How can I test my family's garden vegetables for nutrition/toxins? [more inside]
posted by gensubuser on Nov 15, 2008 - 7 answers

Is house permanently destroyed by paint toxins? Please Help! (Long explanation, but no way around that.) [more inside]
posted by yazi on Oct 8, 2008 - 12 answers

Where can I learn more about professional (or semi-professional) equipment for testing the levels of indoor air toxins like carbon monoxide, radon, mold, VOCs, etc.? Here's a Talk of the Nation show that addresses the need, if it helps.
posted by glibhamdreck on Feb 18, 2008 - 8 answers

I believe that another tenant has place an air "freshener" in the hallway out side of our apartments in violation of their lease. I want it removed. What should I do? [more inside]
posted by Fat Guy on May 21, 2006 - 44 answers

Are there toxic issues with a kid playing with an old circuitboard? [more inside]
posted by Danf on Mar 24, 2006 - 11 answers

What's the deal with Koyotakara detox foot pads? I saw a picture of these after being used, and got intrigued. What is really going on? [more inside]
posted by kyleg on Mar 7, 2006 - 9 answers

Paleo diet and lo carb/hi fat- Couple of questions, and want to hear how you got on. [more inside]
posted by lunkfish on Feb 21, 2006 - 17 answers

I live on the second floor of an old turn of the century mansion and the first floor party-hardy dwellers are serious chain smokers. Their noxious, secondhand smoke is so pervasive (they entertain smoker friends by the droves) that it seeps through my hardwood floors and walls and stinks up my apartment something awful. Sometimes it seems like I'm living above a nightclub it is so bad. [more inside]
posted by pranalaxmi on Jan 3, 2006 - 17 answers

BeerFilter: I've been told by 3 separate bartenders that draught beer has formaldehyde in it, that's why they only drink from bottles. A Google search shows at best that there may be two reasons for formaldehyde being in beer. (1) Can manufacturing and (2) ethanol breakdown. Are either harmful enough to avoid draught beer? [more inside]
posted by petebest on Dec 1, 2005 - 16 answers