Chemicals in everyday plastics may be fueling obesity, infertility, and asthma that begin in childhood. Experts warn urgent ...

A study by the University of Portsmouth has revealed for the first time the extent of the devastating impact of plastic pollution on livestock, humans and the wider environment on the Kenyan island of ...

SAN DIEGO — A recent study came out about the levels of harmful chemicals in practically everything we eat. CBS 8’s Neda Iranpour spoke with a local researcher who shared her shocking findings about ...

Our food travels a complex path to our dinner tables, which increases the risk of contamination from substances that shouldn’t be there. Among these are plasticizers, chemicals used to make plastics ...

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Tuesday expressed the Philippines’ readiness to forge cooperation with global partners ...

Phthalates such as di-(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) have been the most commonly used plasticizers in the medical device industry. Although they have been employed to ensure that PVC compounds achieve ...

Consumer Reports is back with another sobering investigation into the bisphenols and phthalates — chemicals known as plasticizers — in common supermarket and fast foods. CR found that despite growing ...

Consumer Reports is urging General Mills to reduce plastic chemicals in its pre-packaged foods. In a letter sent Wednesday to General Mills, the advocacy group said it found "concerning" levels of ...

BOSTON - A new study by Consumer Reports found a large amount of the foods we eat contain tiny plastics called phthalates and they can be harmful. "We wanted to see, number one, are they there in the ...

A study with 775 mother-child pairs in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) finds an association with maternal exposure to certain plasticizers (phthalates) and smaller volumetric measures in the brain of ...