The state has a new effort to protect low-income pregnant women and their babies from arsenic exposure using the WIC food assistance program. The program will give out water pitchers with a three-year ...

Pregnant women have been advised to use water filters by experts who spoke to Newsweek after a study found levels of arsenic in water systems considered safe are impacting birth outcomes, A national ...

A community-led water-testing project made up of households that rely on private well water with high arsenic levels saw on average a 47 percent drop in participants’ urinary arsenic levels after ...

Arsenic’s potent effect on humans has been known since at least the Roman Empire. For centuries, it was a popular poison for murderers because it can’t be seen, smelled or tasted in food or water.

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (CN) – Proctor & Gamble’s and Omnipure’s “activated carbon” filters release arsenic into water and the companies are not warning consumer of it, the Center for Environmental Health ...

Arsenic is a nasty poison that once reigned as the ultimate weapon of deception. In the 18th century, it was the poison of choice for those wanting to kill their enemies and spouses, favoured for its ...