The FDA is strengthening its oversight of food chemicals, signaling a shift towards a more proactive and comprehensive approach to food safety. This move comes in the wake of increasing public concern ...

Inside the Trump administration, many of America’s top regulators have deep ties to heavily polluting industries, raising ...

The Trump administration will consider rolling back Biden-era regulations that increased safeguards for workers at chemical ...

President Trump has repeatedly said he’ll take on toxic chemicals — but many of his administration’s actions are expected to ...

In September 2023, sirens blared again across Hopewell, Virginia, after oleum, commonly known as fuming sulfuric acid, leaked from the AdvanSix chemical plant. The plant, one of many big polluters in ...

On March 20, EPA announced proposed significant new use rules (SNUR) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to compel companies to report all new uses of five groups of chemicals: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most Americans, and most New Yorkers, are concerned about chemicals in their food and drinking water, according to a survey from ...

The Biden-Harris administration has banned two cancer-causing chemicals, Trichloroethylene (TCE) and Perchloroethylene (PCE), in a "major milestone" for chemical safety. The rules ban all uses of TCE, ...

Workers in chemical plants, along with communities near such facilities, will have to wait longer for regulations that aim to reduce cancer and other health risks associated with widely used solvents ...

(CN) — A hard-fought challenge to Europe’s chemical safety rules fell flat on Wednesday, when the EU’s General Court upheld the classification of a widely used rubber additive as toxic to reproduction ...

Dutch experts discussed a range of microbial and chemical safety topics in 2023 and rated them in terms of risk. To identify new food safety risks as early as possible, the Ministry of Health, Welfare ...

A Pew survey shows more than 70% of New Yorkers worry about harmful chemicals in food and drinking water.