Metal elements play a vital role in life on Earth and are an essential part of foods for humans and animals. Elements can either be introduced as contaminants during food processing or be taken up by ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Rice cereal, formula, purees and puffs. They’re among the most popular products purchased from the baby food aisle. And they share one more thing in common: They likely contain toxic ...

One of the most iconic ecosystems of the Peruvian plateau, the Junín Lake basin, suffers from "critical" levels of arsenic, ...

In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers investigated the levels of toxic micro-elements and elements between breast milk samples from non-smoking women and those who ...

Over the years, common household items have been revealed to be some kind of toxic—from older types of non-stick cookware to lead paint and asbestos flooring—as scientific research reveals newer and ...

Worms that inhabit hydrothermal vents combine environmental arsenic and sulfide to form a nontoxic mineral to survive in a harsh environment. Unlike this vibrant worm, most other deep-sea denizens ...

More than dust-filled air could be plaguing residents around the quickly evaporating Salton Sea in Imperial Valley. University of California, Riverside research shows toxic aerosols could also be ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The upper critical level of a potentially toxic element is its minimum concentration in actively growing tissues of a plant at which yield is ...