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...

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

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

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

Lettuce you grow with recycled water or irrigate near agricultural land may silently carry antibi...

Wood ash from your fireplace or backyard fire pit is the same material studied here — and the fee...

Compost you spread on vegetable beds or buy from a garden center may be quietly delivering a dose...

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

Compost and manure-based fertilizers you spread in your vegetable beds likely carry both plastic ...

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...

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...

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...

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

Manure-amended vegetable beds may carry invisible antibiotic residues that quietly suppress your ...

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

If your vegetable garden sits near farmland where animal waste is used as fertilizer, antibiotic ...

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

If you grow vegetables in urban soil built on industrial fill, the bacteria your plant roots recr...

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

Rice grown in contaminated southern Chinese soils is a leading global source of dietary cadmium e...

If you grow vegetables in soil that's ever been near industrial sites, old orchards, or heavily f...

Rice grown in arsenic-contaminated paddies quietly concentrates that arsenic into the grain you e...

Limestone — the same material gardeners use to sweeten acidic soil — turns out to be a powerful, ...

Wheat fields near old industrial zones or heavily fertilized farms can quietly accumulate cadmium...

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

If you've ever wondered whether shoveling manure compost into your raised beds puts anything unwa...

If you grow vegetables in soil that's been amended with manure or compost, biochar mixed into you...

If your vegetable garden is irrigated with well water from a fluoride-prone aquifer, the leafy gr...

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

If you're growing edible plants near old industrial sites, roadsides, or anywhere soil quality is...

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

Peanuts grown in cadmium-contaminated soil quietly accumulate that metal into the nuts you eat, a...

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

Compost made from kitchen scraps can do more than feed your garden — engineered versions of it ma...

Rice paddies grown in soils with even trace heavy metal pollution quietly concentrate cadmium and...

If you grow lettuce in containers or a hydroponic setup, the microbial world living on your plant...

The cowpea vines climbing your garden fence can pull 'forever chemicals' from contaminated irriga...

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...

The compost pile in your backyard isn't just about fertility — what you add to contaminated soil ...

Vegetables grown in urban garden beds or near old industrial sites can silently concentrate heavy...

Vegetables grown in urban garden plots or on land near old industrial sites can quietly accumulat...

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

Battery recycling facilities and landfills quietly leach metal cocktails into nearby soils, and t...

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

Biochar you add to your vegetable beds may clean up soil contaminants brilliantly or lock them in...

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

If you've been hunting for a genuinely low-risk organic soil amendment to boost your garden beds,...

If you grow peas in containers or hydroponic setups, the growing medium matters far more than you...

Job's tears grain and lily bulbs sold in herbal markets and health food stores were contaminated ...

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

Lead from mine-contaminated soil doesn't stay on the mine — it travels up through plant roots int...

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...

Rice grown in contaminated soils absorbs cadmium and arsenic into the grain you eat, and these li...

That bag of composted manure or liquid fertilizer you're working into your vegetable beds could b...

Vegetables grown in soil near old fire-training sites or airports may still take up PFOS even aft...

Vegetables grown in mercury-contaminated soil — even backyard raised beds near old industrial sit...

Cadmium from fertilizers and industrial fallout quietly builds up in garden soil over decades, an...

Rapeseed oil and canola products on your shelf may carry trace cadmium absorbed from contaminated...

If you grow eggplant or other nightshades and your neighbors spray pesticides that drift into you...

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

If you brew beer or distill whiskey at home, the barley malt in your grain bill quietly carries c...

Plants you grow and eat — spinach, ginger, grapes — are being harvested for nanoscale particles t...

If you grow food with irrigation water sourced near fish farms or downstream waterways, both anti...

If you grow lupins or peaches and eat them fresh from the garden, the fats naturally present on t...

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

Soil-transmitted worm infections thrive in the same warm, humid, vegetated landscapes where backy...

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

Rotavirus and other gut pathogens thrive in the same contaminated water and poor sanitation condi...