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

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 incidents in China from 2003 to 2014
  • List of food contamination incidents, a list of worldwide food contamination incidents 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

Research

Forensics

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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