Contamination (disambiguation)

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, the biological substances that threaten the health of living organisms
• Personnel contamination of cleanrooms, the shedding of and control of human skin tissue as contamination in cleanrooms in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries
• Contaminated cannabis, potentially dangerous microorganisms in cannabis (marijuana)
• Contaminated haemophilia blood products, pathogens found in blood products
• List of medicine contamination incidents, a list of medicine contamination incidents, with articles on notable incidents
• List of contaminated cell lines, a list of cell cultures which have been cross-contaminated and overgrown by other cells

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

• 2007 United Kingdom petrol contamination, 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, sand that is contaminated by remains of weapons of war
• Contamination delay, the minimum time for an input change to change output in digital circuits

Research

• Contaminated Gaussian, a concept in statistical modeling

Forensics

• Contaminated currency, the finding of illegal drugs or other potential pathogens on paper money

Linguistics

• linguistic contamination as a form of analogical change
• blend words are called contaminations in a number of languages

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