A toxic green pigment was once used to color everything from fake flowers to book covers. Now a museum conservator is working to track down the noxious volumes. During the 19th century ...

University of St. Andrews Libraries and Museums developed a device for detecting the toxic green pigment. Thousands of books believed to be toxic have been quarantined at museums and libraries ...

You probably do not need us to tell you that Arsenic is not healthy stuff. This wasn’t always such common knowledge, as for a ...

However, the project researchers also determined that, for the moment at least, the chromium and lead in chrome yellow dyed book covers are still bound to the cloth. The emerald green pigment ...

Called Paris green, or Scheele's green ... Since 2019, University of Delaware researches have tested hundreds of book covers for heavy metals and toxic pigments. A list of potentially dangerous ...

Sponsor Message Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, who is the creator of his own comic book series La Borinqueña and has collaborated with DC Comics in the past, told NPR that he believes these covers ...