2022-05-13 The European Commission has been forced to make a U-turn on its controversial decision to identify resorcinol as an SVHC after finding that it…
2022-05-06 HSE has proposed a restriction on hazardous substances present in tattoo inks and PMU as a precautionary measure to address potential risks to human…
2022-05-03 On April 30, 2022, news agency Focus Taiwan reported that Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) will ban food packaging made of or containing any…
2022-05-12 New Zealand generates more than 17 million tonnes of waste each year, and we send almost 13 million tonnes of that to landfill. Our…
Substance toxic to aquatic life found in country for first time, study says
2022-05-10 According to a May 9, 2022, news item published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), “Advancing EPA’s Understanding of the Next Generation of…
2022-05-11 The next time you order takeout at a favorite restaurant, there is a decent chance it will include a side order of toxic forever…
2022-05-11 Toxic per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances, known as PFAS or “forever chemicals,” are a family of more than 9,000 synthetic, human-made chemicals that barely…
2022-05-10 In honor of National Drinking Water Week, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) today announced that 39 public water systems across the Commonwealth…
2022-05-10 Back in October 2020, the European Commission (EC) issued its Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability to achieve a “toxic-free environment” as part the European Green…
2022-05-11 The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP Panel) published the minutes of the 26th to…
2022-05-13 Environmental journalist Anna Turns experienced a wake-up call when she had her blood tested for toxic synthetic chemicals – and discovered that some contaminants…
2022-05-10 In March, the US 3M Company stopped operating its PFAS (perfluoro/polyfluoroalkyl compound) refrigerant plant in Belgium. This attracted the attention of the semiconductor industry…
2022-05-02 For Google, the search features are part of a larger push to build products and tools that empower people to better understand and limit…
2022-05-10 The stratum corneum protects the body against external agents, such as metals, chemicals, and toxics. Although it is considered poorly permeable to them, comprising…
2022-05 Background: Research suggests environmental contaminants can impact metabolic health; however, high costs prohibit in vivo screening of putative metabolic disruptors. High-throughput screening programs, such…
2022-05-05 Endometriosis is a disease characterized by the presence of the uterine endometrium outside of its normal location. As the etiology of endometriosis is not…
2022-04-28 The autoregressive integrated moving average with exogenous regressors (ARIMAX) modeling studies of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) are still rare. This study aims to explore whether…