I just ingested six and a half days worth of sleeping pills.

(g) They offer versatile routes of application, because they can be ingested orally, sniffed, inhaled or injected

Depleted uranium left radioactive poison dust which was easily inhaled or ingested and which caused many illnesses and genetic deformities.

To make matters worse, it is not easy to rid the body of this carcinogenic substance once it has been ingested.

The genes would then be passed down to descendants in this switched off state. Thus, the toxins that people ingest may not be the only relevant factor should cancer strike the toxins that their parents or grandparents ingested could also be to blame.

Countless food additives are either banned or permitted only in limited quantities, as are children s toys painted with substances that could be harmful if ingested. New York City has banned trans fats from restaurants and is now limiting the permitted serving size of sugary drinks.

In 1995, WHO created an Indigenous People Substance Use Project whose overall aim is to assist in the healthy development of indigenous people and communities through the prevention and minimization to individual, family and community of problems related to the use of, production of, trafficking in and supplying of psychoactive substances (alcohol, tobacco and other drugs and substances which people use and when ingested produces a change in mental processes and behaviour).