Some spice processors in Bangladesh use an industrial lead chromate pigment to imbue turmeric with a bright yellow color prized for curries and other traditional dishes, elevating blood lead levels in Bangladeshis

Zoonotic diseases now constitute more than 60 percent of emerging infectious diseases

The risk to children exposed to DDT and hexachlorocyclohexane accumulated in fish is significantly higher than it is for adults

When consumers turn on a faucet, they expect the drinking water that gushes out to be safe

Simple, scalable wireless system uses the RFID tags on billions of products to sense contamination

Use of organophosphates has lessened, but risks to early brain development still too high

Wild monkeys in the Americas are transmitting the Zika virus to humans via mosquitoes