, however, are also susceptible to contamination with lipophilic organic chemicals. Many organochlorine chemicals are now ubiquitous contaminants of marine ecosystems. This paper reports analytical results for a selection of commercially available and industrial grade fish oil samples, compares the values with historical samples, and discusses their ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its final list of chemicals in the first group of substances that will be screened under the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP).1 Development of this list caps a long, thoughtful, and arduous administrative process that spans over a decade. ...
This study was conducted in a contained environment in order to develop biomarkers and to evaluate the environmental damage after a release of two different toxic substances which are widely used in industrial production. ...