When jewelry containing cadmium is worn regularly or mouthed—especially by children—it can leach into the skin or be ingested ...

Food inspectors are urgently advising consumers not to eat the product recalled over fears about lead and cadmium levels.

Consumer Reports and Unleaded Kids evaluated baby food brands for compliance with California’s AB899 requiring heavy metal ...

Parashore Pear Slices in juice were recalled by the FDA due to potential lead and cadmium contamination. Here’s a list of ...

Acid rain and metals from power plants, vehicles and industries reached remote mountain lakes for years. Evidence from those ...

Cadmium is a heavy metal present in certain foods and cigarette smoke. People who work in professions like mining are at an elevated risk of cadmium exposure. Find out what the health effects of ...

We tested 28 dark chocolate bars for lead and cadmium. To determine the risk posed by the chocolates in CR’s test, we used California's maximum allowable dose level (MADL) for lead (0.5 ...

Attention chocoholics: Your favorite candies may be contaminated with lead and other heavy metals known to cause long-term health problems. A new study found dozens of popular chocolates made in ...

Cadmium, however, also happens to be an indispensable pigment for an important part of the color palette - without it there is no "fire engine red" (think Superman's cape and Dorothy's slippers).

The bluish-white metal that is known as cadmium is malleable, ductile and can easily be cut with a knife. Due to its excellence as an electrical conductor, cadmium is often used in electroplating ...

Since cadmium is also a heavy metal, it might have similar effects on the brain, Lanphear and Wright said. But unlike lead, cadmium “is relatively understudied as respect to brain toxicity ...