toxicant

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Skinner and his colleagues also conducted epigenetic analysis of each generation of the animals, finding that the toxicant exposures shifted their entire epigenetics dramatically.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2024

The study provides evidence that multiple toxicant exposures of past human generations likely had a compounded impact on grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2024

More than 200 parents, teachers and students filed a series of lawsuits against Monsanto, the chemical manufacturer of PCBs, for exposure to the toxicant at Sky Valley.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2022

The birds were the unintended victims of a field experiment to test a toxicant — one intended for feral pigs, but no other animals — that had been developed in Australia.

From Salon • May 23, 2021

The state of California classifies it as a reproductive and developmental toxicant in humans.

From Scientific American • May 12, 2015