Chemicals & Chemistry

It is difficult to blame Americans for being unable to determine what constitutes a real risk and a theoretical one. Or serious risk from a trivial one.

Microbiologists and toxicologists are quite familiar with the Ames test. It is literally textbook science that is taught to students all over the world.

Now and then I write about some of the atrocities that I used to work with (or avoid) (See Butyllithium — Something You Really Don't Want To Me

If any of you are still alive out there here's another scare for you to not worry about.  Only, it's the same tired scare that you've seen hundreds of times - chemicals in food containers, and it's just as wrong now as it was 25 years ag

Unlike human skin or electronic gadgets, aging makes red wine better. The reasons are complex, but they all boil down to chemistry.

While the amount of plastic waste floating around our oceans has been debated, whatever the real number is, it's very large.

Let's hear what some "experts" in biochemistry and toxicology have to say about formaldehyde:

Algae blooms in Florida have been in the paper for quite a while, my colleague Dr. Bloom has written on their toxic chemicals.

Like a broken clock that accidentally gets the time right, the State of California has finally stumbled upon the correct approach to coffee. Sort of.

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