Thin skins, porous textures, and farming practices can make certain fruits and vegetables more likely to retain higher levels ...

Every spring, millions of Americans load their grocery carts with the same produce they always buy: a bag of spinach for the ...

Before they could walk or talk, dozens of children born in New York City had their first encounter with chlorpyrifos recorded in a vial of cord blood. Years later, when those same children lay still ...

The study assesses pesticide exposure and DNA damage in 45 Latinx children ages 10 to 12 from rural, farmworker families (30) and urban, non-farmworker families (15). Participants were selected from a ...

On May 1, the Environmental Protection Agency released its draft fungicide strategy for public comment. The strategy document can be found at The fungicide strategy outlines how the EPA plans to ...

Pesticides have long been used in farming to protect crops from voracious critters that can decimate yields. However, the harmful chemicals they contain do more than kill the bad bugs. According to a ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 14, 2025) A literature review in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety finds a sex-specific relationship between pesticide exposure and thyroid cancer, with heightened ...

These popular household fruits are coated with the most pesticides and forever chemicals - Several have possible ...

Personal use and indirect exposure to certain insecticides and pesticides was linked to incident rheumatoid arthritis among spouses of licensed pesticide applicators. Personal and indirect exposure to ...

Pesticide poisoning can be confused with common illnesses like the flu. “Pesticides include chemicals used to control weeds (herbicides), insects (insecticides), rodents (rodenticides) or fungi ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Agricultural workers with extensive exposure to pesticides may have an elevated risk of brain cancer, new research suggests. In a study of nearly 700 adults with or without ...