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Synthetic Chemicals

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California

Brickbat: The (Artificial) Grass Is Greener

Charles Oliver | 11.6.2023 4:00 AM

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Drugs

A New Synthetic Opioid Is Killing American Drug Users 

But we can't ban our way out of the research chemical problem.

Mike Riggs | 5.12.2020 6:00 AM

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Food

A Lawsuit Says LaCroix Can't Be '100% Natural' Due to Naturally Occurring Chemicals

A lawsuit says that certain chemicals mean the sparkling water is not "all-natural."

Zuri Davis | 10.9.2018 10:55 AM

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Bisphenol-A

New York Times Columnist Is Worried About What's in His Urine

The FDA debunks his fears.

Ronald Bailey | 2.26.2018 2:45 PM

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Policy

Federal Judge Orders Withdrawal of Fraudulent Chobani Yogurt Ads

The company implied that sucralose and potassium sorbate made competing products unsafe for human consumption.

Jacob Sullum | 2.2.2016 10:10 AM

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BPA

BPA Safe: Yet Another Scientifically Unfounded Environmentalist Scare Bites the Dust

European Food Safety Authority finds "no consumer health risk from bisphenol-A exposure."

Ronald Bailey | 1.21.2015 11:31 AM

Cancer

Cancer Incidence Rate Continues Downward And So Does Cancer Mortality

Ronald Bailey | 1.9.2014 12:50 PM

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