The lab theory did not gain much traction. “Introduction through a laboratory incident was considered to be an extremely unlikely pathway,” the report concluded. Mao Ning, the foreign ministry ...

In 2023, a classified report from the Department of Energy reportedly concluded with low confidence the virus originated from a lab. That same year, the FBI also said a lab leak was more plausible ...

On January 15, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned Red No. 3 — a synthetic, petroleum-based dye mostly found in candy ... experiment with more natural food colorings too. For example, a ...

Spencer Platt/Getty Images But the idea that the virus might have originated in a lab never went away. A report made by the U.S. Department of Energy two years ago, which was not publicly released ...

The Central Intelligence Agency said Saturday that it’s more likely a lab leak caused the Covid-19 pandemic than an infected animal that spread the virus to people, changing the agency’s ...

A bombshell new report from the CIA says the agency is now backing the COVID-19 “lab leak” theory - but admits “low confidence” in the finding. The distinction was made in a report ...

the report states. But the intelligence community has been unable to determine with high confidence whether the pandemic originated from a lab leak or occurred in the wild, and has remained ...

Harmonizing global standards on regulating and evaluating synthetic dyes is essential to protect consumer health. Several companies selling ultra-processed foods have begun the shift away from ...

But the agency issued a new assessment last week, with analysts saying they now favor the lab theory. There is no new intelligence behind the agency’s shift, officials said. Rather it is based ...