All toxic chemicals articles
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Business
Second Daikin-America employee dies from chemical exposure
Chemical that killed two workers and hospitalised a third at a US fluorochemicals plant remains unidentified
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News
UK MPs criticise government inaction on harmful chemicals
A report calls for urgent changes to the way flame retardants and packaging additives are regulated
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News
Window of opportunity to deal with harmful chemicals closing, UN warns
Innovative solutions needed as report acknowledges governments and businesses won’t hit 2020 targets
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News
Chemical analysis supports EU’s toxic tattoo ink ban
Report finds 20% of tattoo inks contain ‘negative list’ chemicals, although little is known about long-term effects
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News
Harvard and Google team up to take on harmful construction chemicals
New centre is working with Google and others to reduce the use of chemicals linked to health and environmental problems
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Research
Tool to navigate chemical space aims to be ‘Google Maps of drugs’
Software allows links between 8000 drugs and 47,000 compounds of environmental concern to be explored in 3D
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News
UN’s non-toxic targets unlikely to be achieved
The United Nations’ goal of achieving a ‘poison-free environment’ by 2020 won’t be met, Sweden’s chemicals agency warns
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Review
Venom: killer and cure
Emma Stoye reviews a celebration of toxic critters large and small at London’s Natural History Museum
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News
Chemicals strategy to lay out UK government aspirations after Brexit
Twenty-five year environment plan short on details
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News
Database offers free access to previously secret chemical data
ToxicDocs allows users to retrieve millions of internal corporate and trade group pages on chemical toxicity
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Review
More molecules of murder
Aurora Walshe reviews a book that walks the line between morbid and fascinating
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Review
Toxic exposures: mustard gas and the health consequences of world war II in the United States
An insight into the murky world of chemical warfare
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News
BP research fund being put to good use in Gulf of Mexico
Nearly seven years after Deepwater Horizon, the independent research programme BP created is laying a good foundation for the future
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News
Five bioaccumulative and toxic chemicals fast-tracked under new US law
First test of powers of revamped Toxic Substances Control Act
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News
US urged to curb chemicals that harm brain development
NIH-backed coalition calls for immediate action to reduce developmental toxicant exposures
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Opinion
Why US chemical regulation reform is so welcome
The Toxic Substances Control Act is just the beginning