A German test found “fairy lights” with toxic chemicals up to 150× legal limits, exposing hidden risks in consumer goods. Learn why SCCPs matter — and how modern GC-MS workflows improve safety and compliance.

As a child, Tomáš Čermák struggled socially, but now, at 18, he's graduating high school, winning awards, and working with the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Ondřej Mikeš works at the RECETOX center as an environmental epidemiologist in the Human Exposure and Risk Assessment group, focusing on external exposures in epidemiological research.

The RECETOX center successfully completed a project funded by GAČR - Alternative Approaches in the Assessment of Male Reproductive Toxicity of Chemical Mixtures Without Animal Testing.

The scientific team of Dr. Pavel Majer from the IOCB of the CAS has developed a new substance with the potential to treat the autoimmune disease alopecia areata, which is manifested by hair loss.

Eliška Řehůřková - why she chose toxicology, what she sees as the problem with animal testing, what challenges her field faces, and what causes more and more couples to struggle with reproductive issues.

Scientists tested nine fish species from four northern Illinois rivers for contamination with per- or polyfluoroalkyl substances, synthetic chemicals known to be harmful to human health.

But how do microplastics actually interact with the human body? What impact do they have on our environment and our health? Is it true that they penetrate places like the brain or placenta?

Barbora Rudzanová (RECETOX) is the holder of the Jiřina Michlová Prize from the Learned Society of the Czech Republic for the year 2024.

The international conference on environment and health in Central Europe took place on Monday, 11 March 2024, at the library of the Masaryk University campus in Brno, Czech Republic.