We all know that ordering takeout is easy, but is it really the best idea to eat fast food on a regular basis? It may be time ...

Pfas and microplastics lurk everywhere – from pots and pans to storage containers and utensils. These simple changes are a ...

Product safety, measuring the health effects of exposure to chemicals and chemical contaminants in food.

Flow chemistry is the development and study of chemical reactions whereby reactants are combined by pumping fluids, including solutions of reagents, through tubes at known rates. The relative ...

Polymer Chemistry Communications contain novel scientific work of such importance that rapid publication is desirable. Authors should briefly indicate in a covering letter the reasons why they feel ...

There’s been a lot of chatter recently about microplastics and “forever chemicals” in everyday products. Now, the conversation has turned to what's in your tap water. Some drinking water contains per- ...

A numerical error in a scientific paper created alarm around the chemicals in black plastic utensils, but the extent to which they cause harm is up for debate ...

A new study has found that US communities exposed to drinking water contaminated with 'forever chemicals' have up to 33 percent higher rates of certain cancers. These chemicals were first used in ...

In France, drinking water contamination by "forever chemicals" (PFAS, for per- and polyfluoroalkylated substances) is reaching unsuspected levels. Two separate measurement campaigns, made public o ...

The spatula, which had been left in a pan on the stovetop, got so hot, it eventually melted into a black mess of plastic and chemicals. "It smelled like chemical warfare," described the tenant in the ...

In the quest to take the "forever" out of "forever chemicals," bacteria might be our ally. Most remediation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) involves adsorbing and trapping them ...