Will eating mold make you sick? You are enjoying your breakfast when you notice that your banana muffin seems to have grown a patch of fuzzy green dots. You have already taken a bite or two. Now, you ...

Food spoilage is more than a household inconvenience. Across the supply chain, spoiled food creates measurable losses that affect national economies, strain the environment, and contribute to public ...

From your phone to your sponge, your toothbrush to your trolley handle, invisible armies of bacteria are lurking on the ...

The average American consumes 45 gallons of sugary drinks yearly. At roughly $2 per 20-ounce bottle, that’s about $576 annually – enough to fund a nice vacation! Many contain artificial colors, ...

Medical experts advise that the purported benefits of of the procedure lack scientific evidence and actually could be hazardous. In other public health news: Declining vaccine rates might signal a ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture is warning the public not to consume raw milk and raw milk products from the ...

Multiple products sold in Kroger stores in more than a dozen states have been recalled within the last month due to allergens ...

An electric battery-powered flyswatter is a handheld bug zapper that kills flying insects of all kinds. It has a long handle ...

Listeria monocytogenes is ‘an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or ...

Dr. Neelendu Dey studies whether gut microbes can be harnessed to prevent and treat colon cancer. He factors the latest ...

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On a small, gently rocking research boat anchored just offshore in Chesapeake Bay, I lowered a sterile plastic bottle into ...