Pesticides and herbicides are critical to ensuring food security worldwide, but these substances can present a safety risk to people who unwittingly ingest them. Protecting human health, therefore, ...

Organic farmers dedicate their working lives to producing food with minimal help from pesticides, but in curbing the use of chemicals on their own land, they may unwittingly be triggering a spike in ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday announced the formal cancellation of a pesticide linked to fetal damage three months after issuing an emergency order to pull it from the market.

The House Committee on Agriculture’s draft of the 2024 Farm Bill would weaken protections against pesticides, potentially harming communities and simultaneously benefit some of Big Ag’s most notorious ...

Andi Breitowich works across digital and print magazines covering health, fitness, nutrition, and the latest trends. Her work has appeared in Women's Health, POPSUGAR, Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, and ...

Newton’s Third Law of Motion is that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. An example of this is currently playing out with pesticides and food safety and other health issues.

A little-heard-of pesticide linked to infertility in animals is showing up in the overwhelming majority of samples of oat-based foods sold in the United States, including popular cereal brands Quaker ...