As of Jan. 1, 2025, every company that sells baby food products in California is required to test for four heavy metals every month. Parents across the U.S. should soon be able to determine how ...

Nearly half of 160 different protein powders recently tested by the nonprofit Clean Label Project exceeded California’s Proposition 65 strict safety thresholds for heavy metals like lead and ...

Why it matters: More than 190 million gallons of fire retardant have been dropped across California since 2006, according to data from Cal Fire.

As of Jan. 1, 2025, every company that sells baby food products in California is required to test for these four heavy metals every month.

The research, led by Deyi Hou and colleagues, analysed nearly 8,00,000 soil samples from 1,493 regional studies using advanced machine learning to map global contamination patterns.

Up to 17 percent of the planet’s agricultural land may be contaminated by toxic heavy metals, a new study has found. As many as 1.4 billion people reside in areas with soil dangerously polluted ...