Author: Poison Sense

Environmental toxicants comprise a wide range of chemical or physical agents released into the environment (water, land, and air), and thereby produce adverse health effects in animals, plants, and microbes.  …

Carbamates are a class of insecticides structurally different, but mechanistically similar to organophosphates (OPs) insecticides. Common agents resulting in toxic exposure are aldicarb, propoxur, carbofuran, carbaryl (Sevin dudu dust™), ethinenocarb, …

The CDC defines poison as any substance that is harmful to your body when ingested, inhaled, injected, or absorbed through the skin. Acute poisoning in children is a major preventable …