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Allergy Alert on Undeclared Peanuts in Mayfield Turtle Tracks Ice Cream

...d product was produced at the Mayfield Dairy Farms plant in Athens, Tennessee and distributed to retail sto...1.75 quart cartons with a code date of 4/11/08 and plant code of 47225 are involved in the recall. Consumers should look for this information on the side of ...

Ammonia Gas Leaks from Plant, Causes Breathing Problems

...-owned Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore (FACT) plant at Ambalmugal near here late Thursday, causing breathing problems among local residents. The factory said later the leak had been rectified. FACT officials said the leak was detected around 8 p.m. and was rectified. However, with the gas escapin...

Beef Firm in US Withdraws Its Products from Markets After E. Coli Outbreak.

...far is, the tainted beef had come from the PM Beef plant in Windom in Minnesota. The question, that is being looked into, is whether the tainted beef was supplied to more grocery stores and other retail outlets across the country. Brian Hanif of the Cerro Gordo County Department of Public Health,said the...

Scientists Saying Against Trees Sparks Debate

...uld diffuse out and be counted as "emitted" by the plant in their experiment. But Keppler rejects this, saying that this sort of methane desorption could only be partially responsible for the amounts of gas he found. Indeed, he suggests that Dueck's use of heavy isotopes may have actually changed the p...

Intake of Polyphenol Speeds Up Fatty Acid Catabolism

...ory protein SIRT1. Polyphenols are substances of plant origin that occur in numerous fruits and vegetables. Due to their possible health effect, polyphenols are currently sold as nutritional supplements. The study was conducted by Vincent de Boer at RIKILT - Institute of Food Safety in Wageningen, Neth...

Extinction Risk of Grazing Animals Depends on Reproductive Speed

... on the local ecology. These animals help disperse plant seeds through their manure and keep plant growth in check. You can completely change the ecosystem without knowing it if you hunt these animal...

Soy Products a Double-edged Sword for Breast Cancer

...ting the health effects of isoflavones, a class of plant estrogens present in high concentrations in soy. M...lls. Dozens of studies of the role of human and plant estrogens in breast cancer have yielded seemingly contradictory findings. Some found that feeding ge...

Poisoned Workers of Hindustan Lever Demand Treatment

...sed down permanently its controversial thermometer plant at Kodaikanal six years ago in the wake of allegations by environmental activists that it was polluting the environment of the hill station. But workers exposed to mercury poisoning when it was operational are struggling to cope with their shattere...

Invasion of Cicada Hordes Feared in US Midwest

...giving for them," said Tom Tiddens, supervisor for plant health care at the Chicago Botanic Garden. As nymphs burrowing underground, cicadas suck sap from tree roots. Almost all members of a group, or brood, burst from the ground within a couple days of each other. They quickly climb the nearest vertic...

Green Tea may Protect the Bladder from Becoming Inflamed

... medical conditions. It is comprised of catechins plant metabolites that provide it with many anti-oxidative properties. "We discovered that catechins found in green tea protected both normal and cancerous bladder cells from inflammation when we exposed the cells to hydrogen peroxide," said Michael B. C...

Veterans Exposed to Agent Orange Increased Risk of Prostate Cancer Recurrence

...higher mortality rates have been found in chemical plant workers and farmers with prostate cancer who were exposed to dioxin, the researchers write in their abstract. Dioxins impact is dose-related, and while the researchers did not measure levels of dioxin or Agent Orange, they suspect that blacks, who ...

Climate Change Threatening to Wipe Out Wild Relatives of Key Crops

...ch as pest resistance and drought tolerance, which plant breeders use to improve the performance of cultiva...h headquarters in Rome. "The irony here is that plant breeders will be relying on wild relatives more than ever as they work to develop domesticated crops...

Are Main Rivers in Himalayas Under Threat?

... New Delhi and America's CIA formed an alliance to plant a nuclear-powered sensing device on the Nanda Devi...G-7 Summit in London in 1991, the group decided to plant a "weather robot" on the 8,848-metre peak to record weather changes. In 1993, climbers from the To...

Climate Change Reorganized Tibetan Culture 700 Years Ago: Study

... rely on snowmelt for irrigation will be forced to plant their crops earlier, before the start of the traditional growing season. "Water conflicts are likely to increase in the future as problems of this kind worsen," he noted....

Compound Present in Plant may Help to Curb Craving for Cannabis

...entists has shown that a compound extracted from a plant from the buttercup family has the ability to reduc...n Drug Abuse found that upon administration of the plant extract, the rodents lose their hankering for a synthetic version of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), an ...

Astronauts can Now Feed on 'radiation-eating' Fungi

...ngal kingdom comprises more species than any other plant or animal kingdom, so finding that they're making food in addition to breaking it down means that Earth's energeticsin particular, the amount of radiation energy being converted to biological energymay need to be recalculated," says Casadevall. "Si...

Fire Ants are Emerging Nuisance for Virginians

... both crops and livestock. They feed on almost any plant or animal material, alive or dead, and are known to damage more than 50 cultivated plants such as corn, sorghum, and soybeans by feeding on germinating seeds. The fire ants can also damage developing fruit and flower buds on tomatoes and other plants...

Multinationals Exploit Groundwater Sources, and People Suffer

...chigan, where Nestl opened a spring water bottling plant a few years ago, locals have yet to see the promis... some of which is threatened or endangered." The plant will also affect not just the McCloud River but an entire watershed, reducing stream flow to the McC...

Cuba is Exporting Healthcare Now

...ened by the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the Ukraine. It isn't only in times of disaster that Cuban health care workers get involved. Some 29,000 Cuban health professionals are now practicing in 69 countries -- mostly in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. In Venezuela, about 20,...

FDA Approves Divigel(R) for Treatment of Hot Flashes Linked With Menopause

...hem." The estrogen in Divigel(R) is derived from plant sources and is identical to the primary estrogen produced by a woman's ovaries before menopause. Certain older oral estrogen therapies contain conjugated estrogens derived from the urine of pregnant mares. Divigel(R) is a quick-drying gel that is odo...

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