2B or Not 2B? That Was the Question for Aspartame

In March 2015, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) designated glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, as "probably carcinogenic to humans" (Group ...

Emerging Damage: The Case of Melamine

Emerging risks evolve through three phases: emerging interest, emerging damage and emerging litigation. During the "emerging interest" phase, scientists, regulators or legal scholars first flag the ...

Risk Alert: Is Water Making Us Fat?

Drinking water: a commodity so abundant in modern society that we rarely give it much thought. At least until recently with two dramatic discoveries. First, the discovery of lead-contaminated water ...