Chemical additives, including Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), various flame retardants and antioxidants, have raised growing global concern due to their widespread presence in the ...

A slice of red velvet cake with red sprinkles. The US Food and Drug Administration is reevaluating the safety of red no. 3 dye in food. Credit: Shutterstock The US Food and Drug Administration is ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for the nation’s top health post, has vowed to “get the chemicals out” of America’s food amid mounting concerns over the health effects of ...

Researchers say they've identified 168 chemicals that may affect gut bacteria, substances that people can encounter in a range of everyday environments. Experts from the University of Cambridge ...

Food packaging from five countries has complex, unique chemical fingerprints, and some items contain thousands of different chemicals, according to a new study (Environ. Sci. Technol. 2024, DOI: ...

Nations must start testing and regulating chemicals and chemical products as closely as the current systems that safeguard prescription drugs or risk rising rates of chronic illnesses among children, ...

Share on Pinterest A new study demonstrates how flame retardant additives in microplastics become absorbed by the skin and enter the bloodstream Alistair Berg/Getty Images Researchers are increasingly ...

Mr. Franklin-Wallis is the author of “Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future” and an editor at GQ. This essay is part of a series on environmental health. What ...

Andrew J. Whelton receives funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. National Institute ...

The question isn’t as silly as it sounds. The miraculous substances that suffuse our daily lives are not one material but many, differing wildly in look, feel and function, from the materials in Saran ...