food-safety

It could mean that people with celiac disease — roughly 1 in 100 worldwide — may one day safely e...

Rice you eat regularly — including white rice, rice flour, and baby rice cereals — absorbs arseni...

Every time you toast bread or bake cookies, a potentially cancer-linked chemical called acrylamid...

Vegetables, fruits, and grains grown in these soils — including sugarcane and orchard crops — are...

It points toward a practical, natural way to grow safer strawberries with lower pesticide residue...

The fruits and vegetables in your garden may already be absorbing microscopic plastic particles t...

Chicken, eggs, and turkey on your plate are the leading sources of Salmonella outbreaks, and plan...

Tomatoes on your plate may have been grown in soil where routine farm sprays are quietly breeding...

Biodegradable plastic bags, food containers, and mulch films marketed as eco-friendly may actuall...

Wheat grown in heavy-metal-contaminated soil can carry cadmium and lead into the bread on your ta...

Vegetables grown with recycled wastewater — increasingly common as droughts spread — may be safer...

Rice you buy at the grocery store may have been grown in arsenic-contaminated soil, and this rese...

Nanoparticles are already being tested in fertilizers and pesticides, so understanding how they m...

The spray applied to your grocery store strawberries or backyard tomatoes could soon be made from...

Mold toxins quietly contaminate corn, peanuts, and grains in ways that ordinary cooking and stora...

Broccoli and other brassicas readily absorb cadmium from contaminated soils, so a simple, low-cos...

If your vegetables were grown in a field that previously used plastic mulch, the residual plastic...

Vegetables and grains grown in contaminated soils can absorb cadmium, which accumulates in your b...

Arsenic quietly enters the vegetables and grains grown in contaminated soil, meaning the food on ...

Vegetables and herbs grown in soil near farms — or fertilized with animal manure — may be absorbi...

Vegetables and cooking oils grown in soil near roads, old industrial sites, or heavily fertilized...

Vegetables grown in or near contaminated land — whether near a dump, old industrial site, or heav...

Vegetables, oils, and fermented foods in your kitchen contain oxylipins that silently signal fres...

Vegetables and grains grown in soils fertilized with manure-based slurry may be absorbing antibio...

The tomatoes, cucumbers, and lettuce grown in greenhouses and hydroponic farms near you could soo...

The vegetables and grains you eat may carry invisible chemical baggage — heavy metals, industrial...

Corn on your dinner table — whether eaten directly, used in tortillas, or fed to livestock — can ...

Grain in your bread, pasta, and cereal is routinely contaminated with this fungal toxin, and unde...

Knowing exactly which genetic modifications are in your food—whether it's the corn in your tortil...

If your water source near an industrial or nuclear site is even slightly contaminated, the way yo...

The corn, peanuts, or grain in your pantry could carry invisible mold toxins that cause liver can...

Cadmium from fertilizers and industrial runoff quietly accumulates in garden soil and gets taken ...

Vegetables and fruits irrigated with recycled wastewater that still carries human viruses can abs...

Treated wastewater increasingly flows into rivers and irrigation canals that feed vegetable farms...