U.S. Right to Know articles

Even extremely small amounts of the herbicide glyphosate can harm gut health, disrupt metabolism, and change behavior in mice, scientists say. The effects aren't limited to the exposed animals—they pass on to their children and grandchildren.

Comprehensive review linking widespread glyphosate exposure to cancer, liver/kidney disease, endocrine and neurotoxicity, reproductive harm, microbiome disruption and regulatory controversy worldwide.

A sweeping new review warns that chemicals in common plastics pose serious and lasting health risks to children, from before birth through adulthood.

Urgent action is needed to protect public health from alcohol industry influence and to curb alcohol-related disease and death, according to international researchers.  

A leading molecular geneticist explains how his research challenges claims that GMOs are “substantially equivalent” to non-GMOs — the foundation of U.S. regulations for GMOs — and how regulators are ignoring modern scientific tests and methods that can help us better understand health risks of GMOs and pesticides.

Investigation shows the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics accepts funding, investments, and leadership ties to ultra-processed food, pesticide and pharma industries, raising conflicts that may harm public health.

Pesticides banned years ago in the European Union are drifting through the skies and turning up in clouds above France, raising concerns about how long these toxins persist and how far they can travel, with potentially harmful global health impacts, according to a pathbreaking new study.

Professor Michael Antoniou, head of the Gene Expression and Therapy Group at King’s College London, describes how regulators are ignoring the health risks of stacked-trait GMOs and the combined toxicity of pesticide mixtures.

Common chemicals in plastics, personal care products, and food packaging may drive the onset, growth, and spread of breast cancer—the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in women, new research suggests.

Cardiovascular disease—the world's leading cause of death—is increasingly driven by polluted air, toxic chemicals, plastics, noise, and extreme temperatures, according to a sweeping new review...

Children, adolescents, and young adults who vape are about three times more likely to start smoking cigarettes than non-users, according to the most comprehensive study yet on the wider risks of e-cigarette use in young people.

Aspartame—the artificial sweetener found in everything from Diet Coke and sugar-free chewing gum to children's medications—may raise the risk of the most common type of stroke by causing inflammation and disrupting blood vessel health and blood flow, according to new research.

Even very low levels of nitrate in drinking water—far below the federal government’s safety threshold—may significantly increase the risk of premature birth and low birth weight, according to a new study.

Dicamba, a widely used herbicide linked to crop damage and health concerns, faces legal challenges as the EPA moves to re-register it despite studies tying it to cancer, hypothyroidism, and rising residues.

The majority of donors to the World Health Organization Foundation, including some unnamed gifts as big as $11 million, are not publicly disclosed, a new analysis has found.

Evidence links rising ultra-processed food consumption to higher risks of multiple cancers—especially colorectal, ovarian, breast—and tumor growth mechanisms tied to sugar and animal-based UPFs.

In the United States, around half of the food that people eat every day is ultra-processed—industrially manufactured products, like chips or candy, that are made by breaking down whole foods, modifying and combining them with additives to make them more attractive.

The chemicals in microplastics cause a plethora of health impacts including harming people’s hormonal systems leading to infertility, and neurological and behavior disorders among other issues, says a new review which unpacks the mechanisms of how plastics harm health.

Comprehensive overview of PFAS risks, exposures, industry concealment, research findings, and regulatory actions to limit widespread 'forever chemicals' in water, food, products and communities.

Unhealthy food and beverage companies powerfully undermine the eating habits of young people by deploying ubiquitous ads that encourage poor dietary choices and increase the risk of serious disease and premature death, according to a sweeping new study.

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs)—substances that interfere with the body’s hormone systems—may contribute to a wide range of female reproductive health problems, including reduced fertility, early or delayed puberty, premature menopause, and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), according to a new review of more than 250 human and animal studies.

Diquat, an herbicide banned in the European Union but still widely used in the U.S., damages the intestines and may also trigger a harmful chain reaction in the rest of the body—injuring the liver, kidney, and lungs, according to a new review of more than 100 studies.

Extensive evidence links sucralose (Splenda) to metabolic, reproductive, genotoxic and microbiome harms, while marketing and regulatory actions have downplayed risks.

Titanium dioxide is the most widely used whitening pigment in the world and has been linked to adverse health effects, particularly genotoxicity and intestinal inflammation.

The tiniest particles of titanium dioxide—commonly used to make ultra-processed foods look more visually appealing—can raise blood sugar levels and impair how the body processes glucose, among other health harms, according to new research in mice.