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A series of studies has found that fashion and beauty products sold on Shein and Temu contain dangerous levels of toxic ...

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Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ are increasingly showing up in the environment, our food and drinking water, and throughout our ...

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

A child would need to eat 9,000 cookies in a day to approach harmful levels of pesticide or naturally occurring heavy metals.

Sodium fluoroacetate, known commonly as 1080, is an odourless, tasteless white powder that is diluted with water to ...

Micro- and nanoscale plastic particles in soil and water can significantly increase how much toxic chemicals plants and human intestinal cells absorb, according to two new studies from Rutgers Health ...

Researchers find that tiny plastic particles increase the absorption of environmental arsenic and pesticides in lettuce and human intestinal cells, raising new safety concerns about plastic pollution.

The FDA has updated the product labeling for Xeloda and 5-FU to highlight the risks associated with dihydropyrimidine ...

Even brief exposure can be dangerous, and there is no safe level of secondhand smoke. In the U.S., it causes about 41,000 ...