Phosphate has been dominating the news in Florida for several days since the breach at a wastewater reservoir in Manatee County forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes. Phosphate is a key ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A flavor-boosting additive is raising new health concerns. It's an ingredient common in processed foods - but manufacturers do not have to tell you how much is added. Most of us have ...

One of the largest fertilizer manufacturing plants in the world sits about six miles southwest of the Polk County hamlet of Mulberry, with its entrance in walking distance of the Hillsborough County ...

Processed foods like cereal may contain trisodium phosphate, a food additive. Consuming small amounts of trisodium phosphate is most likely safe. But excessive consumption can lead to unhealthy levels ...

DC Comics’ Doctor Phosphorus clearly suffers from a damaging excess of his namesake mineral! When he (as Dr. Alexander James Sartorius) was exposed to a nuclear reactor’s core material, his body was ...

Phosphate is growing as a commodity because of its use in batteries and fertilizer. The phosphate market is expected to witness a compound annual growth rate of 5% between 2022 and 2028 primarily ...

Excess phosphate in the blood is known as hyperphosphatemia. The most common cause is kidney disease, but other conditions can also cause phosphate levels to be out of balance. Phosphate is a chemical ...

Unfortunately for companies marketing automatic dishwasher, or ADW, detergents, the story didn’t end there. Although fish might be happy that there are now less phosphorus-fed algae in rivers and ...

Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase I (CPS1) deficiency (CPS1D), a rare type of urea cycle disorder (UCD), arises from an inborn error of metabolism. It is a genetic ...

A graduate student surveys one of the apatite- or phosphate-bearing rocks in Rogaland, Norway, forming the Bjerkreim-Sokndal layered intrusion. The rock contains several important minerals. (Axel ...