With the holiday season approaching, many of us will be indulging in a favorite treat: chocolate. Yet despite dark chocolate’s reputation as a healthier sweet, it can also be contaminated with lead ...

More than a dozen metals — including lead and arsenic — showed up in a broad array of tampons sold across the U.S. and Europe, raising concerns about menstruation products used by millions, a recent ...

New research adds to the evidence that certain cocoa products contain lead and cadmium. By Dani Blum New research published Wednesday found heavy metals in dark chocolate, the latest in a string of ...

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Consumer Reports, a nonprofit that conducts independent product testing, has found that three types of Lunchables sold in stores contain lead and other heavy metals. Kraft Heinz, the manufacturer of ...

When the Texas Department of State Health Services began identifying cancer clusters across Houston's historically Black Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens neighborhoods in 2019, the discovery kicked off ...

Testing is just beginning, but initial results confirm that the presence of lead and other hazardous metallic elements could bring scrutiny to electronics disposal and recycling methods. “Lead has the ...