The US EPA and the ACS Green Chemistry Institute ® have played a major role in promoting research and education in pollution prevention and the reduction of toxics over the past three decades.

How do complex mixtures of chemicals affect our health? New research has shown that chemicals that occur in complex mixtures and in concentration ratios as found in humans act together. Even if the ...

The U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) recently released two new Interaction Profiles for Toxic Chemical Mixtures, continuing a long-running federal effort to better ...

Students learn to identify various methods for separating mixtures to define density. Matter: Separation of Mixtures: Students learn to identify various methods for separating mixtures, to define ...

The real world is marked by multiple stressors, among them cocktails of chemicals. The review article presents methodological approaches to isolating, characterizing and tracking chemicals of concern ...

Studies of chemicals in our blood typically capture only a small and unknown fraction of the entire chemical universe. Now, a new approach aims to change that. In a study involving blood samples of ...

(Beyond Pesticides, April 10, 2024) Researchers in a 2024 Chemosphere study find synergistic relationships in certain chemical mixtures, particularly heptachlor and triallate and trifluralin and ...

Everything we can see and touch, and quite a lot that we can’t as well, is made of tiny particles called atoms. Some substances, like particles of this iron, contain only one kind of atom. Iron is an ...

Scientists have unwrapped long-sought details of embalming practices that ancient Egyptians used to preserve dead bodies. Clues came from analyses of chemical residue inside vessels from the only ...

Automated pipetting platforms for the preparation and measurement of plasma samples and chemical mixtures in high-throughput bioassays at the UFZ. "In our everyday lives, we are exposed to a wide ...