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The strongest human evidence tying specific preservatives to cancers comes from large prospective cohort analyses, which report modest but statistically significant associations between certain additi...
Major public-health bodies find little direct evidence that radiofrequency (RF) emissions from cell towers cause cancer in people; the FCC and American Cancer Society say there is “very little evidenc...
Aspartame and acesulfame potassium (Ace‑K) remain approved for use and widely considered safe by major regulators when consumed below established Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) levels, but scientific d...
Scientific opinion on glyphosate is sharply divided: multiple recent animal and review studies report cancer, neurotoxicity, reproductive and microbiome harms from glyphosate or glyphosate‑based herbi...
Peer‑reviewed human studies directly linking genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to specific health problems are sparse; most peer‑reviewed research that raises health concerns is either animal stud...
in the body over years and is best addressed by stopping further exposure, confirming body burden with appropriate testing, and then using medically supervised removal strategies such as or emerging o...
A sustained review of the literature and expert statements finds no credible evidence that the sound, infrasound, low-frequency noise, or electromagnetic fields () produced by modern wind turbines cau...
The evidence consistently shows that consumption increases the risk of and is classified by as carcinogenic to humans, while is considered probably carcinogenic and linked to modest increases in sever...
Regulators worldwide have tightened limits on in processed meats by lowering maximum permitted levels, specifying product categories, and pushing monitoring and reformulation — with the cutting many l...
Microwaves in ovens and many devices emit non‑ionizing electromagnetic radiation that heats tissue the way it heats food; regulatory agencies say ovens that meet safety standards and are used properly...
Drinking one 5-ounce glass of wine daily is linked to a small but measurable increase in risk for certain cancers — most consistently breast cancer — while evidence for many other cancer types is mixe...
Cancer registries and operate on different strengths: registries provide high-quality, population‑level, long‑term incidence and survival data, while vaccine surveillance systems collect near‑real‑tim...
The question “” has no single settled answer: a major cancer agency, , classed glyphosate as “” in 2015 based on limited human evidence and sufficient animal evidence , while regulators including the ...
Epidemiological and toxicological research increasingly ties —especially occupational and high, mixed exposures—to a range of cancers, with the strongest and most consistent signals for non‑Hodgkin ly...
emit low-power, non‑ionizing radiofrequency (RF) signals that mainstream health organizations and multiple reviews say have not been proven to cause cancer or brain injury in humans . Emerging, limite...
The IARC 2015 classification that processed meat is “carcinogenic to humans” (Group 1) and red meat “probably carcinogenic” (Group 2A) rested chiefly on a large body of epidemiological evidence — hund...
The best human evidence to date links higher urinary glyphosate concentrations with increased urinary biomarkers of oxidative stress—not with proven causation of cancer in individuals—based largely on...
The weight of major scientific reviews and public-health agencies concludes that genetically modified (GM) ingredients on the market do not, as a class, present proven unique hazards to human health, ...
Scientific debate is active: several recent reviews and meta-analyses find small, sometimes protective associations between light-to-moderate wine drinking and cardiovascular outcomes, but major publi...
Outdoor athletes can face elevated long‑term cancer risks where ambient air pollution—especially PM2.5, PM10, NO2/NOx and ozone—is high, because those pollutants are linked to lung and some non‑lung c...