The Poison Detectives
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S2E9 Doing it For Yourself
What does the ordinary person do to protect themselves when regulators fail?How can you know what is safe to eat – or safe to eat just a little – or safe to eat if you wash it? There are groups…
S2E8 The Weed Killer
For more than thirty years, scientists, regulators, and one of the world’s most powerful chemical companies have been locked in a battle over the active ingredient in Roundup -- a chemical called…
S2E7 The Birds and The Bees
Industry capture can happen when a regulator has too few resources and relies on industry analysis of studies on a product up for review. It can happen when the culture of the government agency is to…
S2E6 Pesticides for Dinner
Pesticides for Dinner reveals how trust in Canada's food system is damaged by a regulatory system that works too closely with the industry and often fails to act when science uncovers the health…
Toxic Justice
In this episode, everyone has given up on the regulators, who move slowly if at all. Lawsuits are filed by Diane Cotter’s husband Paul and his colleagues. The union, the International Association of…
The Devil They Knew
We learn about the contamination of military bases in the U.S. and Canada from PFAS chemicals in firefighting foam. And how the foam residue has poisoned drinking water sources in both countries. We…
The Best Regulations Money Can Buy
Lawyer Rob Bilott completes the promise he made to his grandmother and has to decide if he will go back to corporate law or continue to fight the multinational company, Dupont. He tries to get the…
Who's Minding the Store?
It begins with a memorial ceremony in Colorado for fallen firefighters. It used to be that firefighters died in fires or from inhaling toxic smoke. Today the majority die from cancer.We meet a…
Secret Ingredient
It begins with an unlikely detective. Diane Cotter wasn’t a researcher, a scientist, a journalist or a sleuth. But she became all of that after her firefighting husband got cancer. Then, dozens of…
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A firefighter’s wife and a corporate lawyer in different parts of the U.S. get pulled into solving separate mysteries. Something was making cows die and deer haemorrhage to death in West…
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The Poison Detectives has published 10 episodes since February 2024, covering topics in Documentary, Science.
The Poison Detectives is currently dormant with new episodes every few days. Average episode length is 44m.
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