See All ExpertsGary Ginsberg, PhD
Toxicologist, Faculty Yale and University of Connecticut
Dr. Ginsberg is a public health toxicologist whose research focuses on the unique susceptibilities of children to environmental toxicants. He evaluates risks and sets standards for contaminants in soil, drinking water, food, air and consumer products.
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Feeling bombarded by all the springtime lawn chemical ads? These products spread enough fertilizer and pesticide to bombard your lawn to within an inch of its life and make it dependent on...
Elevated levels of arsenic in foods and infant formula that are sweetened with rice syrup have been found, as shown in new research from Dartmouth College....
Several weeks ago, a fungicide called carbendazim was found in imported orange juice from Brazil. It’s a toxic pesticide that’s not supposed to be in orange juice, but evidently Brazilian growers...
A new study out of Harvard University found a link between one’s body burden of lead (the toxic heavy metal found in old paint) and Parkinson’s Disease (PD). The long-term accumulation of lead...
If you’ve heard one detonated you would think its either July 4th or there is gunplay in the neighborhood. Bottle bombs are a cocktail teenagers have discovered that mix a strong chlorine source (...
The statistics are alarming. A new study by Ohio State University shows children are being poisoned by household cleaners; 12,000 children per year are rushed off to the ER. It's totally...
Or something like that. A new study indicates that we should avoid stress because it could make your reaction to air pollution worse. The study induced stress by forcing a rat into the home cage...
The President’s Panel on Cancer just released a report stating that the environmental causes of cancer have been grossly underestimated and that it's high time the government take more assertive...
Congratulations to the new chief of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Inez Tannenbaum, for declaring that parents should throw away toy metal jewelry. That’s right, go up to your...
Happily, the news from this season’s toy shelves is YES – at least a qualified YES. The number of recalls is down 80% since the toy crisis of 2007, not because there is less testing, but because...
I normally focus on toxic chemicals and don’t comment on what the US Senate is doing. However, the actions of the Republican Senator from Louisiana, David Vitter, are a toxic...
Bisphenol A (BPA) remains on top of the charts of high profile chemicals, holding this dubious distinction for several years now. We toxicologists don’t really have a top 40 but it’s obvious that...
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