Health officials are warning that the practice of chroming – inhaling solvents or other household chemicals – can have irreversible impacts on vital organs, including the brain. The warning comes ...

Paper packaging is a sustainable alternative to plastic. However, as it is permeable to air, food packaged in paper loses its ...

Jim Anderton today congratulated Wellington City Council on the up-and-coming launch of Wellington’s New Zealand Retailers Code of Practice – Sensible Selling: Reducing Volatile Substance Misuse, this ...

The chemical reactions taking place just above a northern Michigan forest hint that trees there and elsewhere may be emitting highly reactive gases that scientists haven’t yet identified or directly ...

RECENTLY, we experienced difficulties with the automatic analysis by gas chromatography of a process stream consisting of a liquid mixture of organic chemicals. These arose because traces of ...

Volatile organic solvents are ubiquitous commodities in the modern world and used primarily for industrial purposes. Many of these chemicals are naturally abundant, found in geological formations and ...

RELATIVES of three young victims of volatile substance abuse (VSA) in Belfast are lending their support to a drive to reduce deaths from the scourge in a new poster campaign across the province.

Halifax Regional Police blew up an expired household chemical after being called Wednesday night to a report of a "volatile substance" in a unit of a south-end apartment building. Police initially ...