Contamination (disambiguation)
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Contamination is the presence of an unwanted constituent in another substance.
Contamination may also refer to:
Health, environment, and technology
- Contamination control, generic terminology for all activities aiming to control the existence, growth and proliferation of contamination in certain areas
Medicine and health
- Biological contamination refers to biological substances that threaten the health of living organisms.
- Personnel contamination of cleanrooms refers to the shedding of and control of human skin tissue to control contamination in cleanrooms in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries
- Contaminated cannabis refers to the finding of potentially dangerous microorganisms in cannabis (marijuana)
- Contaminated haemophilia blood products refers to pathogens found in blood products
- List of medicine contamination incidents a list of medicine contamination incidences from 1937, 1982, 2007 2008, 2009, and 2012
- List of contaminated cell lines is a list of cell cultures which have been cross-contaminated and overgrown by other cells
Food
- Food contaminant refers to the presence in food of harmful chemicals or microorganisms that might cause illness.
- 2008 Irish pork crisis refers to dioxin contamination of pork products produced in Ireland in 2008
- Food contamination in China is a chronology of food contamination and safety incidences in China from 2003 - 2014
- List of food contamination incidents a list of worldwide food contamination incidences from ancient times to 2015
- Contaminated carrots incident refers to the August 2004 incident in which 45 airline passengers became ill after consuming contaminated carrots
Environmental
- Pollution refers to contamination of the natural environment
- Radioactive contamination, also called radiological contamination
- Radioactive contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant a former nuclear weapons production facility near Denver, Colorado that caused radiological contamination on and outside the site.
- Radioactively contaminated areas: a list of Wikipedia pages describing radioactively contaminated areas and places
- Chemical contamination, a disambiguation page related to chemical hazards, adulterants, and weapons
- Soil contamination is also known as soil pollution
- Contaminated land refers to land that contain substances that may be harmful to health or the environment
- Seed contamination refers to mixing agricultural seeds with undesirable seeds such as weeds or soil containing non-agricultural seeds
- Contaminated site is a page specifically describing the urban planning term Brownfield land, land which may have been contaminated from prior use
- Groundwater pollution
- Well water contamination
- Arsenic contamination of groundwater
- List of Superfund sites in the United States a list of sites contaminated by hazardous materials that require long-term response to remediate
- Camp Lejeune water contamination refers to the exposure of Marine Corp members and their family members to harmful chemicals in the water on the base from 1953 to 1987
- Contaminated Land Assessment and Remediation Research Centre refers to a University of Edinburgh multi-disciplinary centre of excellence that existed from 1989 to 2010
- Water contamination in Crestwood, Illinois is about contamination of the Village of Crestwood, Illinois water supply over a period of 40 years
- Hinkley groundwater contamination refers to hexavalent-chromium pollution of groundwater sources for the town of Hinkley, California - an incident dramatized in the film Erin Brockovich
- Telluric contamination refers to contamination of the astronomical spectra by the Earth's atmosphere
Industrial and technological
- 2007 United Kingdom petrol contamination refers to a 2007 situation in South East England in which silicon-contaminated petrol was thought to have damaged petrol engines in some vehicles
- Contamination Indicator Decontamination Assurance System, technology used to identify chemical contamination. A Department of Defense system.
- War sand refers to sand that is contaminated by remains of weapons of war
- Contamination delay, in digital circuits
Research
- Contaminated Gaussian refers to a concept in statistical modeling
Forensics
- Contaminated currency refers to the finding of illegal drugs or other potential pathogens on paper money
Entertainment
- Contamination (film), 1980 science fiction horror film directed by Luigi Cozzi and starring Ian McCulloch
- Contamination.7 (film), a 1993 Italian horror film directed by Joe D'Amato and Fabrizio Laurenti also known as Creepers, Troll 3, Troll III: Contamination Point 7, or The Crawlers
- Contaminator (film) a 1989 Italian science fiction film written by Claudio Fragasso and directed by Bruno Mattei. Also known as: Shocking Dark, Terminator II, and Alienators
- Contamination (Private Practice), an episode of the American television series Private Practice
- Contamination (album), 1996 album by Belgian electro-industrial act Suicide Commando
- Cross contamination (album) 2008 album by the rock bands Batmobile and Peter Pan Speedrock
- Stolen & Contaminated Songs (album) a 1992 album by the band Coil
- The Contaminated Void (album) a 2006 album by the band Coldworker
- Consume to Contaminate (album) a 2006 audio recording by the band Rotten Sound
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