Digitalis obscura the use of herbal medicinal remedies using "Digitalis obscura" has lessened to a great degree because of the knowledge of its high toxicity. In ethnoveterinary medicine, the flowering stems of "Digitalis obscura" were traditionally used to promote wound healing and treat toothaches in animals. It is one of twenty-three species traditionally used in Granada to treat trauma or poisoning in animals. All parts of "Digitalis obscura" are poisonous if ingested raw, including the roots and seeds. The most potent parts of the plant are the upper leaves. All foxgloves are highly toxic if eaten because they contain various cardiac glycosides
Radioactive contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant of substantial contamination from the 1957 plutonium fire until after the highly visible 1969 fire, when civilian monitoring teams confronted government officials with measurements made outside the plant of radioactive contamination suspected to be from the 1969 fire, which consumed hundreds of pounds of plutonium (850 kg). The 1969 fire raised public awareness of potential hazards posed by the plant and led to years of increasing citizen protests and demands for plant closure. Releases from previous years had not been reported publicly prior to the fire; airborne-become-groundborne radioactive contamination extending well beyond the Rocky Flats plant was not publicly reported