Newsweek

Toxic Chemicals in Everyday Products ‘Enter the Human Body’ via Touch

Toxic chemicals designed to prevent household objects from catching fire can be rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream via the skin. These flame-retardant chemicals, such as polybrominated diphenyl ...

‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body

Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’ ...
The Conversation

PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ can be absorbed through human skin, says research

Oddný Ragnarsdóttir receives funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 860665 (PERFORCE3 Innovative Training ...
CNN

Human brain samples contain an entire spoon’s worth of nanoplastics, study says

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall, cadaver ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Assessing Toxicologic Risks to Human Subjects Used in Controlled Exposure Studies of Environmental Pollutants

This report addresses scientific issues and provides guidance on the conduct of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) studies on Controlled Human Inhalation Exposure (CHIE). This report assesses ...
The Conversation

How to improve the monitoring of chemical contaminants in the human body

Chang He received funding from the AXA Research Fund. From pesticides in our food to hormone disruptors in our kitchen pans, modern life is saturated with chemicals, exposing us to unknown long-term ...