Deadly morel mushroom outbreak highlights big gaps in fungi knowledge ~food Article 753 words 20 votes
I’m a microbiologist and here is what (and where) I never eat ~food Article 1100 words, published Oct 4 2023 27 votes
Lead poisoning could be killing more people than HIV, malaria, and car accidents combined ~health Article 1179 words 18 votes
Canadian officials investigate E. coli outbreak at Calgary daycares served by one central kitchen ~health Article 540 words 10 votes
Kidney failure, emergency rooms and medical debt: The unseen costs of food poisoning ~health healthcare Article 2581 words 3 votes
How ‘The Monster with 21 Faces’ terrorized Japan during the harrowing Glico Morinaga candy incident ~humanities.history Article 1169 words 10 votes
Leading baby food manufacturers knowingly sold products with high levels of toxic metals, a US Congress investigation has found ~food Article 11 votes
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny setenced to prison for 3½ years for violating the terms of his probation while he was recuperating in Germany from nerve-agent poisoning ~news russia politics crime Article 1021 words 21 votes
"If it hadn't been for the prompt work of the medics": FSB officer inadvertently confesses murder plot to Alexei Navalny ~news russia politics Article 5176 words 30 votes
FSB team of chemical weapon experts implicated in Alexey Navalny Novichok poisoning ~news russia politics Article 7009 words 13 votes
Twenty-five people have been taken to hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning after attending an illegal rave in a bunker in the Norwegian capital, Oslo ~health Article 189 words 9 votes
A lawyer who represented hundreds of victims in the Jack in the Box E coli case in the 1990s is now taking aim at salmonella, which over the past decade has become the most dangerous bacteria in meat ~food meat restaurants Article 2198 words 7 votes
New Orleans has failed over the last decade to do urgently needed lead testing, and then buried a 2017 report that would have alerted the public to the lapse ~enviro pollution.water Article 3962 words 11 votes
What happened to “Rhode Island’s plan to eliminate childhood lead poisoning by 2010” and what comes next? ~health Article 2010 words 6 votes
Newark, NJ: Inside America's latest lead water crisis ~enviro water.drinking pollution.water Article 1285 words 6 votes
CDC food safety alert: Outbreak of E. coli infections linked to romaine lettuce in US and Canada ~food Link 7 votes
Putin's 'tourist' accused of nerve agent attack turns out to be a highly decorated Russian intelligence officer ~news russia united kingdom.salisbury politics Article 581 words 14 votes
The real identity of one of the Salisbury Novichok poisoning suspects is revealed by an investigative website ~news russia united kingdom.salisbury politics Article 85 words 7 votes
Skripal case: Russian 'spies' targeted Swiss chemical weapons lab ~news russia switzerland united kingdom.salisbury Article 404 words 8 votes
Skripal poisoning: Putin says suspects 'civilians, not criminals' ~news russia united kingdom.salisbury politics Article 130 words 6 votes
UK to face Russia at UN spy case briefing ~news russia united kingdom politics Article 1077 words 9 votes