It's sometimes better to do something boring or difficult preemptively than take risks on what might happen later.

French investigators are examining the death of a third baby who had consumed infant formula covered by precautionary recalls, the French health ministry said on Wednesday.

The Aston Martin AMR26’s track debut came to an end after five laps, as a technical issue forced a precautionary stop on the circuit. The penultimate day of the Barcelona test saw the long-awaited ...

The precautionary principle is supposed to be used in some circumstances when one "lacks scientific certainty." The emerging dialogue over the precise meaning of this principle is non-scientific ...

In 2007, a dense winter inversion became a watershed moment in exposing Wasatch Front air pollution as a pernicious plague. For thousands, day after day over six weeks, breathing was a struggle. As ...

The environmental risk assessment community currently faces an existential dilemma. Policy mandates increasingly encourage transformation of the traditional risk assessment paradigm: a shift away from ...

Lake Mary said a precautionary boil-water notice has been issued after a water main broke in the city on Tuesday.The city advises that all water used for drinking, cooking, making ice, brushing teeth ...

(via Kite & Key) The world is a dangerous place and Americans often rely on others — the people at the USDA who monitor the food supply, the people at the FDA who regulate pharmaceuticals — to keep us ...

The governance approaches for biotechnological risks mainly include the laissez-faire approach, which emphasizes “technology first” but suffers from lagging governance; the preventive approach, which ...