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PHOENIX, AZ -- The following information was released by the Arizona Game and Fish Department: Arizona Game and Fish officers have recently issued citations to two individuals who brought quagga [...]

Fifty years ago last month, in March 1962, Dryden Chemicals began dumping an estimated 10 metric tonnes of mercury into the Wabigoon River, contaminating the fish which formed the subsistence [...]

OLYMPIA, WA -- The following information was released by the Washington State Department of Health: State health officials closed Samish Bay to shellfish harvest due to pollution for the second [...]

M2 PRESSWIRE-February 29, 2012-: Mercury tainted fish fillet fails test(C)1994-2012 M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE:29022012 A frozen fish fillet sample has failed Centre for Food Safety tests. The sample contained mercury, at [...]

Feb 29, 2012 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- A frozen fish fillet sample has failed Centre for Food Safety tests. The sample contained mercury, at a level of 1.27 parts [...]

Trenton -- The following information was released by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER): DEP Scientists' Questions Could Prompt Feds to Expand DuPont Cleanup Scope Trenton -- New Jersey state [...]

OLYMPIA, WA -- The following information was released by the Washington State Department of Ecology: The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) wants Washingtonians to take part in a statewide effort [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Maryland Senator Ben Cardin: U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife, [...]

SUMMARY: EPA has responsibilities for decontamination and waste disposal activities following a biological incident. The Incident Waste Management Planning and Response Tool 'IWMPRT' was developed partly to satisfy requirements assigned [...]

RESTON, VA -- The following information was released by the National Wildlife Federation: As a life-long fisherman, I get angry when I learn how many lakes and streams have been [...]

Madrid -- The following information was released by Oceana: Oceana is outraged by the Spanish Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs' repeated refusals to provide the reports [...]

LANSING, MI -- The following information was released by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ): State Reaches Agreement with Birds Eye Foods to Resolve Environmental Contamination Issues An agreement [...]

India, July 20 -- The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) today (July 20) advised the public not to eat a certain batch of Greatwall Brand Chopped Pork and Ham.Details of [...]

Hong Kong, July 20 -- Hong Kong SAR Government issued the following news release: The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) today (July 20) advised the public not to eat a [...]

Jul 12, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- SHANGHANG, Fujian, July 12 (Xinhua ) -- A copper mine has contaminated a river in east China's Fujian Province, causing a massive fish [...]

SHANGHANG, Fujian, Jul 12, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- 1st Ld-Writethru: Copper mine waste contaminates river, poisons fish in southeast China A copper mine has contaminated a river in east [...]

SHANGHANG, Fujian, Jul 12, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A sewage leakage from a copper mine has contaminated a local river in southeast China's Fujian Province, causing mass deaths of [...]

SHANGHANG, Fujian, Jul 12, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A sewage leakage from a copper mine has contaminated a local river in southeast China's Fujian Province, causing mass deaths of [...]

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As delegates from more than 100 countries today begin negotiating a treaty to control global mercury pollution, a coalition of environmental NGOs and indigenous [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is initiating a rulemaking to better protect the environment and public [...]

Byline: Meg Green HAMILTON, Bermuda, May 10, 2010 (A. M. Best via COMTEX) -- While workers continue their attempts to stem and contain the oil leaking in the Gulf of [...]

Byline: Ibrahim Shuaibu Kano, Sep 15, 2009 (This Day/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- No fewer than 40 people have fallen ill from gastro-enteritis with severe stomach pains in [...]

Citizens' groups say problem warrants immediate United Nations action WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the world's governments convene next week to discuss developing a legally binding treaty on mercury, [...]

OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Nov 3, 2008 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- In the wake of the listeriosis tragedy and as Canadians face a continuing crisis with tainted foods and unsafe products, the [...]

OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Nov 03, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- In the wake of the listeriosis tragedy and as Canadians face a continuing crisis with tainted foods and unsafe products, […]

CONCERNS about the contamination of seafood and fish by heavy metal pollutants in Europe's seas and oceans have been voiced by the European Environment Agency. Its report 'Hazardous substances in [...]

Nine years after the Harbor Oil property near Portland's Heron Lakes Golf Course became a federal Superfund cleanup site, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing not to clean it up [...]

Conventional sanitization technologies that target pathogenic contaminants on the surface of fresh produce only cause modest microbial inactivation. It is necessary to develop sound mitigation strategies to minimize health hazards [...]

FDA's Atlanta District issued a warning Jan. 27 to Kellogg Company, Battle Creek Mich., concerning the agency's inspection of the firm's frozen food manufacturing facility in Atlanta, Ga. During its [...]

THE developer of Pelican Cove has won partial approval from the state Department of Environmental Protection's Division of Coastal Resources: Yes to condominiums, no to a larger marina. Clammers in […]