This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette.
鈥淭hree thousand six hundred food packaging chemicals detected in human bodies: How reheating food is killing us.鈥
I keep teasing my analytical chemist colleagues that they are responsible for the anxiety that so many people have about chemicals invading their lives. Hardly a day goes by without some report of...
I鈥檓 sitting here looking around my office for anything made of black plastic. The casing of my computer is in that category, so is my coffee machine, my printer, my cell phone stand, my stapler, a...
鈥淣ot everything that can be counted, counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.鈥 That quote is commonly attributed to Einstein although there is no evidence he ever said it. Even if he...
One of the questions I鈥檝e been asked recently with increasing frequency is how to avoid exposure to those 鈥渇orever chemicals鈥 that we are being warned about in numerous newspaper articles, books,...
Much ink has recently been spilled about our environment, and potentially our bodies, being contaminated by some of the estimated 60,000 chemicals being industrially produced today. That ink itself...
Many cosmetics come with promises to make us look 鈥渇orever young.鈥 But there are some suggestions that many contain 鈥渇orever鈥 chemicals that may actually interfere with our efforts to prevent aging...