Science-based harmonization of food safety standards, especially those related to food additives, would have avoided this contamination incident altogether.

Sampling and sample preparation are crucial operations in the analytical determination of chemical contaminants.

Contamination and adulteration both may involve the presence of a substance that is not intended to be in a product.

In the 1990s, FDA undertook additional efforts to ban or restrict uses of lead in association with food.

FDA has strict standards of quality and clear standards of identity for bottled water that protect consumers.

The acrylamide issue regarding food safety refuses to die no matter how many times food scientists shoot it down.

Emerging chemical contaminants are associated with numerous wide-ranging and overlapping environmental issues.