A study of herbal kelp supplements led by UC Davis public health expert Marc Schenker concludes that its medicinal use may cause inadvertent arsenic poisoning and health dangers for consumers, ...

A company in east China's Shandong province recently cooperated with Shandong Normal University to extract organic iodine from kelp, a result deemed important to eradicating diseases caused by lack of ...

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-- There's a new effort on Long Island to treat golf course fairways with organic kelp instead of pesticides. Sugar kelp is one of 30 varieties of large brown and green seaweed growing ...

Recent events in Japan, with the earthquake, the tsunami, and the subsequent nuclear reactor crisis, have made all of us much more aware of the potential for exposure to excess environmental radiation ...

Kelp, often referred to as the king of seaweed, is a type of brown algae that thrives in underwater forests around the world. While it may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about ...

PRODUCE SAFETY CENTER: UC Davis last week announced the establishment of the Center for Produce Safety, using $4 million in private funding — half from the Produce Marketing Association and half from ...

Every fertilizer package has a so-called “NPK” listing representing the percentage of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (which are the primary essential elements needed by plants) on the front of the ...

At its core, the Purification Treatment relies on NoTox®, an innovative technology devised by TARAMAR that extracts the potent skin rejuvenating properties of this oceanic wonder. The result is the ...

Daniel C. Reed, Craig A. Carlson, Elisa R. Halewood, J. Clinton Nelson, Shannon L. Harrer, Andrew Rassweiler, Robert J. Miller Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 60, No. 6 (2015), pp. 1996-2008 (13 ...