Talk:Toxicology
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[edit] Unclean food
The Unclean animals article and the Clean animals article has a section marked "scientific studies" that concentrates on the results of a notable pharmacologist David Macht.
Does anyone know if his results are uncontested, or are contested, and therefore if the section is neutral or not?
(Please edit that article rather than contacting me, I'm not that interested, I just noticed it had a neutrality problems sticker when I was going past it) Clinkophonist 16:31, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Methanol is Poisonous
The second paragraph in this article contains a significant error when it states "methanol, which is not poisonous itself". Actually, methanol is very toxic. The ACGIH TLV is 200 ppm. Bluntly, if you drink a little methanol, you will go blind - permanently, and, if you drink a lot, you will die. WVhybrid 16:03, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
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I agree with WVhybrid. The statement that you quoted is potentially misleading and should be deleted or at least reworded. Although it is, in fact, a metabolite of methonal that is responsible for biological damage, it is nonetheless correct to say that methanol is "poisonous". In other words, just because methanol needs to be metabolized to an active form for toxicity to take place, doesn't mean that methanol cannot be considered a "poison." It's just semantics, I know, but it could mislead some people into thinking that methanol is not toxic. Jay Litman 16:06, 22 September 2006
