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Many gases have toxic properties, which are often assessed using the LC 50 (median lethal concentration) measure. In the United States, many of these gases have been assigned an NFPA 704 health rating of 4 (may be fatal) or 3 (may cause serious or permanent injury), and/or exposure limits (TLV, TWA/PEL, STEL, or REL) determined by the ACGIH professional association.
This is the list of extremely hazardous substances defined in Section 302 of the U.S. Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (42 U.S.C. § 11002).The list can be found as an appendix to 40 CFR 355. [1]
1971 Iraq poison grain disaster; at least 650 people died after eating methylmercury-treated grain intended for seeding; Bandō Mitsugorō VIII (d. 1975), Japanese kabuki actor; ate four livers of fugu fish; Nine killed in Denver City, Texas due to an accidental release of hydrogen sulfide. [4] Jayanta Hazarika (d. 1977), Assamese singer and ...
A North Texas woman wrote a caution to residents in a Facebook group and said after pulling weeds in an alley behind her home, ... you can call Texas Poison Control at (800) 222-1222 to seek help. ...
The primary antidote to brodifacoum poisoning is immediate administration of vitamin K 1 (dosage for humans: initially slow intravenous injections of 10–25 mg repeated at 3–6 hours until normalisation of the prothrombin time; then 10 mg orally four times daily as a "maintenance dose"). It is an extremely effective antidote, provided the ...
The Smokehouse Creek Fire is largest in Texas since 2005. East Amarillo Complex was the deadliest, Bastrop County Complex the most destructive. These are largest, deadliest and most destructive ...
Portable generators, which emit carbon monoxide, are among the deadliest consumer products. Two decades after the government identified the danger, people are left vulnerable by a system that lets ...
2-amino-3-cyclopropylbutanoic acid and 2-amino-5-chloro-4-pentenoic acid [10] North America Amanita vittadinii. Amanita strobiliformis. Edible Agaricus species Amanita cothurnata: Booted amanita muscimol and ibotenic acid [11] North America Amanita echinocephala: European solitary amanita A. smithiana toxin [6] Europe, Western Asia and North Africa