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* [[Is it the final straw that breaks the camel’s back?]]
 
* [[Is it the final straw that breaks the camel’s back?]]
 
[[Category:Arsenic to zoonoses]]
 
[[Category:Arsenic to zoonoses]]
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[[Is expert jargon just a way to confuse the man in the street?]]
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[[What is the wisdom in “It’s the dose that determines that a thing is not a poison”?]]
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[[What is a “chemical” after all?]]
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[[Is it more dangerous for us than for our ancestors?]]
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[[Are the risks of the domestic and the workplace environments different?]]
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[[What is safe to drink?]]
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[[Does water chlorination cause cancer?]]
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[[Are blue-green algae a risk to your life or at least to your liver?]]
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[[Does aluminium cause dementia?]]
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[[Arsenic in the drinking water – reminiscent of the movie “Lavender and old lace”?]]
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[[Are we starting to glow from the uranium in our environment?]]
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[[Fluoride – friend or foe?]]
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[[Blind drunk – or dead drunk?]]
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[[What is really dangerous in our diet?]]
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[[Should we be concerned about the amounts of additives in our diet?]]
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[[May even our cooking habits hurt us?]]
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[[Why not re-freeze thawed out frozen food?]]
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[[The dirty dozen – not just an old movie?]]
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[[Where do the dioxins come from?]]
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[[Are the dioxins the most dangerous chemicals in our environment?]]
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[[Are the PCB compounds really super-poisons?]]
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[[What on earth is PBDE?]]
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[[What are the hormonal disrupters?]]
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[[Tin poisoning – wasn’t even grandma’s copper kitchenware tin-plated?]]
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[[Are heavy metals still a problem today?]]
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[[Is mercury a quicksilver bullet or a slow poison?]]
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[[If this kills insects, what effect is it having on me?]]
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[[The whole field was brown-coloured; should you even go near it let alone eat anything growing there?]]
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[[Should we only eat “organic” products?]]
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[[Isn’t it safe to eat everything that grows naturally?]]
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[[Is it safe to eat wherever it’s convenient?]]
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[[What if alcohol were treated as a chemical contaminant in food?]]
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[[Can even a child’s toy be dangerous?]]
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[[How does the environment affect the child in the womb?]]
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[[Is impregnated wood safe in my garden or children’s playground?]]
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[[Can you catch toxoplasmosis from cat litter?]]
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[[What are children’s waterproof clothes made of?]]
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[[Are people too clean for their own good?]]
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[[Are cosmetics chemicals?]]
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[[Should we have antibiotic chemicals present in everyday domestic items?]]
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[[How safe are detergents?]]
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[[Can noise cause true health problems?]]
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[[Is allergy more common today?]]
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[[A healthy suntan – or is it?]]
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[[Should solariums carry a health warning?]]
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  The air that we breathe
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[[What’s wrong with the air in our cities?]]
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[[People don’t die of carbon monoxide poisoning any more – do they?]]
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[[Can the air go up in flames?]]
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[[Ozone – I thought it was the hole in the ozone layer that we need to worry about?]]
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[[Should we go back to heating our homes with wood-burning stoves?]]
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[[Climate change – will it affect our health?]]
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[[Is formaldehyde another type of formalin?]]
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[[Benzene – isn’t it only found in chemistry sets?]]
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[[Can environmental cigarette smoke cause lung cancer?]]
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[[Is there radiation in my home?]]
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[[Do we need to monitor the quality of the air in our homes?]]
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[[How can a building become sick?]]
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[[Do our recreational pastimes require special ventilation systems?]]
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[[Is asbestos still a problem today?]]
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[[What happens when a building suffers moisture damage?]]
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[[Legionnaires’ disease – why should I worry, I’m not in the Foreign Legion?]]
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[[How do air fresheners really work?]]
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[[Why is it worth investing in environmental protection?]]
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[[Indigenous populations live in harmony with their environment, don’t they?]]
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[[Environmental equilibrium and chemicals – impossible or not?]]
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[[Down the drain – is it a case of out of sight, out of mind?]]
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[[Should we compost all our household waste?]]
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[[Does it make sense to burn our domestic waste in power stations?]]
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[[Is clean energy from biomass a myth?]]
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[[Which type of energy production is friendliest to human health?]]
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[[What was the impact of the Chernobyl disaster in Europe?]]
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[[Is it safe to live close to polluted land?]]
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[[Does environmental protection also mean improved health?]]
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[[If we care about our environment, should we all be vegetarians?]]
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[[Which environmental factors increase my blood pressure?]]
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[[Are there problems in the present risk assessment practices?]]
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[[What is risk management?]]
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[[What are the most common misconceptions about risks held by the man in the street?]]
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[[Why are experts usually so sceptical?]]
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[[Why do different people rate different risks so differently?]]
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[[Can you lessen your own personal chemical burden?]]
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[[Why are people afraid of dental amalgam?]]
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[[What do we mean by the term “life cycle analysis”?]]
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[[The precautionary principle – better safe than sorry?]]
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[[Are GM foods Frankenfoods?]]
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[[Mutagenesis, carcinogenesis and other scary words – what do they really mean?]]
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[[Which type of radiation poses the greatest threat to our health?]]
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[[Are most cancers caused by exposures to chemicals?]]
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[[Is cancer more common today than it was in the past?]]
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[[We breathe oxygen; it can’t be dangerous, can it?]]
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[[Why are animal experiments still needed?]]
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[[Are electric lines and transformers dangerous?]]
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[[How dangerous is it to use a mobile phone?]]
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[[We are surrounded by risks but which of them should we take seriously?]]
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[[Are inhabitants of different countries exposed to different risks?]]
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[[Before we go on holiday which environmental health precautions should we take?]]
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[[Should risk assessment be more transparent?]]
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[[Is environmental science just another religion?]]
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[[What happens if the human race presses the self-destruct button?]]
 
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