Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena and their colleagues from the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague have developed a new method to quickly and reliably detect metabo...

SANTA CRUZ ­– For the first time, scientists detect a highly toxic form of mercury in groundwater flows at two coastal sites in California. ...

Tri-substituted organostannic compounds such as tributyltin and triphenyltin compounds are limited in articles marketed within the EU to concentrations below 0.1% by weight of tin....

Fire Protection in Shipyard Employment, contamination issues related to Hexavalent Chromium and Employer Payment for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) are three additions to the Shipyard Industry St...

Infants and young children up to the age of four-and-a-half should not consume rice milk as a substitute for cow’s milk, breast milk, or infant formula, the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has advised....

Researchers from the University of Münster have developed analytical methods for the simultaneous determination of gadolinium-based contrast agent Magnevist (Gd-DTPA) and its transmetalation products ...

Mercury levels in the Pacific Ocean are rising, a new study suggests. The increase may mean that more methylmercury, a human neurotoxin formed when mercury is methylated by microbes, accumulates in ma...

Scientists from the University of Münster (Germany) followed the fate of Gadolinium-based contrast media from the hospital through the waste water treatment plant by speciation analysis using HILIC-IC...

Researchers from Spain and France found a complex dependency of the analytical results obtained by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) for silicon from the silicon-compo...

Arsenic is a very toxic substance often found in the environment, but scientists from Montana and Florida have found a Yellowstone National Park alga that's able to withstand and detoxify even high co...