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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Potash and phosphate are often tied together. After all, both are used to produce fertilizers, which are becoming increasingly important as demand for food grows on a global scale. However, potash and ...

Phosphate is mainly used in the form of fertilizer for crops and animal feed supplements. Only 5 percent of world phosphate production is used for other applications, such as corrosion prevention and ...

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 ...