"There are 80, 000 chemicals in commerce, " says California Environmental Protection Agency toxicologist Stephen Dizio.
"I am totally against this, it's bordering on irresponsible, " says Chicago toxicologist Steven Aks .
Spitz, a forensic pathologist and toxicologist and the chief medical examiner for Michigan's Macomb and St.
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"It essentially is going to be a mini-lab on sight, " says Yale Caplan, a Maryland toxicologist and LifePoint consultant.
But, as toxicologist Dr John Ramsey explains, the authorities are locked in a cat-and-mouse game with dealers of these substances.
"Mold exposure does not cause significant disease, " says Paul Wax, a practicing toxicologist in Phoenix who isn't involved in litigation.
All it would have taken is a phone call or an e-mail to a toxicologist to confirm that Good Guides' warning was groundless.
In hindsight, FDA regrets that no toxicologist participated in the meeting.
But a trained toxicologist found no evidence of heavy metal poisoning.
"People are exposed to mycotoxins every day, " says Daniel Sudakin, a toxicologist and mold expert at Oregon State University who has testified for the defense in one mold case.
But getting data from items like clothing "is really tricky business, " said Cham Dallas, a professor and toxicologist at the University of Georgia's Institute for Health Management and Mass Destruction Defense.
It's the controversial thesis of University of Massachusetts toxicologist and school of public health professor Edward Calabrese that small doses of certain poisons may have the paradoxical effect of lengthening life spans.
Dr John Hoskins, a consultant toxicologist, says that while the initial spill was quite dangerous, there should not be any long-term impact on human health as long as the waste is cleaned up.
That's because they typically require studies that meet a long list of criteria, says Wolfgang Dekant, a toxicologist at the University of Wuerzburg in Germany and a member of a panel that reviewed BPA research a few years ago for the European Food Safety Authority.
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