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

• Biological contamination, refers to biological substances that threaten the health of living organisms
• Personnel contamination of cleanrooms, refers to the shedding of and control of human skin tissue to control contamination in cleanrooms in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries
• Contaminated cannabis, refers to the finding of potentially dangerous microorganisms in cannabis (marijuana)
• Contaminated haemophilia blood products, refers to 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, refers to the presence in food of harmful chemicals or microorganisms that might cause illness
• 2008 Irish pork contamination, refers to 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 2003–2014
• List of food contamination incidents, a list of worldwide food contamination incidences from ancient times to 2015
• Contaminated carrots incident, refers to the August 2004 incident in which 45 airline passengers became ill after consuming contaminated carrots

Environmental

• Pollution, refers to 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, refers to land that contain substances that may be harmful to health or the environment
• Seed contamination, refers to 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, refers to 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, refers to 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, refers to hexavalent-chromium pollution of groundwater sources for the town of Hinkley, California - an incident dramatized in the film Erin Brockovich
• Telluric contamination, refers to contamination of the astronomical spectra by the Earth's atmosphere

Industrial and technological

• 2007 United Kingdom petrol contamination, refers to 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, refers to sand that is contaminated by remains of weapons of war
• Contamination delay, in digital circuits

Research

• Contaminated Gaussian, refers to a concept in statistical modeling

Forensics

• Contaminated currency, refers to 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