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Heat also fuels toxic algae blooms containing domoic acid, which contaminate the anchovy and sardine populations.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

Paiva also hopes to examine whether materials besides methane, including compounds released from spacecraft components such as paint and rubber, could contaminate scientifically important lunar sites.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

The farm screens each batch for four types of bacteria: salmonella, E. coli, campylobacter and listeria, all of which thrive in the intestines of cattle and can contaminate milk through microscopic flecks of infected feces.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

The seemingly limitless proliferation of cases in which lawyers have been caught letting fictitious AI-generated legal citations contaminate their briefs continues to amaze.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

“That’s important. Because if you contaminate them with anything, you can’t really use them anymore. And you don’t want HeLa cells to contaminate other cultures in a lab.”

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

Cyclospora is a parasite that contaminates leafy greens, berries and herbs.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

“If a worker contaminates lettuce, that lettuce will likely be eaten before it becomes infectious,” Todd said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Like when I would talk to people, they would raise concerns about how the demolition contaminates the ground around them.

From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2026

Water shortages are not new, but many countries, especially in the global south, are experiencing climate change-related intense drought and flooding that contaminates water sources.

From BBC ● May 27, 2024

If the least portion of hypo. contaminates your silver solutions, they are useless; to reduce it to its metallic state again is the only remedy.

From Notes and Queries, Number 233, April 15, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various

On Aug. 4, the Food and Drug Administration revealed that a salmonella outbreak traced back to contaminated jalapeños imported from Mexico had left hundreds of Americans sick.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Eating food contaminated with salmonella usually leads to illness within 12 to 72 hours, external.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

The findings, published in Nature Communications, could contribute to future research into using bacteria to help clean up environments contaminated with uranium.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

Michigan health officials now believe that most people got sick in late June or early July, and that the contaminated lettuce is no longer available.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

In the controversy that followed seizure of contaminated cranberries by the Food and Drug Administration, the fact that the chemical actually is cancer producing was widely challenged, even by many medical men.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Researchers found that methane released in spacecraft exhaust may spread across the moon surprisingly quickly, potentially contaminating regions that could preserve ancient chemical clues about how life first emerged on Earth.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

Investigators eventually suspected that the bacteria were airborne and had infected people after contaminating the air conditioning system at the convention hotel.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

It follows concerns that the poisons are killing songbirds, which like to line their nests with dog and cat hair, as well as contaminating rivers and coastal waters and killing aquatic life.

From BBC ● May 3, 2026

The disaster unleashed toxic sludge into the Kafue River, contaminating land and leaving residents without clean water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

The secret he revealed shook the very foundations of the Pythagorean doctrine, but by considering the irrational an anomaly, the Pythagoreans could keep the irrationals from contaminating their view of the universe.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife