Making the most of Monday with the links
Don’t have time to scour the internet for the latest food safety, animal safety, life sciences and agriculture news? Relax, we’ve got it covered. Food safety FSIS asks researchers to focus on key food...
View ArticleCDC report: “Spice” linked to kidney failure
Courtesy of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency A synthetic designer drug has been linked to an outbreak of kidney failure in a Wyoming town last year. Three people in their late teens to early 20s were...
View ArticleDEA bans components of spice, bath salts
Courtesy of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency The U.S. moved to ban key chemicals used in synthetic, or designer, drugs last week. On Friday, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) published a final...
View ArticleTox Tuesdays: Spice
Welcome to the first edition of Tox Tuesdays, our new biweekly post that will highlight an ongoing issue related to toxicology, from drugs of concern to the latest discoveries. For more information on...
View ArticleReport: Synthetic drugs a rising problem in Europe
Spice and other synthetic cannabinoids are on the rise in Europe. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. While the popularity of some established drugs seem to be on the decline...
View ArticleNew Zealand may allow some designer drugs
Courtesy of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency Producers of designer drugs in New Zealand may soon be able to legally sell their wares – if they can prove they have a “low risk of harm”. The law, which...
View ArticleThe first Monday links of July
Don’t have time to scour the internet for the latest food safety, animal safety, life sciences and agriculture news? Relax, we’ve got it covered. Food safety Scientists’ secret ingredient for a better...
View ArticleEU takes action on “legal highs”
Spice and other synthetic cannabinoids are on the rise in Europe. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. In response to increasing reports of new psychoactive drugs entering the...
View ArticleBelated Tox Tuesday: Synthetic marijuana update
Courtesy of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency Moderator’s note: Tox Tuesday will be back to its regularly-scheduled day for the next edition, Tuesday, Jan. 7. As governments around the world wrangle...
View ArticleDEA targets four more “spice” ingredients
Courtesy of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency Four more compounds used in synthetic marijuana could soon be listed as Schedule I substances. In a Federal Register notice published last week, the U.S....
View ArticleBreaking down bath salts: Reports increasing in recent years
Courtesy of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency Despite their retreat from the news recently, emerging designer drugs are a growing problem, according to recent reports. The drugs, such as bath salts, K2...
View ArticleSynthetic marijuana leads to more than 10,000 hospital visits a year
Courtesy of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency Thousands of people were hospitalized in 2010 after using synthetic marijuana, also known as spice or K2, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health...
View ArticleKeep up to date with the Monday Links
Having a busy morning? It can be hard to keep up with everything that is going on in the food and animal science industries, and that’s why we present the Monday links. It’s your fast run-down of all...
View ArticleGet in the know with the Monday Links
Can you believe it, we’re already at our last Monday Links for July! This year is going by quickly—and lots of news, too. Read below for your latest in food safety, toxicology and agricultural news....
View ArticleTox Tuesday: European prisons crack down on ‘legal highs’
Recent reports from multiple European prisons are showing that while the use of illegal drugs continues to decrease inside prison walls, “legal highs” and the violence associated with them, remains on...
View ArticleTox Thursday: Spice-related illnesses, deaths continue to rise
Emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and calls to poison control centers have all drastically spiked this year as a more dangerous variation of the popular drug known as Spice, has found its way...
View ArticleTox Tuesday: The evolution of Spice
Since their first documented appearance in the United States in 2008, synthetic drugs have created a trend that both authorities and health care officials alike are struggling to contain. As a recent...
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