When deciding whether or not to regulate a chemical, regulatory bodies often evaluate the degree to which the public may be exposed by evaluating the chemical’s occurrence in food and drinking water.

Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) add empty calories to children’s diets1 and may increase the risk of weight gain, obesity, and diabetes.

Extreme heat at work combined with chronic dehydration is a proven risk factor for chronic kidney disease among farm, construction and factory workers.

Losing just 1-2% of your body’s water is enough to affect attention, short-term memory and reaction time, and the research on it is consistent.

The aquatic environment can contain numerous micropollutants and there are concerns about endocrine activity in environmental waters and what that might mean for human and ecosystem health.

In this study, we conducted a worst-case risk exploratory assessment for children’s health from ingestion exposure to water sources in two densely populated counties.

Finished water storage tanks are an overlooked weak point in distribution systems, where stagnation, residual decay and biofilm can degrade water quality.

At present one of the greatest barriers to reducing exposure to naturally occurring arsenic from unregulated private well water is a lack of well testing.

For several decades, a common processing aid in the production of fluoropolymers was the ammonium salt of perfluorooctanoic acid.

Giardia duodenalis is the most common intestinal parasite of humans in the USA, but the risk factors for sporadic (non-outbreak) giardiasis are not well described.