Consumers' food health and safety may be affected by the presence of micro-organisms and toxic substances in foodstuffs. The cause of the presence of toxic substances in food is sometimes due to the ...

Editor’s Note (7/7/23): This story is being republished after a new study from the U.S. Geological Survey found that chemicals called perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl substances, or ...

IT has been reported elsewhere 1 that organic nitrogen in plant materials, soil organic matter and extracted proteins undergoes partial oxidation to nitrate on treatment with a mixture of sulphuric ...

Considerable study has been done on methane oxidation to yield methanol, used in producing valuable substances like formaldehyde, dimethyl ether, and more. Yet, methane remains the most challenging ...