#toxicological

[worldfoodsafetyday]

General standard for food additives.

This General standard for food additives sets forth the conditions under which food additives may be used in all foods, whether or not they have previously been standardized by Code.

a) Food additive means any substance not normally consumed as a food by itself and not normally used as a typical ingredient of the food, whether or not it has nutritive value, the intentional addition of which to food for a technological (including organoleptic) purpose in the manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packing, packaging, transport or holding of such food results, or may be reasonably expected to result (directly or indirectly), in it or its by-products becoming a component of or otherwise affecting the characteristics of such foods. The term does not include contaminants or substances added to food for maintaining or improving nutritional qualities.

b) Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) is an estimate by JECFA of the amount of a food additive, expressed on a body weight basis that can be ingested daily over a lifetime without appreciable health risk. c) Acceptable Daily Intake "Not Specified" (NS) is a term applicable to a food substance of very low toxicity for which, on the basis of the available data (chemical, biochemical, toxicological, and other), the total dietary intake of the substance, arising from its use at the levels necessary to achieve the desired effect and from its acceptable background levels in food, does not, in the opinion of JECFA, represent a hazard to health. For the above reason, and for reasons stated in individual JECFA evaluations, establishment of an acceptable daily intake expressed in numerical form is not deemed necessary by JECFA. An additive meeting the above criterion must be used within the bounds of good manufacturing practice as defined. d) Maximum Use Level of an additive is the highest concentration of the additive determined to be functionally effective in a food or food category and agreed to be safe by the Codex Alimentarius Commission. It is generally expressed as mg additive/kg of food. The maximum use level will not usually correspond to the optimum, recommended, or typical level of use. Under GMP, the optimum, recommended, or typical use level will differ for each application of an additive and is dependent on the intended technical effect and the specific food in which the additive would be used, taking into account the type of raw material, food processing and post-manufacture storage, transport and handling by distributors, retailers, and consumers.

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[xx0fuck3drott1ngthr04t0xx]

if i was hank walkin in on that, id start shortcircuiting too

[maximum-ponies]

Finally got around to drawing one of the ponies I've made on ponytown! This is a fairly recent one. As you can see her name is Poison Petal, and she's a toxicologist :)

She currently lives in ponyville and is dedicated to researching antidotes for all the venoms and poisons found in the Everfree forest

[liliumofthevalleyy]

LOUIS GODDAMN MORIARTY TRIED TO POISON SHERLOCK WITH CHOCOLATES ON VALENTINES DAY. I CAN NOT.

[motivatemycollegelife]

Toxicology is toxic ☠️

[banefolk]

A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons by Frederick Accum, 1820.

This book was written by a famous English chemist and was an immediate success when it was first published and was into its fourth edition in only two years… but food adulteration statistics didn’t go down and Accum started to panic that instead of preventing it, he’d taught even more people how to do it, and he started vandalizing his own book in libraries and was forced to leave the country in disgrace.

Source: Christie’s Auction House

[mask-of-anubis]

House of Anubis: Teaching kids about police corruption and British imperialistic theft since 2011

[o2studies]

Calling all science students and enthusiasts!!

I would absolutely love to have a science-revolving passion project and I’ve narrowed it down to a blog/blog-type-website. I love learning about science but so rarely take the time to actually research the things that interest me. With being a high school student, exams and life this is quite a big task to handle for 1 person and I’d love others to contribute to this!

This is by no means a set plan yet, I’m just sharing a rough idea, so if you could please interact with this post or dm me if you would be interested in something of this kind. Even if you see this 5 months after this was posted (and hopefully a working project or at least WIP) still reach out if you’re interested.

You don’t have to be a great writer for this either nor fascinated about each and every science. My favourite is chemistry, but it would be nice if this project could incorporate the 3 main branches of science: biology, chemistry and physics. It depends on if people would be interested in reading something like this or participating in, and their preferred subjects. You could write about astronomy as a whole, or go into chemistry and analysing electronic configuration, talking about your favourite dinosaur bones in palaeontology, a passive behaviour analysis in psychology, or explaining how exactly scabs work in biology. These would probably be short to mid-length entries and 1/2 times a month.

But this is just my idea and how far I’ve gone with it, feedback is appreciated, there will be more updates to come (not too many until afer my exams in May tho), and I appreciate any reblogs to share this idea with others!

Hopefully a couple people would like to help out in this project and please ask questions if you have any (as a dm or ask) ^^

[milktea-franther]

literally just found out atroquinine isn't a real poison. after self-studying toxicology for three days.

all because i found atroquinine interesting. then i searched it after a while and found out IT'S NOT REAL.

i plucked the fruit of the forbidden tree, tempted by the serpent with its atroquinine-laced fangs, and paid the price.

[doodlehorseafternoon]

Having a working knowledge of a lot of poisons/toxins is both interesting and ruins the fantasy/cool element of so many books and movies. We learn a lot of them in vet med because we have to identify and treat them in our animals, so when they start talking about poisons and antidotes...

No, there is not an antidote for every poison. There's really not a specific antidote for most poisons we deal with

The side effects they depict for the named poison/drug often belong to another one, they just picked one for dramatic effect

I am banned by friends from ruining the movie magic with my pesky facts

Bonus: the anime Apothecary Diaries is actually very spot on with its drugs and poisons it talks about! That one has been fun to watch with my background

[dansnotavampire]

reblog for sample size and also a cookie

[thegreatyin]

alright. now we've got some leftover rat coins to spend.

[iamthepulta]

Going down the rabbit hole of mercury poisoning and archaeological toxicology in South America has me losing my mind. I'm overwhelmed and out of my league but it feels like all the pieces are fitting into place and they're all bad and I can't stop now.

[peliginspeaks]

Sick in bed so I am thinking about Hallowrove and her relationship to poisons, as one does. Specifically what going through BaL did to it, turning a curiosity and a bit of rashness into something more like a nervous compulsion to keep ahead of a possible threat that quickly faded into improbability.

(mild TW for unhealthy habits/self harming behaviours)

Hallowrove is not, as a rule, a paranoid or preparatory sort of person. For most situations, monster hunting or otherwise, their strategy is more reacting quickly to threats and thinking creatively in the moment, rather than preparing for possibilities before they happen. Poison, however, is not a thing you can just react to. You can't fight it like a combatant. You can't run from it like a rockfall. You can't outwit it like a monster. You can only endure, and wait. Perhaps you'll die. Perhaps you won't. The outcome was decided from the minute it poured into your veins.

So, of course Hallowrove hates that. Of course when the nuns of Hunter's Keep came after him with poison, when he realized that everything he touched and ate and drank was fair game and he might never get the chance to react, what once was a passing curiosity and an occasional game between him and Scaleflats at parties turned into dosing himself regularly, to build enough tolerance to push the inevitable into being less so. Being slightly ill and slightly weakened - even then in the thick of it - was preferable to having no tolerance and ending at the mercy of a hit he couldn't dodge, so it became almost comforting, downing the latest concoction and knowing that no matter how much pain it put him through it would still be slightly less than the time before. It felt like having a cushion to the fall, for a person whose life was strung on the high wire between the horror that hunted him and the horror that was trying to train him to defeat it. It felt like an extra card kept up his sleeve, a way to react instead of feel the fear.

And then the nuns were gone. The Vake was dead. No more reason for the poison, right? She could go back to curiosity, back to tiny swigs of unknown things just to see what they do, back to batting back and forth false slights with a friend...except for maybe whoever the Masters might hire to silence her about the victory. That could still happen. And there was always the monsters, with the venoms they carried, and those weren't the same as the poison she drank but it had to help a little bit, surely? And, well, perhaps she just likes the taste of amanitas and would like to be able to eat them with no consequence, and what if she has some other enemy she doesn't know about, and there was always that feeling that never quite went away, of a safety net, of some faint power and security that once grasped felt like danger itself just to let slip from her hand again. It wasn't...illogical, surely. There could always be more reasons. It was just better to be cautious, is all. To not overthink it too much. To just...down the vial and feel worse, to feel better when she got up again.

It's not a thing they think much about, anymore. It's been two or three years since the Vake, and they'll miss a dose sometimes, and feel safe enough to have no real need to make up for it. But they'll still throw out the cream if the bottle seems moved a little to the left from where they last put it, and they can't remember why, and their "curiosity" these days never quite seems to be satisfied enough.

[cross-poisoned]

hiya bitches it’s me gen (they/them)

so uhh. i am a toxicologist meaning that i study poisons and shit. if you get hit by a poison type move or swallowed shampoo or smth hmu i can probably help you.

Brief team summary below (pictures coming soon)

Gengar named Bleh. ive had him since he was a gastly, he most likely owns a significant portion of my soul but idk

Garbodor named Bo. im not really close to him tbh, my company assigns garbodor to their field researchers for easy toxin disposal. however, Bo has a weak-ass stomach, which is why I have….

Scizor named Scuttles. she has the toxin tolerance of a GOD and frequently downs stuff that Bo can’t handle then crushes the container the toxin was in with her claws. she’s kinda insane lmao.

Metang named Moxie. they help me with coming up w/ new antidotes but shhhh don’t tell my employers. currently training them up to become a metagross

Gible named Finnegan. he just hatched like 2 months ago and is currently gnawing on his pokeball :/

sooo uh yeah that’s everybody. send asks plz i am very bored (OOC BELOW CUT)

some background info:

Gen used to be a Kimono Girl but after some shit went down she left and transitioned to nonbinary. they will most likely get pissy if you ask about their past.

THIS BLOG IS MANAGED BY @genshiicomms (I chose the name gen for them because I have no imagination lmao)

they are TERRIFIED of fairy types due to the Shit That Went Down.

totally works for Aperture trust

more coming soon!!