Word: toxicologists
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...standards provide a margin of safety "100 times higher" than the dosage that would affect a normal person. "A 60-lb. child could eat a whole teal and still be five times below the 'no effect' level," said an agency spokesman. To that, National Wildlife Federation Toxicologist George Manring retorted: "People may not drop dead from eating one bird. But endrin accumulates over several seasons and from different sources."It also remains in the soil for months and sometimes for years, a fact that led state Health Director John Dry-nan to wonder: "Will endrin...
...contain about 50 mg of PPA and between 100 mg and 200 mg of caffeine, a look-alike capsule can carry 50 mg of PPA and 200 mg to 500 mg of caffeine, which in heavy doses can cause heart or respiratory failure. Says Dr. John Spikes, an Illinois toxicologist: "People hear caffeine, and they think of a cup of coffee. You get between 50 mg and 100 mg in a cup of coffee. The people we're seeing using these drugs are taking ten to 20 pills at once." In other words, they can ingest the caffeine...