toxic agent

A similar situation is also present with other types of toxic agents.

Significant pollution by toxic agents has been identified around the former military base.

He worked on a new method to detect toxic agents in the nervous system.

As yet, the toxic agents have not been identified.

"But any persistent highly toxic agent in the ecosystem is dangerous."

The next highest category was respiratory problems caused by toxic agents, at 16,200.

"It would make for scientific precision if we named our toxic agent.

It was previously used in the treatment of breast cancer, but has been replaced by more effective and less toxic agents.

Don't be alarmed - they're not toxic agents produced by some huge chemical company, as the name might suggest.

But the toxic agents volatilized at a known rate.

Exposure to environmental and workplace hazards such as high levels of radiation or toxic agents.

The metabolite menthofuran is thought to be the major toxic agent.

The toxic agent in the plant is swainsonine, an alkaloid.

A critical factor in handling such attacks is making a quick and accurate identification of the toxic agent.

Iraqis maintain that the toxic agents were later destroyed.

An aircraft or conventional weapon could be used to disperse a toxic agent over a large area.

The agency would also inspect civilian plants to insure that no toxic agents are made for military use.

Diplomats and officials remain skeptical of assertions that all the toxic agents were destroyed.

People who were not wounded in an immediate attack could still be harmed by environmental exposure to toxic agents.

Mercury is a toxic agent that can cause serious psychiatric, neurological, and kidney problems.

The toxic agent was found to be very stable and resistant to chemicals and heat treatment.

A major Congressional investigation concluded this week that a "variety of toxic agents" were probably responsible for veterans' health problems.

Then, I was taken off Taxol last fall and switched to a less toxic agent.

As a result, hundreds of tons of toxic agents remain unaccounted for.

The toxic agents are thought to be sesquiterpenes.