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Pass the Orange Tomato Sauce Please

...fically bred by the scientists of the university’s agricultural research station. These are not available commercially yet, but scientists recommend to those willing to go the extra mile, to look for orange or golden colored heirloom tomatoes-though they have not conducted studies on these yet. They believe that ...

Weed Killer Plays a Pivotal Role in Those With Genetic Vulnerability to Parkinson’

... find that may make people even more wary of using agricultural chemicals in their gardens or farms//. Paraquat, a common chemical weed killer could be the hidden hand behind those suffering with Parkinson’s disease, at least those with certain genes that render them susceptible to one of the world’s most com...

India, China Trying to Fight Disease With Nanotechnology

...storage, production and conversion; enhancement of agricultural productivity; water treatment and remediation; and the diagnosis and treatment of disease. In the US, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) has formed the Nanotechnology Alliance for Cancer to move more quickly mol...

Unique Tomatoes Tops In Disease-Fighting Antioxidants

...he tomatoes were grown at an Ohio State-affiliated agricultural research station in northwestern Ohio. Following harvest, both tomato varieties were immediately processed into canned tomato juice and concentrated. Italian seasoning was added for taste. The 12 adults participating in the study ate two spaghetti t...

Russia’s Avian Flu Outbreak Linked to Single Marke

...gistered last month in the Krasnodar territory, an agricultural region near the Black Sea. The H5N1 strain has killed at least 167 people worldwide since it began ravaging Asian poultry farms in late 2003, according to the World Health Organization. Though it remains difficult for humans to catch, health auth...

Crushed Garlic Has Health Benefits

...ral and Food Chemistry. Claudio Galmarini of the agricultural sciences faculty at Argentina's Universidad Nacional de Cuyo and other researchers found that garlic cooked for three minutes in boiling water or in an oven at about 400 degrees Fahrenheit has the same amount of the anti-clotting compounds as raw gar...

Nigeria Donates $10 Million to Global Fund's Fight Against Pandemics

...he potential to damage our social fabric, diminish agricultural and industrial production, undermine political, social and economic stability, and contribute to national, regional and global insecurity". He said Nigeria had scaled up interventions from prevention through to treatment, support, care and mitigati...

Researchers Improve Soy Processing by Boosting Protein and Sugar Yields

...avid Grewell, an Iowa State assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering; Stephanie Jung, an Iowa State assistant professor of food science and human nutrition; and Buddhi Lamsal, a senior scientist at Kansas State University in Manhattan. Larry Johnson, the director of Iowa State's Center for C...

To Russia With Love-Bird Flu Strikes

... Aleksei Alekseyenko, an official at the country's agricultural inspection agency. "A series of anti-epizootic measures are being undertaken in the unfortunate areas to control the infection,” adds the official. Earlier Monday, the European Commission had confirmed the first outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird f...

IRS Helps Curb Malaria in the Tropics

...emical DDT, which was banned in many countries for agricultural use out of concern that it could poison food supplies. However, Lluberas says, “[Indoor Residual Spraying] is safe. First of all, the population is just receiving the protection, not applying anything and the toxicity is very, very low for humans, ...

Karnataka's Free Health Insurance to the Poor

...hief minister spent Tuesday night with a family of agricultural labourers, in which two members have been tested positive for AIDS - to "instill confidence and dispel stigma" attached to the disease. Source-IANS...

Act Now To Cleanse Highly Polluted River Hindon, Says Study

...pesticides released both from factories as well as agricultural run off from the fields, says the report released by Janhit Foundation. The foundation is an independent, not-for-profit NGO actively engaged in the promotion of human welfare through environmental protection. The report's author is Heather Lewis, a...

Ex-workers Ask HLL to Accept Liability for Mercury Deaths

...affers alleged. The owner was allowed to convert agricultural land for industrial use and set up shop on a bluff whose slopes drained into the perennial Pamban River through the Shola forests of the Palani-Nilgiri ranges, they added. According to the former employees, in 16 years of operation, HLL and its pr...

Plum School Students Set the Trend in Healthy Eating

.... An ersatz fat ‘Z-Trim’ produced naturally from agricultural by-products such as hulls of oats, soybeans, peas and rice, or bran from corn or wheat has been used in school meals to cut down calories while preserving a favorable ‘mouth feel’. Scientists of U.S Department of Agriculture have designed the addit...

Bird Flu Suspected in Japan

...f bird flu here.// This has been reported to the agricultural ministry and tests have been carried out immediately. Results should be out latest by Friday evening. If bird flu is confirmed, then it would commence the destroying of the remaining birds. The farm in question has around 12000 chickens. Adequate ...

Corporate Inc Awakening To Economic Impact Of HIV

...impact being especially severe on those engaged in agricultural labour." "This is on account of job losses or leave of absence for people living with HIV/AIDS and their care-givers," said NCAER Director-General Suman K. Bery, presenting the study. Two-thirds of households surveyed, and 77 percent of those in ag...

Chlorpyrifos Affects Mental Development of Foetus

...esidential use in 2001, is still widely applied to agricultural crops in the U.S. and abroad, including many fruit...an on residential use of chlorpyrifos in the U.S., agricultural applications continue in the U.S. and abroad." Frederica Perera, DrPH, director of the Columbia Ce...

Dairy Farmers, Cheesed Off Over Revenue Loss from WIC Program

... farmers.//The government, intends to acquire more agricultural products in order to provide low income group families more veggies to balance their nutritional requirements. The Department of Agriculture has decided to add vegetables, fruits and whole grains to the Women Infants and Children (WIC) program. To ...

Hong Kong to Tighten Food Safety Laws

...med in Hong Kong, a densely-populated city with no agricultural industry, are imported from neighboring China. Source-IANS...

USDA Gives Go-Ahead to Market Controversial Genetically Engineered Rice, LL601

... Food Safety,” With this decision, USDA is telling agricultural biotechnology companies that it doesn't matter if you're negligent, if you break the rules, if you contaminate the food supply with untested genetically engineered crops, we'll bail you out. In effect, USDA is sanctioning an 'approval-by-contaminatio...

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