Credit - Photo-Illustration by Chloe Dowling for TIME (Source Images: Ildar Abulkhanov—Getty Images, Peter Dazeley—Getty Images, Ibnatul Ula—Hadiiiben's Images via Canva.com) Americans are worried ...

Kristin Hostetter is the Head of Sustainability at Outside Interactive, Inc. and the resident sustainability columnist on Outside Online. Hostetter has worked as a journalist in the outdoor industry ...

Food produced on farms whose land was contaminated with toxic “forever chemicals” may pose a risk to human health, according to a new draft report from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The ...

From popular brands like Burger King, McDonald's, Starbucks, and Whole Foods to everyday kitchen staples such as rice and salt, a new study highlights the alarming extent of plastic contamination in ...

Ms. Belluz is a contributing Opinion writer covering health, nutrition and chronic illness. The health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., believes toxic chemicals in food are behind the U.S. explosion ...

The recently updated, open-access FCCmigex database now compiles information on 5,294 food contact chemicals from packaging and other food contact articles across 1,500 scientific studies. Latest ...

We consume far too many chemicals in ultra-processed food than is good for our health, according to a review article in Nature Medicine. We are unaware of many of these chemicals because they can get ...

The FDA is giving consumers one month to comment on a proposed method for ranking chemicals in food. The new method would involve a systematic and science-based approach to determine which chemicals ...

Americans are worried about the chemicals in their food, and some politicians are expressing the same concerns. In January, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asserted that the food supply is ...

Matt Fuchs lives in Maryland and writes about health, science, and technology. Photo-Illustration by Chloe Dowling for TIME (Source Images: Ildar Abulkhanov—Getty Images, Peter Dazeley—Getty Images, ...