Contamination (disambiguation)
Contamination is the presence of an unwanted constituent in another substance.
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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, the biological substances that threaten the health of living organisms
- Personnel contamination of cleanrooms, the shedding of and control of human skin tissue to control contamination in cleanrooms in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries
- Contaminated cannabis, potentially dangerous microorganisms in cannabis (marijuana)
- Contaminated haemophilia blood products, 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, a list of cell cultures which have been cross-contaminated and overgrown by other cells
Food
- Food contamination, the presence in food of harmful chemicals or microorganisms that might cause illness
- 2008 Irish pork contamination, dioxin contamination of pork products produced in Ireland in 2008
- Food contamination in China, a chronology of food contamination and safety incidences in China from 2003 to 2014
- List of food contamination incidents, a list of worldwide food contamination incidences from ancient times to 2015
- Contaminated carrots incident, the August 2004 incident in which 45 airline passengers became ill after consuming contaminated carrots
Environmental
- Pollution, 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 (disambiguation), a disambiguation page related to chemical hazards, adulterants, and weapons
- Soil contamination, also known as soil pollution
- Contaminated land, land that contain substances that may be harmful to health or the environment
- Seed contamination, mixing agricultural seeds with undesirable seeds such as weeds or soil containing non-agricultural seeds
- Contaminated site, 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, 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, a University of Edinburgh multi-disciplinary centre of excellence that existed from 1989 to 2010
- Water contamination in Crestwood, Illinois, about contamination of the Village of Crestwood, Illinois water supply over a period of 40 years
- Hinkley groundwater contamination, hexavalent-chromium pollution of groundwater sources for the town of Hinkley, California - an incident dramatized in the film Erin Brockovich
- Telluric contamination, contamination of the astronomical spectra by the Earth's atmosphere
Industrial and technological
- 2007 United Kingdom petrol contamination, 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, sand that is contaminated by remains of weapons of war
- Contamination delay, in digital circuits
Research
- Contaminated Gaussian, a concept in statistical modeling
Forensics
- Contaminated currency, 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
- Contaminator, a 1989 Italian science fiction film
- Contamination (Private Practice), an episode of the American television series Private Practice
- Contamination (album), 1996 album by Belgian electro-industrial act Suicide Commando
- "Contaminated" (song), 2019 song by American singer-songwriter Banks
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